Middlecliff is a small colliery settlement near to Dearne Valley Colliery. This area of social housing was built by 1931 on an area of former strip fields. This housing expanded the small terrace of pit cottages that were built in the late 19th century (HSY7273). There is fragmentary legibility of the former enclosures in remaining boundaries on the edge of the housing but the layout mostly overwrites the field pattern.