Modern social housing estate built on the south of Dodworth between 1965 and 1978 mapping. This portion of the estate overwrites the late 19th century terraced housing at Gilroyd. This was probably a mining village associated with the Wentworth Silkstone Colliery (HSY6407). There is fragmentary legibility of this earlier phase of settlement as the modern housing has kept the alignment of streets from the terraces, but the location of these streets is not exactly the same as the modern buildings are given more gardens. Before the building of the hamlet at Gilroyd this land was an area of irregular piecemeal enclosure on the edge of the river. This was probably enclosed as part of squatter settlement at the far edges of Dodworth township on an area of former commons. Sykes (1993, 234) indicates that this was likely to be a mix of scrub and marshland in the medieval period.