The miners welfare recreation ground is contemporary with the estate. It is first depicted on the 1930 OS map. Prior to this the area was agricultural. The 1st edition OS map shows an area named Cliffe Field which appears to have been enclosed by parliamentary award, probably from the earlier open field. This part of Cliff Field was enclosed as two fields the boundaries of which are fossilised by the sports ground. The very southern area of the polygon contains the Bulls Head Inn, which is recorded at least as early as 1809. Legibility of the former landscape is fragmentary due to the fossilised boundaries.