Allotment gardens associated with the miners housing built for the adjacent Grimethorpe colliery. The land was formerly agricultural but prior to this it was likely to have been part of the expansion of Brierley deer park that occurred in the late 16th century (Harrison & Watson 2006 [accessed 15/11/07]). The park is marked on 1610 maps but not on Jefferys 1775 map. This land would have been farmed by the inhabitants of the small hamlet of Grimethorpe in the medieval period. When the park was expanded the settlement was probably depopulated. There is fragmentary legibility of the former enclosed landscape. Some of the allotments are now disused.