Commercial centre on the site of the cattle market in the early 20th century. This area is within the medieval planned settlement that ran along Church Street and Shambles Street. The town was relocated to this area by the monks of Pontefract by the 13th century from its original position further north west (Old Town) (Elliot 2002, 37). There is fragmentary legibility of the past townscape as the main medieval street pattern has been truncated by later roads running thorough the area.