On the subject of Radcliffe generally I had always assumed that the village had been opencast right up to within a few tens of metres of the remaining houses, but the current "Google Maps" show this not to be the case -as you can still see the pattern of Dandsfield place, their gardens etc. in the ground discolouration in the fields. So the opencast pit never made it that far west. Looks like they clipped off the land under Stable Row and up to the old Colliery mine shafts though:
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=amb...gl=uk&t=h&z=16