Small scale industrial estate that built up around the Municipal Refuse Destructor that was in place by 1931. Prior to this the site was used as a clay pit and brickworks. There was more than one phase of use as old clay pits were marked on 1893 maps that became an active works by 1906. Prior to the industrial activity this was an area of piecemeal enclosure that may have been part of the open fields west of Barnsley. By 1649 these fields had been enclosed as Barnsley is recorded as having four townfields called Churchfield, Old Mill Field and Swinhill field (Elliot 2002, 37). These are marked on historic maps north east of the town. The boundaries of the site give fragmentary legibility of the former field pattern and the former clay pits.