Shireoaks Colliery was a coal mine situated on the edge of the village of Shireoaks, near Worksop in North Nottinghamshire, close by the Yorkshire border. Shireoaks is a former Pit village between Worksop and Thorpe Salvin, England. Worksop is a town in the Bassetlaw district of Nottinghamshire, England on the River Ryton at the northern edge of Sherwood Forest
The Duke of Newcastle owned mineral rights in much of North Nottinghamshire and the original shaft was sunk in 1861. Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne is a title which has been created three times in British history while the title of Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne has been created once Year 1861 ( MDCCCLXI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Although the colliery was situated adjacent to the main line of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, an agreement was reached with the railway company, as owners of the Chesterfield Canal, for a short link to serve the colliery and to ship coal to the River Trent at West Stockwith. The Manchester Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (MS&LR was formed by amalgamation in 1847 The Chesterfield Canal is in the north of England. It was opened in 1777 and ran 46 miles (74 km from the River Trent at West Stockwith,
The Shireoaks Colliery Company was formed in 1867 and, in due course, had mining interests throughout the area, including those at Steetley and Whitwell.
In 1917 the colliery company gained a lease from the Estates of the 10th Duke of Leeds to mine top hard coal from below the villages of North Anston, South Anston and Thorpe Salvin. Year 1917 ( MCMXVII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year The title Duke of Leeds was created in 1694 for the 1st Marquess of Carmarthen and became extinct on the death of the 12th Duke in 1964 The Villages of North Anston and South Anston are the principal constituents of the Civil parish of North and South Anston, in the Metropolitan The Villages of North Anston and South Anston are the principal constituents of the Civil parish of North and South Anston, in the Metropolitan Thorpe Salvin is a village and a Civil parish in the metropolitan borough of Rotherham (part of South Yorkshire, England) on the border
In 1945, the Shireoaks Colliery Company was sold to United Steel Companies and on nationalisation came under the control of the National Coal Board. Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar The United Steel Companies were a steel making engineering coal mining and coal by-product group based in South Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. The National Coal Board (NCB was the Statutory Corporation created to run the nationalised Coal mining industry in Britain. The pit closed in 1991