This area was first set apart from agricultural use in the mid twentieth century when it was surrounded by the Woodlands housing developments associated with the growth of Adwick le Street to accommodate miners from the nearby Brodsworth Colliery. Established by 1967 as a recreation ground the present leisure centre dates to the period 1984-1997. No legibility of earlier surveyed enclosure of former open field probably dating to the 1761 Adwick enclosure Award (English 1985, 2)