SR Gent factory that stopped production in 2005 but remained as a supply depot. SR Gent have been a supplier to Marks and Spencer's since 1945. The factory was built on an area of clay pits associated with the former brickworks north of Dodworth Road (HSY7967). The clay pits began encroaching on the area by 1907 maps and covered the whole area by 1931 with a tramway moving the clay to the brickworks. Prior to this, this was an area of piecemeal enclosure that may have been part of the open fields west of Barnsley. By 1649 these fields had been enclosed as Barnsley is recorded as having four townfields called Churchfield, Old Mill Field and Swinhill field (Elliot 2002, 37). These are marked on historic maps north east of the town. The boundaries of the site give partial legibility of the former field pattern and clay works which fitted within this pattern.