Mix of privately built housing styles on the historic core of Monk Bretton. Monk Bretton originated as the village of Bretton or Burton and took its extended name from Monk Bretton Priory which was founded in 1154 (Hey 1986, 59). The settlement was in place by the writing of the Domesday Book. In the 19th century the population of the village expanded due to the proximity to te Barnsley Canal and the operation of linen weaving and bleaching in the village. There would have been weavers cottages within the settlement (Lewis 1848). There is fragmentary legibility of the former settlement as very few examples of pre 20th century houses survive although the road pattern stays the same.