Site of Orgreave Colliery. The first shaft was sunk in 1795. It was reopened in 1851 and closed in 1981. Open cast operations were carried out after the colliery closure and this character still dominates the landscape. Prior to the colliery covering the whole site, the area was agricultural being comprised of irregularly shaped fields. The fields were probably enclosed in a piecemeal fashion from Orgreave Common. Legibility of the former agricultural landscape is invisible.