 Today the site is a shopping and leisure centre.Cortonwood colliery was sunk in 1873, a year after the formation of the Brampton Colliery Company, which took its name from the local parish of Brampton Bierlow, near Rotherham.By March 1875, two shafts had been dug to a depth of to work the Barnsley Seam which was at a depth of .