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Netherton, Wakefield history
Netherton, originally Nether Shitlington was, with Over Shitlington and Middle Shitlington (Middlestown) part of the township of Shitlington in the ancient ecclesiastical parish of Thornhill. A Mesolithic axe was found near the Star Inn in 1963. Netherton Hall, a Grade II* listed manor house, was built around 1775 for the Perkins family.
Coal mining
Prince of Wales Pit, locally known as Wood Pit, was sunk near the line near New Hall Wood in 1870. Hartley Bank Colliery was sunk in 1872 on the south side of the Calder and Hebble Navigation and closed in 1968. A disaster in May 1924 when firedamp ignited killed five miners and injured 26 men.
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