Part of the markets and shopping centre of Barnsley that had developed by 1983. The Gas works was first marked on an 1822 map on the edge of the former common and moorland enclosed by the 1779 (date from English 1985) enclosure award. By 1931 part of this site had been taken over by the adjacent Borough foundry. The industrial sites had been cleared by the 1970s. There is no legibility of the past landscape.