Nostell is a village in the City of Wakefield in

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, England, near

Hemsworth Hemsworth is a town and civil parish in the City of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. Historically within the West Riding of Yorkshire and had a population of 13,311 at the 2001 census, with it increasing to 13,533 at the 2011 Census. Hist ...

. It is in the

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of Huntwick with Foulby and Nostell, which had a population of 90 in 2001, and 164 at the 2011 census (including Wintersett).

Nostell Priory Nostell Priory is a Palladian house in Nostell, West Yorkshire, England, near Crofton on the road to Doncaster from Wakefield. It dates from 1733, and was built for the Winn family on the site of a medieval priory. The Priory and its contents ...

is an 18th-century

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, on the site of an

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which received its charter in 1121. It has interiors by

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and furniture by

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. The house was owned by the Winn family and is now in the care of the

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. Coal mining at Nostell began in the 9th century and continued until 1987. Nostell Colliery was known locally as 'the family pit' due to the welfare schemes introduced by the Winn family far in advance of similar schemes prior to nationalisation. In 1880, terraced houses were built close by to the colliery and the settlement was nicknamed 'Cribbins Lump' after the builder by the inhabitants. The settlement was later renamed 'New Crofton' by Lord St Oswald but the nickname remained until the houses were demolished in the 1980s. Nostell Colliery closed in 1987.BBC News - pit closures year by year
/ref> As with the other closed pits in the Wakefield area, many of the miners took transfers to the new

Selby Coalfield Selby coalfield (also known as the Selby complex, or Selby 'superpit') was a large-scale deep underground mine complex based around Selby, North Yorkshire, England, with pitheads at ''Wistow Mine'', ''Stillingfleet Mine'', ''Riccall Mine'', ''Nor ...

on closure. A full history was written in the same year by the pit's manager at the time of closure: ''A History of Over 850 Years of Mining at Nostell'' by Bryan Fraser. Nostell also has
Cricket Club
established pre 1897, located opposite the Priory. In the 1870-1872 '' Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales'', "Foulby, Nostell and Huntwick" was described as an extra-parochial tract within

Pontefract Pontefract is a historic market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England, east of Wakefield and south of Castleford. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is one of the towns in the City of Wak ...

parish, with a population of 145 people in 27 houses.

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Villages in West Yorkshire Geography of the City of Wakefield Mining communities in England {{WestYorkshire-geo-stub

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