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{{short description|Village in West Yorkshire, England}}
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[[File:South Street, Fryston - geograph.org.uk - 558923.jpg|thumb|South Street]]
'''New Fryston''' is a small [[Pit village|former coal mining village]] in [[Castleford]], [[West Yorkshire]], England, located in a river bend on the south bank of the [[River Aire]].<ref>{{cite map|url=http://maps.nls.uk/view/100947761|title= Yorkshire CCXXXIV.NE (includes: Castleford; Fairburn; Garforth; Ledsham; Ledston.)|year=1893|publisher=Ordnance Survey}}</ref>
[[File:Now you see me, now you don't part 2, the fall of a giant - geograph.org.uk - 761661.jpg|thumb|left|Demolition of the winding tower, September 1985]]
The colliery opened in the 1870s in the grounds of the now-demolished [[Fryston Hall]] and was named Fryston, and the village was built in the 1880s to house some of the miners.<ref name=CAS016/><ref name=Homeward/> At its peak, the pit employed around 1,300 miners.<ref name=Homeward/> It closed in 1985.<ref name=CAS016>{{cite web|title=Castleford History|url=http://www.castleford.org/history/cas016.html|website=www.castleford.org|accessdate=12 March 2016}}</ref> After the pit's closure, the colliery buildings were [[demolished]].<ref name=Homeward>{{cite news|last1=McClarence|first1=Stephen|title=Homeward Bound|url=http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/homeward-bound-1-4608603|accessdate=12 March 2016|newspaper=Yorkshire Post|date=4 June 2012}}</ref>
The settlement is also called ''Fryston village''.<ref name=CAS016/> <!-- Fryston Village is sometimes known as Old Fryston and Ferry Fryston is sometimes called New Fryston. NB: This is probably wrong, at least according to the OS maps.-->
In 2005, a re-generation programme called the Castleford Project, carried out a number of re-developments in Fryston including what turned out to be a controversial new Village Green; these re-developments were the subject of a series of television programmes on [[Channel 4]].<ref name=Homeward/><ref>{{cite web|title=Kevin McCloud and the Big Town Plan|url=http://www.channel4.com/life/microsites/0-9/4homes/castleford/|website=www.channel4.com|accessdate=12 March 2016}}</ref>
==See also==
*[[List of collieries in Yorkshire 1984-present with dates of closure|List of Yorkshire Pits]]
*[[Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton]]
==References==
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==External links==
*{{Commons category-inline|New Fryston}}
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[[Category:Villages in West Yorkshire]]
[[Category:Castleford]]
[[Category:Mining communities in England]]
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