page_title: Rossington
section_title: Colliery
hierarchical_section_title: Rossington / History / Colliery
caption_attribution_description: English: Rossington Colliery. This pit is now "mothballed" and we all know what that probably means. Pity, as Rossington coal burns very well in our boiler at Claymills Pumping Station. This is a difficult location to get to and required a bit of a walk for what I consider to be a rather indifferent picture for a late afternoon in August(not a GOTY candidate).
context_page_description: Rossington is a civil parish and former mining village in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster in South Yorkshire, England and is surrounded by countryside and the market towns of Bawtry and Tickhill.
context_section_description: It was, however, in the mid-20th century that saw the largest expansion of the area. The pit was sunk between 1912 and 1915 The need for workers in and around the Rossington Main Colliery led to the building of large numbers of houses near to the pit in what was called New Rossington. After the end of British Coal in the early 1990s, the mine was able to keep operating and became one of the last in the area to keep producing coal albeit at a greatly reduced scale. However, with the decline of the mine, the village suffered high levels of unemployment and poverty throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. The colliery closed briefly between 1993 and 1994 before finally closing in 2007. In 2012 a coal reclamation project started on the Rossington Colliery spoil tip, this is expected to take up to 5 years to complete.
  In September 2012 planning permission was given by the borough council to build a £100 million, 1,200 home, housing development including a primary school and hotel on the colliery site. Construction of houses on the site began in May 2015.
caption: Rossington Main Colliery
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