Depot and warehousing built, by 1973 mapping, on the site of Wharncliffe Carlton Colliery. The colliery was opened in 1873 adjacent to the mainline railway. The colliery was opened by the Caiks who also worked East Gawber Hall Colliery and the coal was leased from the Earl of Wharncliffe. The colliery found it difficult to make money even after a change of lease holder. John Edey worked the mine until 1899 but retained the lease until 1908. (Goodchild 1998, 65-8). Prior to the colliery this was an area of semi regular fields that were probably enclosed from cleared woodland in the post-medieval period, some nearby areas of woodland survived until the early 20th century. There is no legibility of the pre colliery landscape but the route of the disused railway which bounded the colliery to the east survives.