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Entry Type	Corporate
Corporate Name	Wingfield Manor Colliery
Parent Body	Wingfield Manor Colliery Company
Also Known As	South Wingfield Colliery
Place	Oakerthorpe
Epithet	coal mine
Dates	1906-1963
History	The Wingfield Manor Company Limited acquired the South Wingfield and Oakerthorpe Collieries in 1906. One of the directors was Francis Nicholas Smith, one of the principal landowners, who would seem to have sold the collieries to the South Wingfield Colliery Limited in 1897. The Oakerthorpe Colliery (also known as Speedwell) had been closed down a number of years previously, but developments continued at South Wingfield, with a shaft being sunk to work the Kilburn Seam in 1906. In this year South Wingfield Colliery was renamed Wingfield Manor Colliery. In 1920 the Wingfield Manor Colliery Company was bought by the Clay Cross Company for £5000, but the Wingfield Manor Colliery Company continued to trade under its own name. As a result of the nationalisation of the coal industry in 1947, Wingfield Manor Colliery came under the control of the National Coal Board, being put administratively in the East Midlands Region Area No. 4. The colliery was closed in 1963
Authorised Form of Name	Oakerthorpe; Wingfield Manor Colliery; 1906-1963; coal mine

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