The historic character of this area of settlement is drawn from the 18th and 19th century buildings which built up around the point where the turnpiked Sheffield to Halifax Road crossed the river Don (turnpiked in 1777 (Hey 2002, 130)). The Bridge Hotel and The White Hart Inn are both named on 1893 maps and a Smithy is marked at the west of the polygon. Also within the polygon St Mary's Well which dates to the Medieval period. The presence of a well combined with the fact that this is a river crossing at the point Thurlstone and Penistone Parishes meet makes it likely that there was medieval settlement, possibly a farmstead in this area. The Medieval Well and ancient highway (later turnpiked) provide fragmentary legibility of the previous settlement.