This polygon shows the course of the Midland Railway (dating to around 1870) where it crosses the Sheaf Valley and London Road on a massive and impressive stone retained embankment. At the top of this embankment was originally Heeley Station (now reused as the offices to a scrap yard). Other features are cast iron bridges, walled in public toilets, and the original entrance to the station lifts. Station closed mid twentieth century. The embankment occupies the site of Heeley Wheel (SMR 2755 & Crossley 1989, 107) first recorded as a grinding wheel in 1581 and converted to corn milling in the mid 19th century as well as much of the Elizabethan community of Heeley Bridgehouses that grew up around the old river crossing by the mill (see Kingston, 2004 chapter V for a full discussion).