Most of the polygon is characterised by modern tin shed industrial buildings. These would have developed at some point after the closure of the Elsecar Collieries in 1983 (date from Taylor 2001, 122). Maps prior to 1989 show railway sidings, a goods yard and gas works on this area that would have been part of the colliery. The extensive railway sidings are first mapped in 1893; prior to this the Elsecar Canal basin stretch this far. The canal opened in 1798 (Glister 1995, 118). There is no legibility of the former communications uses of this site or the earlier piecemeal enclosures.