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Elsecar Collieries

Collieries in South Yorkshire owned by the Wentworth Fitzwilliams from the late-18th century.

Elsecar engine

Steam-driven Newcomen-type atmospheric pumping engine still in its original engine house at Elsecar near Barnsley. Designed by John Bargh of Chesterfield, the engine, is based on one invented by Thomas Newcomen in 1712.

Emley

Rural village in the South Pennine fringe, midway between Hudddersfield and Wakefield.

Emley Moor Colliery

Emley Moor Colliery refers to several sinkings and drift mines over a large area of Emley, towards the television mast, between Flockton to the north and particularly towards Skelmanthorpe to the south

Emma Lister-Kaye

Colliery owner in Overton near Wakefield in the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1871 until 1905.

Epworth Rectory

Site of supposed paranormal events that occurred in 1716.

Fairbottom Bobs

Fairbottom Bobs, an 18th-century Newcomen-type beam engine, was used to pump water from a coal pit near Ashton-under-Lyne, is probably the world’s second-oldest surviving steam engine.

Ferry Bridge

Historically important crossing over the River Aire in North Yorkshire, designed by John Carr.

Fletcher, Burrows & Company

Owner of collieries and cotton mills in Atherton in North West England.

Flockton

Rural village stretched out along the Barnsley to Huddersfield road in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, taking its name from a Viking settler.