53°29′49″N 1°25′05″W / 53.497°N 1.418°W The Elsecar Collieries were the coal mines sunk in and around Elsecar, a small village to the south of Barnsley in what is now South Yorkshire, but was traditionally in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
The last operating mine, Elsecar Main, closed in 1983 and with its closure ended 230 years of mining in the village