Name: Towns in England – South Elmsall
Uploaded: 2023-07-31T21:58:08.696Z
Duration: 10 min 16 s
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If you’re a subscriber to our Channel, you are likely to have seen or heard one or two things about South Elmsall. That is the next in our discussion of the towns in England. Are you thinking about moving to this village or do you intend moving to a not-so-big town? Please watch this video to the end and see if you could add South Elmsall to the list of towns in England you could consider. You are sure to hear and see something so good about this town in this video. By the time you have heard about the history of the town, its prominent people, and population, you will be able to make your own opinion about the town. 
An Overview of South Elmsall
South Elmsall is a small town and civil parish in the City of Wakefield which is in West Yorkshire in England. The town lying to the east of Hemsworth is a former coalfield area. Thus, it is underlain by coal measures consisting mainly of mudstone with beds of sandstones and seams of coal. It is these sandstones that prevent erosion. They could be seen forming a recurring pattern of escarpments standing out from the shallow mudstone floors of the valleys. It has major rivers that are crossing the area; these have carved broad valleys glaciated and floored by fertile alluvial deposits. 
History of South Elmsall
South Elmsall is referred to in the Domesday Book of over 1000 years ago. That’s the first and the earliest historical reference to the town. It’s called Ermeshale, meaning that the village was under Norman domination before the name was later corrupted to Elmsall as we call it today. Geologists discovered Field Lane on Stromatolite Reef traceable back to the Permian period. 
John Morris, a then-local Hero in South Elmsall was born in 1619. At an early age, he progressed and rose through the ranks braving different skirmishes to become a Colonel in the Civil War. He’s credited with taking Pontefract Castle from the Parliamentarians back then in 1648. At this time, the town was mainly a small farming village with stone cottages nestling in a valley.
This continued until the early 1800s when the lime quarrying industry gave way to coal as the main source of income and employment attracting workers from different areas. This influx made it necessary to have more houses to house the growing population and schools to educate young people. The town was filled with a mixture of stone and brick architectural designs. Around the year 1800, South Elmsall had become the main village around the area.
Coal Mining in South Elmsall
The history of South Elmsall would be vague if coal mining didn’t get enough attention. It was home to one of the largest deep coal mines in the United Kingdom, Frickley Colliery. It provided an important opportunity for union radicalism which got to a peak during the United Kingdom Miners’ Strike. That industrial crisis brought about serious disturbances in the area. Even when the strike was called off by force, the colliery was the last to return to work. A group of hardliners from the Kent picketed Frickley even after the strike had been called off. 
Frickley Colliery invested in a lot of projects that brought improvements and many benefits to the area. One such was the establishment of the Warde Aldam Hospital. It also constructed swimming baths and sports facilities in the area. The Warde-Aldam was built in 1911 and was used as a general hospital. In 1948, it was taken over by the NHS and was providing acute hospital care until 1978. Following the closure of nearby pits like Ferrymoor-Riddings in 1985, Kinsley in 1986, South Kirkby in 1988, and Grimethorpe in 1992, Frickley Colliery also was closed on November 26, 1993, for the same reason others closed. 


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