First shown on the 1930 OS map but probably contemporary with the opening of the Yorkshire Main colliery in 1909. The Miners Welfare Ground still retains the original features such as the cricket and football ground and cycling track but other sporting facilities have been added. Prior to this the area was agricultural. It comprised thin, enclosed strip fields consolidated from a former open field. The field is named as Beck Field on the 1st edition OS map of 1854. Legibility of the former landscape is invisible.