Sports ground which is first depicted as such on the 1987 6 inch OS map. The 1894 25 inch map shows Arbourthorne Colliery located in the centre of the polygon. It is uncertain when this goes out of use but the land appears to lay undeveloped until its use as a sports ground. Prior to the colliery, the area was rural in character consisting of fields. The fields were enclosed in a piecemeal fashion from Sheffield Park. Legibility of the previous landscape is invisible.