Industrial Park built across the site of the former Wharncliffe Silkstone Colliery. The mine was opened in 1853 and closed in 1967 but was used as a pumping station between 1972 and 1988 (Gill 2007b). The industrial park was probably built after 1988. Whilst the colliery was in production this polygon contained an area of miners houses including a Reading room. The houses were built in terraces made up of single story cottages with bedrooms in the roof space. This was an unusual building style for South Yorkshire (Goodchild 2001, 72-3). Before the mine works and associated structures expanded to cover this area in around 1893 this was an area of regular piecemeal enclosure of an uncertain date. It is marked as enclosed on Jefferys map of 1775. There is no legibility of the former uses of this site.