Fence Colliery was a small colliery sunk at the lower end of the village of Fence, South Yorkshire, England alongside the main Sheffield to Worksop road in the 1840s, shortly before the opening of the North Midland Railway through the Rother Valley.
The original coal pit at Fence, a small village within Rotherham Rural District alongside the main Sheffield to Worksop road.
These were built along Falconer Lane, on the opposite side of the main road to the colliery, and are still in use.
[2] Nationalisation came in 1947 and in the 1950s the site became home to the National Coal Boards divisional workshops, finally closing in the 1990s.
After a short period of inactivity the site was redeveloped as Ley's Cast Iron Foundry, being relocated from Dronfield.