The irregular small village of 'Pigburn' depicted by Jefferys in the late 18th century and descended from the Domesday settlement of 'Picheburne' (Smith 1961, 72) appears to have been cleared from the mid to late 19th century and rebuilt as an estate satellite of Brodsworth to the west, with a mixture of neat limestone ashlar semi detached cottages, terraced housing, a school and two large villa farms. Fragmentary legibility of possible former settlement boundaries at the edge of this polygon.