Site of early colliery marked on first edition mapping. Shaft was sunk in the 1830s by Robert C Clarke owner of Noblethorpe Hall. Before the branch railway lines connected with this part of the coal fields coal was transported via a horse drawn, railed, wagon way which was built in 1809. This connected with the Barnsley canal at Barnby Basin. Moor End colliery was down a significant slope from the Waggon way so an inclined plane was built which ran up to Silkstone Common. It was powered by a Steam Engine called the Black Horse Engine. (Leach 2007). The houses are first mapped in 1893. By this time Silkstone Common had expanded as a village and an additional railway branch lane had been built. The houses sit within the enclosed fields which predated the colliery but there was no sign of the mine shaft itself. The embankments which connected to the inclined plane still remain but little else of the coal mine so legibility of the mine is fragmentary as is legibility of the earlier piecemeal enclosure. The origin of the former moorland landscape is uncertain though this area is likely to be moorland by the Roman period (see Bevan 2003 for discussion of environmental evidence in region).