Area of predominantly modern character which gradually built up in its current form after the closure and infilling of the Barnsley Canal which once ran along the north west edge of this polygon. This section of the Canal was opened in 1799 and closed in 1953 (Glister 1996, 219). The growth of housing which is marked on historic maps is likely to have been stimulated by the canal as this was the location of the canal locks. This land would have been on the edge of Barughs medieval open field system. The land is still unenclosed on a map from 1697 (ASWYAS 2002a). There is no legibility of the former enclosures but there is fragmentary legibility of the earlier settlement as the church and pubs survive.