Hope Glassworks which was opened in 1867 by Ben Ryland who had previously been a partner in the Swinton glassworks (Ashurst 1992, 74). His son, Dan, continued the business and was responsible for many technological improvements in glassmaking including a semi automatic bottle making machine. Rylands were the largest makers of Codd mineral water bottles (Bayliss 1995, 18) and also owned the Dearne and Dove Glassworks in Wombwell. The Hope works closed in 1928 and in 1929 the site was bought by Beatson Clark who built a new glassworks in addition to their works at Masbrough (Ashurst 1992, 76). The modern buildings on the site replace earlier structures mostly overwriting the earlier phase of industry but there is fragmentary legibility of the layout of the early works in the road patterns. The glassworks closed in October 2006.