The first shaft of the Hickleton Main Colliery was sunk in 1892 on the Earl of Halifax and Rev. Thornley Taylor's land. The mine buildings and associated railway lines dominated this area by 1894 maps. In 1967 a drift mine was driven to meet the Goldthorpe/Highgate workings. By the late 60s the mine was in decline but finally closed in 1988 and the shafts were filled by 1994. (Hill 2001, 163-7). The business park retains fragmentary legibility of the colliery workings as some spoil heap survive. There is no legibility of the long strip fields that characterised this area prior to the construction of the mine.