Recreation ground created from the site of a former coal mine. Woodthorpe Colliery is depicted on Sanderson's 1837 map at SK386865. It boundaries are preserved at this point in the boundary of the present playing ground. From this pit head an 'inclined plane' (sloping railway) was used to drag coal to Coke Ovens at Elm Tree Hill. The route of this incline is visible on the 1999 Cities Revealed aerial photograph were part is visible as a tarmaced access road and part is visible as a parch mark in the grass of the recreation ground. Fragmentary legibility of industrial earthwork. Previously piecemeal enclosure.