This land began to fill up with allotments as the houses were built up around it. The number of working allotments has greatly reduced since the 1960s leaving the central portion of land as open park. The trees still remain from the boundaries of the allotments. 1855 maps show small irregular enclosures which may have been enclosed at the edge of the medieval open fields around Hoyland. There is no legibility of this landscape. While Elsecar Main Colliery was in use there was a train line running through this area. It had been removed by 1989 mapping. This started life as a inclined plane running to in ironworks and collieries in Elsecar.