Brodsworth Colliery was a coal mine north west of Doncaster and west of the Great North Road. in South Yorkshire, England. Two shafts were sunk between October 1905 and 1907 in a joint venture by the Hickleton Main Colliery Company and the Staveley Coal and Iron Company.^[1]

The colliery exploited the coal seams of the South Yorkshire Coalfield including the Barnsley seam which was reached at a depth of 595 yards and was up to 9 feet thick.^[2] After a third shaft was sunk in 1923,^[3] Brodsworth, the largest colliery in Yorkshire, had the highest output of a three-shaft colliery in Britain.^[1]

The colliery and five others were merged into Doncaster Amalgamated Collieries^[4] in 1937 and the National Coal Board in 1947.^[5] It closed in 1990.^[2]

The colliery was consistently amongst those that employed the most miners in Britain, employing around 2,800 workers throughout the 1980s.

The company built Woodlands, a model village for its workers.^[6] Since the colliery closed, its spoil tip has been restored and developed as a community woodland; owned by the Land Restoration Trust and controlled by the Forestry Commission. Some of the colliery site has been sufficiently remediated to allow houses to be built upon it.^[7]