The Elsecar branch of the Dearne and Dove Canal was completed in 1798 and started shipping coal from the adjacent Elsecar Collieries immediately (Glister 1995, 118). The planned construction of the canal had encouraged the expansion of industries in this area which had previously been isolated from a wider economic market (Medlicott 1987, 108). 1855 maps show a large number of coke ovens along the canal wharf as well as lime kilns. There was lime manufacturing at Elsecar prior to the building of the canal; some coal was transported to Kilnhurst and on to the Don Navigation using carts. The carts returned with loads of Limestone for burning (Medlicott 1998, 165). This trade would have shifted to the canal. The canal was closed in 1928 due to subsidence problems (Glister 1995, 120) and a sewage works was built on the site of former coke ovens by 1931mapping, this is now disused. Little of the industrial sites remain but the canal still holds water and is under restoration. There is no legibility of the former enclosed landscape.