Decommissioned in the 1990s the only part of Thorpe Marsh power station still standing are its six cooling towers. The land was formerly the drained land of 'Thorpe Marsh' . The drainage of this land probably dated to the Parliamentary Enclosure award of 1768 for 'Thorpe Marsh (Thorpe in Balne)' (Sheffield Archives Catalogue Ref. LD 1122).