Kippax, The Leeds Road c.1960
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KIPPAX was a small estate village servicing Kippax Hall and Kippax Park for three centuries before developing rapidly in the mid 19th cen- tury with the discovery of coal reserves. Kippax Colliery near Owl Wood flourished between 1858 and 1904, but it was the nearby pits of Allerton Bywater (1875-1992) and Ledston Luck (1909-1987) that transformed the village into the town it is today. To transport the huge coal output, the North Eastern Railway ran the line to nearby Castleford from 1878. Eventually, from November 1953 open cast mining encroached even on the land surrounding Kippax Park, and by 1959 the 300ft-long house was totally demol- ished, leaving the farmland we see today. Once the mining finished in June 1962, over one million tons of coal had been scoured from the park to a depth of 200 feet. A gatehouse on the Castleford road is the only reminder of the Elizabethan splendour of Kippax's past.
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