In the 1840s there were large numbers of weaving cottages within this area with most buildings having between 2 and 3 looms per cottage. (Taylor 1995, 43). These would have been linen weaving cottages with basement workshops. There was also a timber yard marked on 1893 maps. Many of these building were replaced by late 19th/ early 20th century shops including the Barnsley Cooperative Store which was built in 1886 (Listed building Ref: 333763). Prior to the expansion of the town this was an area of irregular enclosure probably assarted from woodland at an early date. There is no legibility of the enclosure pattern and only fragmentary legibility of the former street pattern as the building of the ring road in the 1980s cut through the earlier pattern.