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Upton and North Elmsall are villages within the Metropolitan Borough of Wakefield and are situated near the villages of Ackworth, South Elmsall, Badsworth South Kirkby, and Moorthorpe. It was once a small but thriving mining community with its own colliery, which started producing coal in 1926, the mine closed in 1964. Sixty one men died during the mines 40 year life, the price of coal.
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