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'''Rothwell Country Park''' (rarely referred to as '''Millennium Park'''<ref name="LHLCP" />) is a 52 hectares public park, between the north of Rothwell and the Aire and Calder Navigation.
The park is a [https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/local-wildlife-sites Local Wildlife Site]<ref name="wtreport" />, with a pond trail and a sculpture trail; a summit, which offers a view of Leeds; and connections to the Trans-Pennine Way. <ref name="ywt" />
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| caption = <div style="text-align:center"> '''A view of one of Rothwell Country Park's ponds in 2010.''' <br/>[https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2036080 Photo] © [https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/760 Mark Anderson] ([https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ cc-by-sa/2.0])</div>
| aka = Millennium Park <ref name="LHLCP"> West Yorkshire Joint Services, West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service and Historic England, 2017. ''Leeds Historic Landscape Characterisation Project Final Report''. [online] Leeds: WYJS, p.750. Available at: <https://www.wyjs.org.uk/media/69833/leeds-historic-landscape-characterisation-project-report.pdf> [Accessed 17 July 2022].</ref>
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The site was a hunting ground in the Medieval period and then a colliery in the 19th and 20th Centuries, until it was redeveloped in the mid 1990s.<ref name="frcp">Friends of Rothwell Country Park. "History of the Park". [online]. Available at:<https://sites.google.com/site/friendsofrothwellcountrypark/about-the-park> [Accessed 3/12/2020]</ref>
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In 1530, the Royal Hunting Park of Rothwell was de-parked and hunting would have subsided, while cattle grazing and eventually coal mining would have increased. <ref name="frcp" />
==19th Century==
Around 1867, the [[Charlesworth Family|Charlesworth family]] sank a shaft on the site, named Fanny Pit, after the daughter of one of the Charlesworths. Despite millions of gallons of water needing to be pumped out of the shaft every week, the shaft was highly
==20th Century==
In 1947, the pit was nationalised and it began to focus on producing coal quickly for the power stations. This led to the introduction of an underground locomotive system. <ref name="frcp" />
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Rothwell Country Park was one of the 13 Wildlife Trust sites within 500m of the proposed HS2 train line. The Wildlife Trust's 2020 report, "What's the Damage?", highlighted how the new proposed HS2 line would go further south into the site, where the highest level of biodiversity is, and that construction would have caused damage and possibly introduced invasive species that had been eradicted from the site back into Rothwell Country Park from its boundaries. <ref name="wtreport" /> The government's announcement that the East Midlands-Leeds high-speed line was to be scrapped<ref>Russell Hotten, BBC News (2021). "HS2 rail extension to Leeds scrapped amid promise to transform rail". [online]. Available at: <https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59334043> [Accessed 23/02/2022]</ref> meant that HS2 would not go through Rothwell Country Park.
== See Also ==
* [https://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=154975896 Photos of the park from Georgaph]
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