Cortonwood Collieries Co
near Rotherham
Cortonwood colliery was sunk in 1873, a year after the formation of the Brampton Colliery Company, which took its name from the local parish of Brampton Bierlow, near Rotherham.
In March 1984, when the price of coking coal had fallen dramatically, the National Coal Board announced that the mine was due to close, due to the large stocks of coking coal that the colliery had produced.
