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at Calder Grove passed through Netherton. It passed the hamlet of Little London on South Lane where the company owned the Victoria Pit. The Prince of Wales Pit, locally known as Wood Pit, was sunk near the line near New Hall Wood in 1870 and its shaft was deepened and widened in 1882. A second shaft
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was driven in 1926 and another 30 years later. At nationalisation in 1947 the pit was named Denby Grange (Prince of Wales). It merged with Caphouse Colliery in 1981 and closed in August 1991. Its site is now occupied by Earnshaws who have operated a timber business in Midgley since 1860.
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Hartley Bank Colliery was sunk in 1872 on the south side of the Calder and Hebble Navigation and closed in 1968. A disaster in May 1924 when
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axe was found near the Star Inn in 1963. Shitlington was probably settled in Anglo-Saxon times and was recorded in the
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Netherton, originally Nether Shitlington was, with Over Shitlington (
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to Midgley, the B6117, on a hill above the valley of the
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of Shitlington in the ancient ecclesiastical parish of
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Netherton is located in West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire
OS grid reference
SE2716
Metropolitan borough
City of Wakefield
Metropolitan county
West Yorkshire
Region
Yorkshire and the Humber
Country
England
Sovereign state
Post town
Postcode district
WF4
Dialling code
Police
West Yorkshire
Fire
West Yorkshire
Ambulance
Yorkshire
UK Parliament
Wakefield
UK
England
Yorkshire
53°38′38″N 1°34′44″W / 53.644°N 1.579°W / 53.644; -1.579

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