Park Lane Colliery, Ossett

Overview

A two-shaft colliery at Flushdyke, Ossett, worked from 1862 to 1885 by Cliffe and Company and then G. and J. Haigh in the Haigh Moor seam.

History

Park Lane Colliery stood at Flushdyke, Ossett, to the left of Owlers Farm, and was worked from 1862 to 1885 from two working shafts. Cliffe and Company owned it from 1862 to 1874, and G. and J. Haigh from 1876 until it closed in 1885.

The Haighs had owned New Lodge Colliery at Gawthorpe since 1855, and the two pits' Haigh Moor workings were drawn on one plan, lodged as abandoned in 1888 under the title Gawthorpe and Park Lane.

Geology

West Yorkshire coal measures: the Haigh Moor seam.

Workings

Two working shafts.

Closure

Closed in 1885; its Haigh Moor workings were abandoned with Gawthorpe's under a plan of 1888.

What remains

Unknown.

Related mines

• New Lodge Colliery, Gawthorpe — Both belonged to George and John Haigh, and their Haigh Moor workings were abandoned under one plan of 1888.

Recorded claims

Individual factual claims, each attached to the source(s) that support it below. Where sources disagree, both are kept.

• Park Lane Colliery at Ossett worked from 1862 to 1885. ^1,2
• Cliffe and Company owned it from 1862 to 1874 and G. and J. Haigh from 1876 to 1885. ¹
• The colliery had two working shafts, near Owlers Farm at Flushdyke. ¹
• Its Haigh Moor workings were abandoned with Gawthorpe's under a plan of 1888. ³

Sources

1. (secondary) Ossett coal mining (Ossett - the history of a Yorkshire town) — ossett.net
2. (secondary) Coal Mines in Yorkshire 1854: P — Northern Mine Research Society
3. (primary) BGS mine plan: GAWTHORP & PARK LANE, Haigh Moor, abandoned 1888 — British Geological Survey / Mining Remediation Authority

Record created: 24 October 2026 · Last researched: 24 October 2026