New Fryston is a small former coal mining village in Castleford, West Yorkshire, England, located in a river bend on the south bank of the River Aire. [1]
The colliery opened in the 1870s in the grounds of the now-demolished Fryston Hall and was named Fryston, and the village was built in the 1880s to house some of the miners. [2] [3] At its peak, the pit employed around 1,300 miners. [3] It closed in 1985. [2] After the pit's closure, the colliery buildings were demolished. [3]
The settlement is also called Fryston village. [2]
In 2005, a re-generation programme called the Castleford Project, carried out a number of re-developments in Fryston including what turned out to be a controversial new Village Green; these re-developments were the subject of a series of television programmes on Channel 4. [3] [4]
See also
References
- ^ Yorkshire CCXXXIV.NE (includes: Castleford; Fairburn; Garforth; Ledsham; Ledston.) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 1893.
- ^ a b c "Castleford History". www.castleford.org. Retrieved 12 March 2016.
- ^ a b c d McClarence, Stephen (4 June 2012). "Homeward Bound". Yorkshire Post. Retrieved 12 March 2016.
- ^ "Kevin McCloud and the Big Town Plan". www.channel4.com. Retrieved 12 March 2016.
External links
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Media related to
New Fryston at Wikimedia Commons
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