This area has contained industrial premises involved in the heavy metal trades since at least 1892. Since then the number and size of works has expanded greatly. Amongst the earliest were the Rother Iron Works, Ickles Works and the South Yorkshire Hoop Iron Works. The 1st edition map OS of 1854 shows fields marked 'liable to flooding'. As the River Rother runs through the polygon the fields were probably utilised as valley floor meadows. Legibility of the former landscape is invisible.