This area, currently occupied by early – mid twentieth century wharfage features has bee much altered in the past 160 years by reorganization of the navigation channel of the River Don. The south bank of this area includes a fragment of the area known as ‘common staith’ since the early post-medieval period (Daniell, C. in Lilley 1998 appendix 18) and probably an area of river frontage with historic common rights. Bisecting this area is the ‘New Cut’ of the South Yorkshire Navigation which replaced the ‘River Cheswold’ as the historic navigation channel in the 1840s. The Cheswold originally ran to the south of this course and was in-filled between 1891 and 1906 the new land being developed as light industrial buildings and warehouses in the early twentieth century. The undeveloped land to the north of the ‘New Cut’ was formerly part of the ‘marsh gate’ island formed between the course of the river Don – ‘Mill Dike’ and River Cheswold cuts depicted on historical mapping.