Leeds Intelligencer – Tuesday 19 June 1781

COAL

To be LETT or SOLD, TWO Beds or Seams of Good COAL at THURNSCOE, Eight Miles from Doncaster, One Mile from the Lime Kilns at Billingley-Green, which adjoins the Barnsley and Doncaster Turnpike-Road, and Three Miles from Brodsworth, Hutton-Pagnell, and Elmsall Lime-Kilns.

The First or Upper Bed or Seam lies Fifteen or Sixteen Yards deep, and is about One Foot and an Half Thick of solid Coal; and the Second Lower Bed or Seam, is One yard, One Foot, and Half, or thereabouts, in Thickness, of solid Coal, and is Forty-eight or Forty-nine Yards from the Surface.