The date for the first pits around Bishop Sutton are uncertain but there was at least one before 1719 . By 1824 a collection of four bell pits were identified in field tithe No 1409, and four shaft pits in field tithe No 1428, but they were no longer working.
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Close to Windyhouse was a deep pool, possibly a collapsed bell pit or limestone quarry, later used to dispose of dead animals, tree stumps, excess soil, etc; it is known as the'Baney Hole'and is still visible as a wet area in the field.
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These developments, coupled with the nearby Withymoor Village development ( classed as part of Brierley Hill ), added almost 8, 000 new homes between 1964 and 1998 on land formerly used for farming and rehabilitated former coal and fire clay mines, both bell pits and open cast mines, which completely changed the face of the area, and brick works which closed down.
