Land now part of Worsbrough Country Park. The remaining stretch of water from the Worsbrough canal basin gives partial legibility of the past landscape. The Dearne and Dove Canal was declared open in 1804 (Glister 1995, 118) and Worsbrough Basin become a focus for the development of industries in the area. Historic maps show Martin's Main Colliery, houses and probably businesses at Bell Ing Wharf, a series of lime kilns, the Wood brothers Glassworks, a gas works, saw mill and coke ovens. The glassworks was founded in around 1832 by Usherwood, Barron, Cartwright and Perkes. Early on the business was taken over by John and James Wood, glassworkers from Staffordshire and prospered as a flint glassworks. The firm transferred to new works at Hoyle Mill in 1872 although some grinding an finishing continued on this site until 1874. Glassworkers wee still recorded as living in the area until 1881 suggesting there may have been an independent glassworks surviving after the transfer of the Wood Brothers site. (Ashurst 1992 71-2). The Worsbrough branch of the Dearne and Dove Canal closed in 1906 after repeated problems with subsidence due to coal mining in the area (Glister 1995, 120).