Nowadays, the village remains semi-rural and residential with a school, convenience store and a Chinese takeaway.

[1] The Minnie Pit was the Downcast Shaft for the Podmore Hall operations and was 360 yards deep, reaching five thick, profitable coal seams.

[1] On 12 January 1918, a huge explosion tore through the workings and killed 156 men and boys, at a time as well when the Great War was in its fourth year.

The pit never recovered from the disaster and closed in 1930, along with the entire workings of the Podmore Hall Collieries and Apedale Ironworks.

The Minnie Pit Disaster is the subject of the Wilfred Owen poem "Miners," published in 1918.