The Birley Collieries were a group of coal mines set in the Shire Brook Valley in south-east Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. They were connected to the railway system by a branch line from the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway at Woodhouse East Junction, about 800 yards east of Woodhouse station.
Site of Birley East Colliery
Former route of the Birley colliery branch, now a section of the Transpennine Trail
Shire Brook is a small stream in the south eastern part of the City of Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England. It rises in the suburb of Gleadless Townend and flows in a general easterly direction for 4 miles (6.5 km) to its confluence with the River Rother between Beighton and Woodhouse Mill. In the past the brook has been both the border of Yorkshire and Derbyshire and between the sees of Canterbury and York. The course of the stream has been influenced by human intervention in the 20th century with the brook being diverted underground and flowing through culverts on three occasions as it traverses locations which were formerly landfill sites and extensive railway sidings.
Shire Brook‘s source is a spring beneath the Red Lion public house at Gleadless Townend.
Carr Forge Dam is a haven for animals and plants. The houses of Woodhouse are in the background.
Shire Brook as it runs through the nature reserve. The stream from Birley Spa flows in on the left.
