SOUTH ELMSALL: Wakefield Parish #23 of 30

It may surprise you to know that the land this one occupies was once coastal, but the town is most famous for its coal-mining past. It was the site of Frickley Colliery, which was one of the largest deep coal mines in the United Kingdom. A busy market town these days, it has easy access to both Doncaster and Wakefield.

The Warde-Aldams were an important local family that owned many properties both in and around this part of West Yorkshire. We’ve met the name before – they owned Hooton Pagnell Hall and Frickley Hall, both of which we met in the Doncaster series.

Frickley Athletic Football Club are currently members of the Northern Premier League Division One East – the eighth tier of football in England. Ronnie Radford, scorer of the famous long-range goal for non-League Hereford United against First-Division Newcastle United in 1972, in one of the FA Cup's greatest giant-killing acts, was born here.

Frickley Country Park officially opened in September 2009, after a long period of land reclamation, environmental cleaning and landscaping of the former Frickley Colliery site was finished. In the town centre there is a colliery memorial which states on the stone that accompanies a winding wheel - "out of these depths this village grows".

Welcome to SOUTH ELMSALL.

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My name is Andy. I am armed with a car, a GoPro and an unhealthy amount of time on my hands.

Join me as I try to visit every single parish in the City of Wakefield. There are 30. Here's the TWENTY-THIRD one – South Elmsall.

#SouthElmsall, #SouthKirkby, #FrickleyColliery, #FrickleyAthletic, #WestYorkshire, #ChrisWalker, #Station, #WardeAldam, #Wakefield, #Pontefract, #MarketHall, #Parish,

South Elmsall Town Council:
http://www.southelmsalltowncouncil.co...

Demographics:
https://www.citypopulation.de/en/uk/y...

Zoopla:
https://www.zoopla.co.uk/house-prices...

GENUKI (South Kirkby):
https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS...

St Mary the Virgin Church:
https://www.southelmsall-stmarythevir...

South Elmsall Market:
  / stlukesyouthcentre  
https://fosemweb.wixsite.com/fosem?fb...
https://www.wakefield.gov.uk/markets/...

Frickley Colliery Cricket Club:
https://frickleycollierycc.play-crick...

Warde-Aldam Hospital:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/backman...

Frickley Colliery:
https://www.nmrs.org.uk/mines-map/coa...

Pontefract Castle:
By Alexander Keirincx - Art UK, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

South Elmsall Quarry:
http://www.virtual-geology.info/VFT-G...

Chris Walker:
https://next-episode.net/person/chris...

Some of the following music tracks may appear in this video:
Brendan Perkins - “Foxsnow” (B. Perkins)
   • Foxsnow  
Brendan Perkins - “Mickey's House” (B. Perkins)
   • Mickey's House  
The Keyhouse - "Voices" (H. Flunder)
   • Voices  
The Keyhouse - "Circles" (H. Flunder)
   • The Keyhouse - Circles (official audio)  
Helen Flunder - "Sun" (H. Flunder)
   • Helen Flunder - 'Sun' (Official Audio)  
Helen Flunder - “Angels” (H. Flunder)
   • Helen Flunder - Angels (Official Audio)  
Helen Flunder - “C Song” (H. Flunder)
   • Caistor and the Lincolnshire Wolds  

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