Commercial car sales. Prior to this the site was used as a clay pit that was marked on 1893 maps and was linked with the Brick works in HSY7968. Prior to the industrial activity this was an area of piecemeal enclosure that may have been part of the open fields west of Barnsley. By 1649 these fields had been enclosed as Barnsley is recorded as having four townfields called Churchfield, Old Mill Field and Swinhill field (Elliot 2002, 37). These are marked on historic maps north east of the town. The boundaries of the site give fragmentary legibility of the former clay pits.