Rother Vale Collieries

Rother Vale Collieries were a group of coal producing pits originally in the Rother Valley parishes of Treeton, Woodhouse and Orgreave, nowadays on the south east Sheffield / Rotherham boundary, in South Yorkshire, England.

It was situated less than a mile from Fence, adjacent to the main line of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, to the west of Woodhouse.

gained authorisation for a branch line, unusually, under its "Extension to London" Act, 1893.

The point of sinking was situated over a large geological fault which had thrown the coal out of its normal position.

2: The Selby Coalfield straddled the border of North and West Yorkshire