A short history of Dinnington.
Dinnington was a small village of fewer than 200 people until coal transformed it from 1902 onwards. Dinnington Main Colliery, sunk between 1902 and 1905, was for a time one of the deepest pits in Yorkshire, and the village population grew rapidly through the early 20th century to house the workforce. The pit closed in 1992. Dinnington also gives its name to the Dinnington Sandstone — a thin, very hard rock layer used historically for building.
The town now has around 9,500 residents and a busy high street centred on Laughton Road. Housing is mostly the brick miners' terraces from the early 20th century, with later council estates at Anston Avenue and Lordens Hill, and modern developments stretching out towards Anston and Laughton. The town is at the eastern edge of Rotherham borough, very close to the Nottinghamshire border.
Dinnington areas we cover
- Laughton Road
- Lordens Hill
- Anston Avenue
- New Street
- Doe Quarry Lane
- Lidgett Lane
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