Platt's Common Industrial estate first mapped in 1989. Built on land formerly occupied by Hoyland Silkstone Collieries which opened in 1876 (Goodchild 2001, 93). The colliery became part of Rockingham colliery in 1928 (Gill 2007). As part of the colliery complex there were coke ovens and a brick yard. Prior to this, the land was characterised by piecemeal enclosure of the medieval open fields around Hoyland. There is no legibility of the previous landscape.