Lofthouse is a village between the cities of Wakefield and Leeds in West Yorkshire, England.

[1] The village falls within the Ardsley and Robin Hood ward of the City of Leeds Council.

It is in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough but with a Wakefield postal address (WF3).

[2] Lofthouse has good road connections to its nearby boroughs as well as to the rest of Northern England.

The disaster actually took place beneath a field near the village of Kirkhamgate, where a new coalface was being worked.