Keppel’s Column
One of several follies and monuments erected on the Wentworth Park Estate in South Yorkshire.
Folly, Yorkshire
Yorkshire
Yorkshire
Shoddy and mungo
Manufacture of shoddy and mungo, an early form of recycling, was an important industry in the Heavy Woollen district of West Yorkshire.
Yorkshire
Heavy Woollen District
Area of West Yorkshire whose prosperity rested on the manufacture of shoddy and mungo, an early form of recycling.
Pottery, Yorkshire
Burmantofts Pottery
Major producer of decorated tiles and architectural ceramics in Yorkshire.
Yorkshire
Flockton Collieries
Several pits, some started before 1700, around Flockton and Middlestown between Wakefield and Huddersfield in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
Coal mining, Yorkshire
Grange Ash Colliery
Colliery that operated between 1871 and 1966, south of the A642 road east of Grange Moor crossroads.
Abbey, Monastery, Yorkshire
Jervaulx Abbey
Ruined Cistercian monastery and scheduled monument about one and a half miles (2.4 km) east of East Witton in Wensleydale, North Yorkshire.
Village, Yorkshire
Scammonden
Pennine village that was flooded in the 1960s when Scammonden Dam and the M62 trans-Pennine motorway were constructed.
Yorkshire
Calder and Hebble Navigation
Constructed between 1758 and 1834, the navigation makes the River Calder navigable between Sowerby Bridge and Wakefield in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
Parish, Yorkshire
Sitlington
Ancient township of four villages, renamed from Shitlington to Sitlington in 1929.
