Until the coming of the colliery Dinnington was a mainly agricultural village with a small amount of quarrying in the area.
[1] In 1899 preparations were being made by the Sheffield Coal Company to sink a new colliery at Dinnington.
[2] The colliery commenced sinking in 1902 and reached the Barnsley seam of coal in the summer of 1904.
Rail connection for the colliery was eventually made by the South Yorkshire Joint Railway (SYJR) when its line opened in January 1909.
[7] At the start of the 21st century, the former colliery site was subject to one of the largest former coal mine reclamation schemes that Yorkshire had seen.