The Mitchell Main Colliery workings expanded across part of this area by 1938. Later further spoil heaps were added in the west of this polygon. The colliery closed in 1956 but continued to be used for drainage until 1989 (Gill 2007b). The site has now been planted up as an area of woodland. There is fragmentary legibility of the mine workings as the path of the associated railway lines remains. The south western edge of the polygon corresponds to the route of the Dearne and Dove Canal that opened in 1804 (Glister 1995, 118), it is now drained.