Rossington

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Map sources for Rossington at grid reference SK624981

Rossington is a mining village South-East of Doncaster, South Yorkshire. There are remains of both a Roman fort and Roman pottery kilns in the area. In later times, Rossington housed a small village and both Rossington Hall and Shooters Hill Hall. However it was the mid-twentieth century that saw the largest expansion of the area. The need for workers in and around the Rossington Main Colliery led to the building of large numbers of housing near to the pit in what was called New Rossington. After the end of British Coal in the early 1990s, the mine was able to keep operating and became one of the last in the area to keep producing coal albeit at a greatly reduced scale. However, with the decline of the mine, the village suffered high levels of unemployment and poverty throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. In more recent years, Old Rossington has seen the building of large levels of new, private housing raising the village's affluence.

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