Tight cluster of buildings around St Leonard's Church which used to be a medieval Chapel of Ease. The hamlet is on the south western edge of Wortley Old deer park which was formed in 1589 (Hey 1986, 123). Most of the current buildings in this historic centre date from the 18th century and are shown on the 1796 map of Wortley. The settlement probably originated as a small cluster of farms. There is little evidence of the medieval hamlet but the plan form of the settlement has probably changed little but legibility is fragmentary as only clear evidence visible of the medieval settlement is the market cross.