Bottom Boat

{{Short description|Village in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Use British English|date=January 2025}}

{{Infobox UK place

| country = England

| official_name = Bottom Boat

| coordinates = {{coord|53.718385|-1.458988}}

| static_image_name = Bottom Boat Wakefield - geograph.org.uk - 39758.jpg

| population = 1,169

| metropolitan_borough = City of Wakefield

| metropolitan_county = West Yorkshire

| region = Yorkshire and the Humber

}}

Bottom Boat is a village in the Wakefield district of West Yorkshire.{{cite web|url=https://getoutside.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/local/bottom-boat-wakefield|publisher=Ordnance Survey|access-date=27 July 2020|title=BOTTOM BOAT, WAKEFIELD (WF3 4AY)}} In the 2011 United Kingdom census, its population was 1,169, and it was included as part of the West Yorkshire Built-up Area, which had a total population of 1,777,934.{{cite web|url=http://statistics.data.gov.uk/atlas/resource?uri=http://statistics.data.gov.uk/id/statistical-geography/E35000156&includeObsolete=false|title=E35 Built-up Area, sub-division: Bottom Boat BUASD|publisher=Office for National Statistics|access-date=27 July 2020}}

Before the enactment of the Local Government Act 1972, it was part of the Stanley Urban District.

Most of the current houses in Bottom Boat were built for workers at the Newmarket Silkstone Colliery.{{cite web|url=http://www.stanleyhistoryonline.com/Bottomboat-History.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100604050035/http://www.stanleyhistoryonline.com/Bottomboat-History.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=4 June 2010| title=Bottomboat History|publisher=Stanley History Online|access-date=27 July 2020}} The colliery closed on 29 September 1983, which was only a few months before the start of a year-long strike in the British mining industry.{{cite book|chapter=Newmarket Colliery|title=Yorkshire Collieries 1947–1994|last=Downes|first=Eddie|publisher=Think Pit Publication|year=2016|pages=377–382|isbn=9-780995-570900|location=London}} This closure was not opposed by the NUM as it had been agreed under the previous Labour Government's "Plan for Coal" on the condition that the workforce could transfer to the new Selby Coalfield.{{cite book|chapter=The Selby Complex|title=Yorkshire Collieries 1947–1994|last=Downes|first=Eddie|publisher=Think Pit Publication|year=2016|pages=477–493|isbn=9-780995-570900|location=London}}