Manvers

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Manvers was a massive colliery and coke preparation complex located at Wath upon Dearne in the Dearne Valley area of South Yorkshire, England. The area also contained British Coal's South Yorkshire headquarters and regional laboratories.

The coking plant closed in 1981 and the colliery complex closed on 25th March, 1988. The land remained derelict until the mid 1990s when the government started a regeneration programme with the assistance of the European Social Fund. Manvers, and the adjoining areas that were formerly the Wath Main colliery, the Wath railway marshalling yard and locomotive depot, were bulldozed, landscaped and are now an area of light industry and commerce, including the call centres of companies such as Ventura, TSC, Ikea, T-Mobile and many others occupying the purpose-built units. They are now the area's largest private employers with approximately 60,000 employees between them. It is also home to the nursing campus of the University of Sheffield.

Plans have now been put in place, to develop more land to be used for 9 hole golf course with driving range, hotel, restaurants and residential home after the original plan for a multiplex cinema was scrapped by Rotherham Council.

Several very large distribution and warehousing centres are currently under construction in Manvers: these are so large as to dominate the surrounding area.