A short history of Maltby.
Maltby is a former mining town six miles east of Rotherham, dominated for over a century by Maltby Main Colliery — one of the largest deep mines in the country, sunk in 1908 and finally closed in 2013, making it one of the very last UK deep coal mines to operate. Before coal, Maltby was a small estate village belonging to the Sandbeck Park estate of the Earl of Scarbrough.
The town today has around 16,000 residents. Housing is overwhelmingly miners' terraces in the older parts and council-built estates from the 1920s onwards, with newer developments around Hoober and Wickersley Road. The substantial Roche Abbey ruins, founded in 1147 by Cistercian monks, sit in a wooded valley just south of the town and remain a popular local visit.
Maltby areas we cover
- Town centre
- Hoober
- Maltby Common
- High Street
- Cliff Hill
- Roche Abbey edge
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