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Entry Type	Corporate
Corporate Name	Avenue Coking Plant, Wingerworth
Place	Wingerworth
History	The Avenue Coking Plant and Chemical Works were built between 1952 and 1956 to produce smokeless domestic fuel (coke) and a range of by-products ultimately 18 million tonnes of fuel a year. The Avenue Coking Plant closed in 1992. In 2005 grants of £104/5 million were awarded for remediation to counteract environmental contamination on the site. It is proposed that the area will become a leisure park.
Authorised Form of Name	Wingerworth; Avenue Coking Plant, Wingerworth

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