Site of Tankersley Colliery a disused coal mine and associated spoil tips that are still marked on modern maps. The mine was working between 1867 and 1927. After this point it continued as a pumping station until 1947. The mine was used to extract ironstone as well as coal (Gill 2007b). Tankersley colliery was involved in the Thorncliffe Collieries dispute between 1869 and 1870 and was the site of rioting over pay (see Jones 2003, 88-95). Prior to the development of the coal mine on this site the area had been subject to some ironstone mining which is marked on 1st edition OS map. This hasn’t been included as a past landscape character type because it was quite dispersed. The piecemeal enclosure which covered this area was very irregular and may have been of an early date. There is no legibility of this in the current landscape but partial legibility of the mine.