 Earlier records still refer to charkcole (charcoal) to be cut in Rounde woodde near Aldwarke Manor house.The colliery was sunk on a triangular section of land, to its west the main line of the Midland Railway, to the east the Mexborough to Sheffield line of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway and to its south the road, known as Aldwarke Lane, a toll road across the lands of the manor of Aldwarke linking Parkgate to Dalton, near Rotherham.The colliery was linked to both adjacent railway lines and to a staithe on the River Don Navigation.