Warren House Colliery

Overview

A pit on Earl Fitzwilliam's land north of Rawmarsh, leased to the Wakefield firm of Charlesworth and worked underground with their neighbouring Warren Vale and Kilnhurst collieries, whose buildings and one spoil heap still stand a century after it closed.

History

Warren House Colliery stood at Upper Haugh, north of Rawmarsh near Rotherham, on land belonging to Earl Fitzwilliam, whose family had held coal in this district since the eighteenth century. It was opened in the early nineteenth century and leased to J. and J. Charlesworth of Wakefield, agents who worked a string of pits in the neighbourhood. Warren House was connected underground with two other Charlesworth collieries, Warren Vale — the pit where an explosion killed fifty-two men and boys in 1851 — and Kilnhurst. It closed in, or shortly after, the First World War. Some of the colliery buildings and one of the spoil heaps were still standing almost a hundred years later.

Geology

The South Yorkshire coalfield north of Rotherham, worked here since the eighteenth century and earlier at Haugh.

Workings

Connected underground with the Charlesworth firm's Warren Vale and Kilnhurst collieries.

Closure

The colliery closed in, or shortly after, the First World War.

What remains

Disused. Some colliery buildings and one spoil heap survived into the twenty-first century.

Remains of colliery buildings and one of the spoil heaps.

Related mines

• Kilnhurst Colliery — The third of the Charlesworth pits connected underground with Warren House.
• Warren Vale Colliery — Connected underground with Warren House and worked by the same firm; the pit of the 1851 explosion.

Nearby mines

• Warren Vale Colliery — 1.5 km E
• New Stubbin Colliery — 1.6 km S
• Cortonwood Colliery — 2.5 km W
• Wath Main Colliery — 2.8 km N
• Roundwood Colliery — 3.1 km SE

Straight-line distance, within 15 km. Show on the map.

Recorded claims

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

• The colliery stood on land owned by Earl Fitzwilliam and was leased to the Wakefield agents J. J. Charlesworth and Company. ¹
• Warren House was opened in the early nineteenth century and closed in, or shortly after, the First World War. ¹
• The colliery was connected underground with two other Charlesworth pits, Warren Vale and Kilnhurst. ^2,1
• Warren House stood at Upper Haugh, north of Rawmarsh. ^2,1
• Some of the colliery buildings and one of the spoil heaps still stood almost a hundred years after closure. ¹

Photographs & further reading

Sources

1. (secondary) Warren House Colliery — Wikipedia
2. (secondary) Warren Vale Colliery Explosion – 150 years on (Joshua Daniels, 4 November 2024) — AroundTown Magazine

Record created: 23 September 2026 · Last researched: 24 September 2026