Doncaster Local Plan: Archaeological Scoping Assessment
Allocation Reference: 632 Area (Ha): 0.10 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 8222 0014 Site Name: North Gate Working Men’s Club Settlement: Mexborough
Allocation Recommendations
Archaeological significance of site Negligible Historic landscape significance Negligible Suitability of site for allocation No archaeological constraint
Summary Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event - - Cropmark/Lidar evidence No No Cartographic features of interest No No Estimated sub-surface disturbance Extensive n/a
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Allocation Reference: 632 Area (Ha): 0.10 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 8222 0014 Site Name: North Gate Working Men’s Club Settlement: Mexborough
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR does not record any monuments or events within the site or buffer. There are no Listed Buildings or Scheduled Monuments within the site or buffer. Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and part of the buffer as part of a planned social housing estate, described as infill development dating to 1966-1988 with no legibility of earlier landscapes. Other character areas within the buffer include further social housing estate developments, earlier terraced housing, semi-detached housing, a school and allotments. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project did not record any features within the site or buffer. The site is currently occupied by ta social club. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The 1854 OS map depicts the site as lying within a network of rectangular enclosures to the north of Mexborough. By 1957, the Northgate Working Men’s Club & Institute had been built within the site. It was initially T-shaped in plan, extended by 1966 into a larger sub-rectangular structure. By 1980 the structure had extended further to take on its current form. Within the buffer, the area was shown as fields on the 1854 map, with housing development at the southern end by 1892. Housing development was shown to the east by 1903, and by 1957 suburban development had taken place throughout the buffer. Survival: The development of the social club, including any cellars and below ground services, will have disturbed below- ground deposits within its footprint. The potential for the survival of unrecorded buried archaeology is considered to be negligible. The standing buildings are of mid- to late 20th-century date and of no architectural interest. Further investigations: Further archaeological investigation is unlikely to be required if this site is brought forward for development. Significance: Negligible.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: Twenty-first century aerial photographs show the site as a rectangular structure with paved front off North Gate road. There is no Lidar coverage for this site. Photograph references: Google Earth coverage, 2002, 2008 & 2009.
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SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY5252 North Gate, Mexborough, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y Y HSY5189 Harlington Lane 'Poets Estate', Mexborough, Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y Doncaster HSY5194 Hirst Gate / Windmill Crescent, Mexborough, Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y Doncaster HSY5210 Windhill Estate, Mexborough, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y HSY5228 Clayfields Road Playing Fields, Mexborough, Playing Fields/ Recreation ground Y Doncaster HSY5249 Cross Gate, Mexborough, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y HSY5250 Allotment Gardens, Hall Gate, Mexborough, Allotments Y Doncaster HSY5251 'The Glen', Mexborough, Doncaster Playing Fields/ Recreation ground Y HSY5253 Cross Gate, Mexborough, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y HSY5260 Church Street Mexborough, Doncaster Semi-Detached Housing Y HSY5286 Riverside Road to Doncaster Court, Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y Mexborough HSY5288 Doncaster Road Junior School, Mexborough, School Y Doncaster
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Allocation Reference: 633 Area (Ha): 1.10 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 5662 0135 Site Name: Land at 41 Sandford Rd, Balby Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area
Allocation Recommendations
Archaeological significance of site Unknown Historic landscape significance Negligible Suitability of site for allocation Uncertain archaeological constraint
Summary Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event - - Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest No Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Partial n/a
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Allocation Reference: 633 Area (Ha): 1.10 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 5662 0135 Site Name: Land at 41 Sandford Rd, Balby Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR does not record any monuments or events within the site or the buffer zone. No Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings are recorded within the site or the buffer zone. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project did not record any features within the site. Earthwork ridge and furrow was recorded in 1946 to the southwest of the site, currently a playing field. Very faint earthworks are still visible in this area on Lidar data. The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as part of a playing field first depicted in 1931, with no legibility of the former strip field landscape. Sandford Road to the west formerly marked the eastern edge of settlement at Balby. Further character zones within the buffer include drained wetland, military barracks, a traveller community site, a sewage works, sports grounds, an area of heavy metal trades and other works which began to industrialise in the later 19th century, a mixture of housing types including terraces, semi-detached and planned social housing, allotment gardens, regenerated scrubland, a church, and suburban commercial core. The most recent imagery of the site (2009) shows it as a rectangular plot of land, bounded by Sandford Road to the west and playing fields to the south. The southeast half of the site is occupied by parking areas and a light modern shed or building, whilst the northwest half is grassed, subdivided by tall hedges, and contains a brick building, possibly a club house. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The 1854 map shows the site as two narrow fields, running southeast from Back Lane (now Sandford Lane). Only one field was shown on the 1892 map. The site remained unchanged until 1939, when the widening of Sandford Road formed the current western boundary. By 1960, the site had been divided into three, a larger southeast area and two smaller plots to the northwest, with a building, probably a house, in the northwest plot. This was labelled 'Tuby' in 1960 and Mariton Villa in 1977. A lane ran along the northern edge of the site. By 1994, a larger building was shown in the southeast plot. Within the buffer, the 1854 map showed the area to the south, east and northeast as fields, with settlement in the historic core of Balby to the west of Back Lane and in the northwest part of the buffer. This included St John's Church. By 1903, new housing, mainly terraces, was shown to the northwest and west, with further construction, including in the northeast part of the buffer by 1930. A confectionery works was shown to the north of the site at that date, and a club was shown to the immediate west of the site, with playing fields to the south and allotment gardens to the east. By 1939, the buildings to the east of Sandford Road had been cleared and the road widened. In 1961, housing was shown to the south of the playing fields, with allotment gardens to the north and east of the site. A caravan park was shown to the immediate southeast of the site in 1994. Survival: The southeast side of the site is a car park, with a modern shed building that is unlikely to have caused substantial sub-surface disturbance. The northwest side contains a house, possibly on a raised platform, and garden areas. With the exception of the footprint of the building, the potential for the preservation of unrecorded buried archaeology within the site is considered to be moderate. Further investigations: Further archaeological investigations may be required if the site is brought forward for development. Significance: Unknown.
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Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: The 2002-2009 aerial photographs show the site in much the same layout as in 1992. The southeast half is mainly a car parking area (labelled 'mobile home park' on the modern OS mapping) and a light modern shed, possibly facilities for the mobile home park. The northeast half is divided into two plots by manicured hedges, though the central plot is open to the road. The northeast plot contains a brick-built building, possibly the house shown in 1961. The 2015 image is obscured by clouds, though Street View images from this date show the house as a one and a half storey brick structure of fairly modern appearance. The Lidar data shows the location of the building in the car park, and a mound or platform adjacent to the northwest boundary, possibly indicating the house was built on a platform, or that it has been demolished, as this mound is not shown on the aerial photographs. Photograph references: Google Earth coverage 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009 & 2015. Google Street View 2015. Lidar data tile SE5601 DTM 1m. RAF/CPE/UK/1880 5102 06-Dec-1946.
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY5426 Sandford Road, Balby, Doncaster Playing Fields/ Recreation ground Y Y HSY4232 Balby, Loversall and Potteric Carr, Doncaster Drained Wetland Y HSY5277 Balby Carr Bank, Doncaster Metal Trades (Heavy) Y HSY5405 Balby Sewage Works, Balby, Doncaster Utilities Y HSY5417 Woodfield Road, Balby, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y HSY5418 Lambeth Road, Balby, Doncaster Allotments Y HSY5428 Sandford Road, Balby, Doncaster Allotments Y HSY5430 Lambeth Road, Balby Doncaster Romany or other Traveller Y Community site HSY5432 Sandford Road, Balby, Doncaster Regenerated Scrubland Y HSY5460 Lambeth, Road, Balby, Doncaster Allotments Y HSY5466 Balby Road, Balby, Doncaster School Y HSY5467 Burton Avenue, Balby, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y HSY5468 Lister Avenue, Balby, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y HSY5475 St. John's, Balby, Doncaster Religious (Worship) Y HSY5476 St John's Road, Balby, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y HSY5484 Balby Road, Balby, Doncaster Commercial Core-Suburban Y HSY5811 Balby historic core, Balby, Doncaster Commercial Core-Suburban Y HSY5812 Furnival Road, Balby, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y HSY5814 Greenfield Lane, Balby, Doncaster Semi-Detached Housing Y HSY6001 Scarborough Barracks, Doncaster Barracks Y
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Allocation Reference: 634 Area (Ha): 0.76 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SK 5044 9935 Site Name: Land adj. Balby St Junior & Infant School Settlement: Denaby
Allocation Recommendations
Archaeological significance of site Negligible Historic landscape significance Negligible Suitability of site for allocation No archaeological constraint
Summary Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - 1 SMR record/event - 1 record/2 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence Yes Yes Cartographic features of interest No Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Extensive n/a
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Allocation Reference: 634 Area (Ha): 0.76 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SK 5044 9935 Site Name: Land adj. Balby St Junior & Infant School Settlement: Denaby
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR does not record any monuments or events within the site. One monument and two events are recorded within the buffer. The monument is a set of stone sleeper blocks associated with a cable incline taking limestone from a quarry to lime kilns. The events comprised a geophysical survey which identified features possibly associated with former field systems, and a watching brief which did not identify any archaeological deposits. No Scheduled Monument or listed buildings are within the site. One grade II listed building, St Alban’s Church, is within the buffer. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project recorded 20th- century air raid shelters within both the site and the buffer. In the site, they are located at the southeast and southwest corners. These may have been impacted by recent development at the site. To the southeast of the site are several lynchets at North Cliff Hill, recorded as earthworks. Historic Environment Characterisation records the character of the site and part of the buffer as schools, developed in the late 1940s. Further character zones within the buffer include unenclosed land at North Cliff Hill to the south, with allotment gardens and school playing fields at the southern edge, modern planned social housing estate to the north and northeast, and playing fields and allotment gardens to the west. The most recent imagery of the site (2015) showed it as being under development. It was formerly occupied by a school. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The 1854 map shows the site as part of fields of irregular appearance, probably enclosed in a piecemeal fashion from medieval open field. This was unchanged in 1902, but by 1930 the central and eastern parts of the site were occupied by a school, with three separate buildings shown in a separate enclosure at the western side and a fourth in a further enclosure in the northwest corner. The 1962 map shows the school as Balby Street primary school, with two different buildings to the west and northwest. By 1990, the school had been demolished and site was shown as an enclosed vacant plot with a small building at the northwest corner. The 1854 map shows irregular fields and unenclosed land across the whole of the buffer, with no development apart from a railway line along the northern edge. A sandstone quarry was shown at North Cliff Hill. By 1892, an inclined plane was shown to the west of the site, leading from North Cliff Quarry to limekilns close to Doncaster Road. Terraced housing had been built at the northwest edge of the buffer. By 1902, further terraced housing had been built up to the north edge of the site, with most of the remainder of the buffer being fields and unenclosed land. The 1930 map showed a Mission Room to the west of the site and allotment gardens to the east and further to the west and northwest. The limekilns and inclined plane were no longer shown, with further development having occurred along Doncaster Road. By 1975, the terraced housing to the north had been demolished, though the road layout was still shown and a new school had been built on the former allotments to the east. The former terraced housing site had been redeveloped with a new housing estate by 1994. Survival: The site has been developed in the 20th century, with school buildings covering most of the site in 1930. These were demolished in the late 20th century, and housing construction appeared to be underway at the site in 2015. The construction and demolition are likely to have disturbed sub-surface deposits across the site, and the potential for the survival of unrecorded buried archaeology is considered to be negligible. Further investigations: No further archaeological investigations are likely to be required if the site is brought forward for development.
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Significance: Negligible.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: The 2002 aerial photograph showed the site as rough grass on the western side and concrete or tarmac surfacing on the eastern side, around the remains of a possible structure comprising two towers and a wall, probably the remains of the former school building. By 2015, the site appears to be under redevelopment, having been stripped of topsoil with completed and under construction buildings in the centre and along the eastern and southern sides. These appear to be houses, though the image resolution of this photograph is very poor. There is no available Lidar data for this site. Photograph references: Google Earth 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009 & 2015. Photos transcribed by the Magnesian Limestone Mapping Project: Air raid shelters: RAF/CPE/UK/2011 5375 16-Apr-1947; Lynchets: MAL/67023 0024 31-Mar-1967.
Statutory Designations Reference Name Designation/ Site? Buffer? ID Grade 1192900 Church of St Alban with attached presbytery II Y
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 04584/01 North Cliff Quarry Double track of limestone blocks worked as cable incline from Y Stoneway quarry to lime kilns ESY1440 Geophysical survey Geophysical survey undertaken at the site of De Warenne Y at De Warenne Academy in Conisbrough. A number of linear anomalies, Academy, probably representing former field systems, were identified in Conisbrough, South the northern part of the survey area. Yorkshire ESY1441 Watching brief 10 machine excavated trial pits and 12 hand excavated test Y during geotechnical pits were monitored. No archaeological remains were investigations, identified. Conisbrough
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY5420 St Albans RC and Balby Street Schools, School Y Y Conisbrough / Denaby Main, Doncaster HSY5324 Allotment Gardens north east of Conanby, Allotments Y Conisborough, Doncaster HSY5325 Northcliffe School playing fields, School Y Conisborough, Doncaster HSY5326 North Cliff Hill (Conisbrough Crags), Commons and greens Y Conisbrough, Doncaster
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HSY5363 Denaby Main East, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y HSY5367 Denaby Main Miners Welfare Recreation Playing Fields/ Recreation ground Y Grounds, Denaby Main, Doncaster HSY5369 Allotment Gardens south of Denaby Main, Allotments Y Doncaster HSY5384 Former housing area around site of Providence Regenerated Scrubland Y Glassworks, Conisbrough, Doncaster HSY5386 North east of Kilner Bridge, Conisbrough, Commercial Core-Suburban Y Doncaster HSY5421 Crags Road, Denaby Main, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y HSY5423 Church Road, Denaby Main, Doncaster Semi-Detached Housing Y
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Allocation Reference: 646 Area (Ha): 9.97 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SK 5488 9940 Site Name: Former Yorkshire Main Site, Edlington Lane Settlement: Edlington
Allocation Recommendations
Archaeological significance of site Negligible Historic landscape significance Negligible Suitability of site for allocation No archaeological constraint
Summary Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event - - Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest No No Estimated sub-surface disturbance Partial n/a
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Allocation Reference: 646 Area (Ha): 9.97 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SK 5488 9940 Site Name: Former Yorkshire Main Site, Edlington Lane Settlement: Edlington
Site assessment Known assets/character: There are no SMR records within the site or the buffer zone. There are no Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings within the site or the buffer zone. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project records the site as being within the extent of a 20th century spoil heap. Extensive post-medieval ridge and furrow earthworks have been recorded to the north of the site, and fragmentary traces of the same to the south of the site. Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as a spoil heap, associated with the Yorkshire Main Colliery at New Edlington. The pit shaft was sunk in 1909 and the spoil heap presumably started accumulating at about this time. Prior to the spoil heap, the area was agricultural, enclosed by a parliamentary award, probably in the mid-18th century, from Warmsworth Common. Legibility of the former landscape is invisible. Character areas within the buffer zone include enclosed land, agglomerated fields, a business park and houses, amongst others. The site is an irregular parcel of land, located at the north-eastern end of New Edlington. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The site is shown on the 1854 map as a number of strip fields. Broom House Lane to the south, and Lord’s Head Lane to the west, were already extant at this time. By 1930 all of the field boundaries within and around the site had been removed, and the site was located within a triangular parcel of land bounded by the two lanes mentioned above, and a newly created line of the Dearne Valley Railway. Numerous tracks and sidings of the mineral railway associated with Yorkshire Main Colliery, which was located to the west of the site, ran through the site at this time. A small engine house was located at the eastern end of the site and a spoil heap was marked adjacent to Broom House Lane. By 1956 the railways tracks were still present within the site, and the reminder of the site was all marked as a slag heap. The railways tracks which ran through the site had been removed by 1994, although the spoil heaps were still present. The majority of the site was part of strip fields in 1854, labelled Wadsworth Common to the east. Aldam Plantation was present to the southeast of the site, with a small limestone quarry to the west. By 1930 many of the strip fields around the site had been removed. Yorkshire Main Colliery had been established to the west of the site and a sewage works had been built to the north of the site. A miner’s welfare ground had been created to the west of the site, which included a cricket and football pitch. The spoil heap which was present within the site had spread significantly to the south by 1966. By 1994 the colliery had been removed and a small industrial estate had been built to the south of its location, although much of the area which the colliery occupied was empty at this time. Survival: The site was in agricultural use from the mid-18th century onwards, and by 1930 contained numerous sidings and railways tracks associated with the Yorkshire Main Colliery. A spoil heap was gradually created within the site, shown as occupying the entire site and beyond on the 1956 map. The construction of the railway track is likely to have caused some minimal below-ground impact. The weight of the large spoil heaps on the site, and their eventual clearance of them with heavy machinery, the tracks of which can be identified within aerial photographs, is likely to have caused moderate to severe damage to any buried archaeological remains on the site. As such, the potential for the survival of unrecorded buried archaeological remains on the site is considered to be low. Further investigations: Further archaeological investigation is unlikely to be required if the site is brought forward for development.
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Significance: Negligible.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: Twenty-first century aerial photographs show that the spoil heaps within the site had been removed by 2002, and regeneration of the land had begun around the site. Within the site itself the land had not been regenerated, and in 2009 it remained as what appears to be un-vegetated, with clear machine tracks traversing across the site. Aerial photographs from 2015 are obscured by heavy cloud cover, hence the recent condition of the site is unknown. The site boundary is irregular and is formed by the separation of reclaimed land that lies outside of the site boundary, and unreclaimed land, which comprises the site. There is no available Lidar data for the site. Photograph references: Google Earth images 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2015. RAF/541/170 3229 21-Sep-1948, RAF/58/899 5145 19-Jun-1952, OS/89258 0010 11-Jun-1989.
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY4363 Lord's Head Lane, New Edlington, Doncaster Spoil Heap Y Y HSY4358 Broomhouse Lane, New Edlington, Doncaster Spoil Heap Y HSY4361 Alverley Grange, Edlington, Doncaster Piecemeal Enclosure Y HSY5578 Warmsworth Sewage Works, Warmsworth, Utilities Y Doncaster HSY5579 Common Lane, Warmsworth, Doncaster Surveyed Enclosure Y (Parliamentary/ Private) HSY5580 Common Lane, Warmsworth, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y HSY5607 Broomhouse Lane, Alverley, Doncaster Plantation Y HSY5612 Grange Lane, Alverley, Doncaster Nursery Y HSY5613 Miners Welfare Ground, Edlington, Doncaster Playing Fields/ Recreation ground Y HSY5655 Broomhouse Lane Industrial Estate, Edlington, Business Park Y Doncaster HSY5656 'Cricket Estate', Edlington, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y HSY5659 Broom House Farm, Edlington, Doncaster Farm Complex Y
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Allocation Reference: 648 Area (Ha): 0.16 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 5390 0879 Site Name: Land at Fern Bank, Adwick le Street Settlement: Adwick le Street/Woodlands
Allocation Recommendations
Archaeological significance of site Local Historic landscape significance Negligible Suitability of site for allocation Uncertain archaeological constraint
Summary Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - 3 SMR record/event - 6 records/2 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence Yes Yes Cartographic features of interest Yes Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Extensive n/a
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Allocation Reference: 648 Area (Ha): 0.16 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 5390 0879 Site Name: Land at Fern Bank, Adwick le Street Settlement: Adwick le Street/Woodlands
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR does not record any monuments or events within the site. Within the buffer, six monuments and two events have been recorded. The monuments include a post-medieval corn mill to the east of the site, and the edge of an area of Iron Age to Roman field systems and settlement at the west edge of the buffer. The remainder of the monuments are in the southern part of the buffer and comprise a timber-framed barn and dovecot, the medieval and later St Laurence’s Church, the site of Adwick Hall and a field containing possible remains of a shrunken medieval village. The two events relate to the recording of the corn mill during restoration works. No Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings are located within the site. Three listed buildings are within the buffer, the grade II* listed church of St Laurence and a grade II listed cholera monument within the church, and the grade II listed corn mill to the east. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project records plough- levelled ridge and furrow (possibly medieval rather than post-medieval) within the northern half of the site and continuing into the buffer, on land now developed. Further ridge and furrow remains are located at the southwest of the buffer zone, and an Iron Age to Roman ditch was recorded in the western part, again in an area that has since been developed. Historic Environment Characterisation records the southern part of the site as part of an area of modern villas/residential housing, with the northern edge being part of a modern private housing estate. Historic landfill data records a wide strip of infilled ground at Mill Lane in the eastern part of the buffer, along the route of the railway. The site is currently a vacant plot of land between developed plots, fronting onto Fern Lane. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The 1851 OS map shows the majority of the site as two building plots within a strip of development to the north of Mill Lane. The eastern plot was occupied by a U-shaped range of buildings arranged around the south, east and north sides of a yard. The western plot contained one larger building in the middle of the plot and a building at the rear that appeared to be an extension of the U-shaped range. This layout may indicate a farmhouse to the west with barns and outbuildings to the east. This area was at the north end of the developed part of the village. The northern edge of the site was part of a field to the north. The boundary between the buildings and the field was marked as a possible parish boundary, perhaps defining a detached part of another parish. The 1930 map showed the building on the street frontage as divided into two houses. All the structures apart from these two houses were demolished between 1955 and 1961, their location being shown as vacant ground. The two houses had been demolished by 1982, when there were also no buildings shown to the east along Mill Lane. The boundary between the former houses and the field was still shown, with the current northern site boundary only being established between 1982 and 2002, when housing was built within the fields to the north. Within the buffer, the 1851 map shows the core of the village of Adwick le Street to the south of the site, with only a few buildings in a group to the east of the site being to the north of Mill Lane. Adwick corn mill was shown to the east, and the area to the north and west was fields reminiscent of enclosure from medieval open field. Red House Lane was shown in the western part of the buffer. Adwick Hall in the southern part of the buffer had been demolished by 1892. Several buildings, including a Methodist Chapel, had been built along Mill Lane to the west of the site by 1930. Ribbon development along Tenter Balk Lane was shown at the southwest side of the buffer in 1961, and some buildings in the village centre had been demolished and redeveloped, with further development by 1981. Housing had extended north along Red House Lane by that date, and most of the field boundaries in the area to the north of Mill Lane had been removed to create a larger field.
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Survival: The site was occupied by buildings, possibly a farmhouse and outbuildings, in the mid-19th century, with these structures demolished in the 20th century. This is likely to have disturbed sub-surface deposits within the site; however, remains of footings and floor levels associated with the buildings may survive in good condition. Further investigations: Further investigations may be required if the site is brought forward for development. Significance: Remains associated with the former buildings on the site could be considered to be of Local archaeological significance, depending on their date of construction and extent of preservation.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: The 2002 aerial photographs show the site as vacant ground, with hardcore or dumped material at the southeast side, possibly derived from the demolition of the houses or from the construction of new buildings to the east. The former northern boundary of the old building plots was visible within the site as either a bank or hedging, with some trees in the area to the north. This boundary was no longer visible by 2003, when the trees had been cleared and the whole site was under rough grass. There were no further changes by 2015, apart from the regeneration of scrub and trees along the northern side of the site. Lidar data shows the site as uneven ground, though no clear earthwork features relating to former buildings can be identified. The irregularity of the earthworks may indicate the dumping of rubble during the demolition of the buildings. Photograph references: Google Earth coverage 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2015. Lidar data file SE5308. RAF/F22/543/9 0082 19-Jun-1957; RAF/543/9F22 0082 19-Jun-1957; OS/92255 0072 20-Jul-1992.
Statutory Designations Reference Name Designation/ Site? Buffer? ID Grade 1151473 Church of St Laurence II* Y 1151475 Cholera memorial against east wall of chancel to Church of St II Y Laurence 1314853 Mill building attached to Mill House and tail rail tunnel arch II Y beneath Mill House
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 00383/01 St Lawrence's Norman and later church, over-restored 1862. The church is Y Church, Adwick le curiously oriented 40 degrees to the northeast, and the Street surrounding field boundaries point in the same direction. There are four medieval cross slabs or fragments of slabs present at the church. 02219/01 Post-Medieval Corn mill, probably 1786 (date on house), altered. 3 storeys. Y Water Powered Rear - to left of wing is a tail-race tunnel (passing beneath the Corn Mill, Adwick- house). le-Street
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02691/01 Iron Age or Apparently coherent remains of a dispersed settlement and Y Romano-British associated agricultural features, to the east of the 'Roman trackways, Ridge' Roman road. enclosures and field system, Adwick-le-Street 03575/01 Post-Medieval Barn At the north end of village street there is a late 17th century Y and Dovecote, barn with dovecote in the southern gable. Adwick-le-Street 03672/01 Site of Adwick Hall, Adwick Hall (site of). The hall was built in 1673 and demolished Y Adwick-le-Street c.1866, now within a park. 03673/01 Possible Shrunken The field containing a moated site (PIN 00391) is full of Y Medieval earthwork remains, perhaps representing structures (perhaps Settlement, an SMV?). However, they have only been looked at from a Adwick-le-Street / distance and not in any detail. Bentley ESY1551 Building survey of Photographic recording and production of a ground plan were Y Adwick Mill made at Adwick Mill in March 1993. ESY1562 The Old Mill, The original floor levels were lowered in the presence of Y Aldwick Le Street SYAFRU members who recovered fragments of pig jaw, leather Watching Brief shoe soles, a small ceramic jug, two pieces of door hinge and a decorated glass bottle. No other significant archaeological features were noted.
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY4912 Kingfisher Road, Adwick le Street, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y Y HSY4914 Village Street (north end0, Adwick le Street, Villas/ Detached Housing Y Y Doncaster HSY253 Ings, Carcroft Surveyed Enclosure Y (Parliamentary/ Private) HSY4910 Lutterworth Drive, Adwick Le Street, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y HSY4911 Bosworth Road and Whinfell Close, Adwick le Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y Street, Doncaster HSY4913 The Park, Adwick le Street, Doncaster Public Park Y HSY4915 St Lawrence's Church, Adwick le Street, Religious (Worship) Y Doncaster HSY4916 Adwick Mill, Adwick le Street, Doncaster Water Powered Site Y HSY4917 Land south west of Mill Brook, Adwick le Valley Floor Meadows Y Street, Doncaster HSY5730 School and municipal buildings Adwick le School Y Street, Doncaster
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Allocation Reference: 649 Area (Ha): 0.43 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SK 5524 9368 Site Name: Rock House, Holme Hall Lane, Stainton Settlement: Stainton
Allocation Recommendations
Archaeological significance of site Local Historic landscape significance Negligible Suitability of site for allocation Uncertain archaeological constraint
Summary Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - 1 SMR record/event 1 record 3 records/1 event Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest Yes Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Partial n/a
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Allocation Reference: 649 Area (Ha): 0.43 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SK 5524 9368 Site Name: Rock House, Holme Hall Lane, Stainton Settlement: Stainton
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR does not record any events or monuments within the site, though one of the monuments recorded in the buffer, the location of the demolished 17th-century Rock House, is poorly located and should be within the site. One findspot, two monuments and one event are recorded within the buffer. A leaf shaped arrowhead was located near Enfield House. Within the north part of the buffer is the Old Vicarage, an 18th-century building which possibly incorporates an older structure. In the south of the buffer, building recording was carried out on the 19th-century farm buildings of Manor Farm, which is also a monument. No Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings are located within the site. One grade II* listed building, the Church of St Winifred, is located just inside the eastern edge of the buffer. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project records one area of post medieval ridge and furrow in the west of the buffer. Historic Landscape Characterisation records the site and a strip of the northern part of the buffer as within an area of modern detached housing dating from 1967-1981. There is no legibility of the former piecemeal enclosure landscape. Directly north of the site are a group of 18th/19th century vernacular cottages and villas which retain earlier property boundaries, and beyond this, an area of modern detached housing. Directly south of the site is an area of modern residential housing and beyond this lies the historic core of Stainton, formed of a farm complex dating to the late 17th-century, surrounded by medieval settlement remains. The northeast part of the buffer is an area of irregularly-shaped fields around Stainton Little Wood, possibly created through forest clearance, though boundary loss has led to a loss of legibility of the former landscape. To the south and west is an area of surveyed enclosure. At the far southern edge of the buffer is Maltby Colliery spoil heap. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The 1854 OS map shows buildings within the eastern half of the site, possibly a farm and outbuildings, with a rectangular structure on the southern frontage (Stainton Lane) and a linear range and U-shaped complex leading off Holme Hall Lane on the eastern side. A pump was shown within a yard towards the southeast corner. The western half of the site comprised two small garden or orchard plots along Stainton Lane and a larger field behind, which extended out of the site to the west. The 1892 map showed the complex as Rock House, which may have been the building fronting onto Stainton Lane, with the rear ranges being outbuildings. By 1930, an open-sided building was shown within the field at the western side of the site, and some infilling of the outbuildings to the north was depicted. The open-sided building had been removed by 1962. By 1981, the Rock House complex had been demolished and two new square buildings, labelled Well House, were shown in the northeast part of the site, and the western site boundary had been created. This layout remained unchanged in 1994. Within the buffer, the 1854 map showed the historic core of Stainton as dispersed small groups of buildings to the north and east of the site, set within a complex of lanes. The Ruddle Dike ran through the buffer, and the remainder of the area was fields with sinuous boundaries suggestive of piecemeal enclosure from open field. A Methodist Chapel was shown to the northeast of the site by 1892. Small numbers of new houses and a school were shown in 1962, with further housing built to the north and south of the site by 1981, though the area remains rural in character. Survival: Modern buildings occupy the eastern part of the site, and are likely to have removed or disturbed any remains of the Rock House outbuildings within their footprint. Buried remains of the building shown in 1854 along the southern boundary (possibly Rock House itself, recorded as a 17th-century building on the SMR) may have survived with relatively little disturbance. No substantial disturbance has been recorded within the western part of the site, and the potential for the survival of unrecorded buried archaeology in this area is considered to be
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moderate. Further investigations: Further archaeological investigations are likely to be required if this site is brought forward for development. Significance: Remains associated with the 17th-century Rock House could be considered to be of Local archaeological significance.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: Aerial photographs from 1999 show the modern buildings on the eastern side of the site, with access from the south from Stainton Lane and from the east from Holme Hall Lane. The western side of the site comprises a lawn bounded by trees and hedgerow. There is no available LiDAR data for the site. Photograph references: Google Earth: 1999, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009. Bing Maps: 2016. RAF/CPE/UK/1880 3349 06-Dec-1946.
Statutory Designations Reference Name Designation/ Site? Buffer? ID Grade 1286289 Church of St Winifred II* Y
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 02165/01 17th Century Rock Rock House- house of 17th century and later appearance. Y House, Stainton Demolished c.1969. Lane, Stainton 04241/01 The Old Vicarage, 18th century vicarage which possibly incorporates an earlier Y Stainton structure. 04446/01 Leaf-shaped Leaf-shaped Arrowhead Find, near Enfield House, Stainton. Y Arrowhead found near Enfield House 05603 19th century farm Open shelter sheds, stables, barns and cart sheds Y buildings, Manor Farm, Stainton ESY1357 Building recording Buiilding recording of 19th century farm buildings at Manor Y at Manor Farm Farm. These comprised open shelter sheds, stables, barns and Barns, Stainton cart sheds.
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY5985 Housing around Stainton village, Doncaster Villas/ Detached Housing Y Y HSY3199 Maltby Colliery Spoil Heap (2), Rotherham Spoil Heap Y HSY4153 Stainton Little Wood, Stainton Ancient Woodland Y HSY4162 Wood Lane, Stainton Assarts Y
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HSY4294 Scotch Spring Lane, Stainton Bottams, Surveyed Enclosure Y Doncaster (Parliamentary/ Private) HSY5978 Stainton historic core, Doncaster Farm Complex Y HSY5979 St Wilfred's Church, Stainton, Doncaster Religious (Worship) Y HSY5980 Stainton Lane & School Lane, Stainton Private Housing Estate Y HSY5981 Stainton (north end), Doncaster. Vernacular Cottages Y
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Allocation Reference: 654 Area (Ha): 0.16 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 5662 0159 Site Name: 163 Balby Rd, Balby Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area
Allocation Recommendations
Archaeological significance of site Local Historic landscape significance Uncertain Suitability of site for allocation Uncertain archaeological constraint
Summary Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event - - Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest Yes Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Extensive n/a
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Allocation Reference: 654 Area (Ha): 0.16 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 5662 0159 Site Name: 163 Balby Rd, Balby Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR does not record any monuments or events within the site or the buffer zone. No Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings are recorded within the site or the buffer zone. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project did not record any features within the site. Earthwork ridge and furrow was recorded in 1946 at the very southern edge of the buffer. The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as a school, first depicted in 1892 and more lately reused by a conservation organisation. Further character zones within the buffer include military barracks, a traveller community site, playing fields, a, a mixture of terraced and semi-detached housing, allotment gardens, regenerated scrubland, another school, a church, and suburban commercial core. The most recent imagery (2015) shows the site as occupied by a 19th-century school building, with a small area of tarmac surfacing to the east. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The 1854 map shows the site as a small field to the west of the Swan Inn, at the junction of Balby Road and Back Lane. The school was shown by 1892, as a roughly U-shaped building set back from the Back Lane and Balby Road frontage. It sat within land divided into two plots, possibly suggesting separate girls' and boys' schools, with a narrow building to the southeast, probably a privy block, likewise crossing the two plots of land. By 1930, the land division was only shown to the front of the school, with the area to the rear being a single plot. The current western site boundary was formed by 1938, when Sandford Road was widened. By 1961, the toilet block to the rear was no longer shown, and the school building had been slightly extended. By 1977, the school was shown as an 'immigrants teaching centre', and an electricity sub-station was shown in the southeast corner. Within the buffer, the 1854 map showed the area to the east and south of the site as fields, nurseries to the northwest, and settlement concentrated to the southeast of the site in the historic core of Balby. A National School was shown within the western part of the buffer, behind St John's Church. By 1892, new terraced housing had been built in the northeast, west and southwest parts of the buffer, with further housing to the east by 1903. By 1930 most of the buffer apart from the area to the southeast was occupied by terraced housing. To the southeast were allotment gardens and a confectionery works. The 1938 map showed that many of the buildings to the south of the site had been demolished for the widening of Sandford Road. By 1961, some new buildings were shown to the south of the school, with allotment gardens to the southeast. The layout was largely unchanged by 1992. Survival: The construction of the school is likely to have caused significant sub-surface disturbance, and the potential for the preservation of unrecorded buried archaeology within the site is considered to be negligible to low. The standing buildings are of later 19th-century date, and may constitute a heritage asset in their own right. Further investigations: No further investigations associated with buried archaeology are likely to be required if the site is allocated for development. An assessment of the significance of the standing school buildings would assist is assessing the site’s capacity for housing development. Significance: The school buildings are of late 19th century date, and are likely to be considered of Local heritage significance.
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Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: The 2002-2015 aerial photographs show the school building covering the majority of the site, with a small tarmac area to the southwest, used for car parking in 2002 but probably formerly the playground. No changes were shown within the site from the aerial views, but parking was not shown after 2002, and the 2015 Street View imagery shows the school as boarded up. The buildings are single storey to the Balby Road frontage, with the rear range being two storey, as the ground slopes downwards. They are brick built, with mainly pitched roofs and projecting brick gables. They are in a typical late 19th-century style, with stone sills and lintels, and the gable-end windows featuring arched detailing. Lidar data does not show any features other than the school building. Photograph references: Google Earth coverage 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009 & 2015. Google Street View 2015. Lidar data tile SE5601 DTM 1m. RAF/CPE/UK/1880 5102 06-Dec-1946.
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY5466 Balby Road, Balby, Doncaster School Y Y HSY5426 Sandford Road, Balby, Doncaster Playing Fields/ Recreation ground Y HSY5428 Sandford Road, Balby, Doncaster Allotments Y HSY5430 Lambeth Road, Balby Doncaster Romany or other Traveller Y Community site HSY5432 Sandford Road, Balby, Doncaster Regenerated Scrubland Y HSY5460 Lambeth, Road, Balby, Doncaster Allotments Y HSY5467 Burton Avenue, Balby, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y HSY5468 Lister Avenue, Balby, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y HSY5474 King Edward Road, Balby, Doncaster School Y HSY5475 St. John's, Balby, Doncaster Religious (Worship) Y HSY5476 St John's Road, Balby, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y HSY5484 Balby Road, Balby, Doncaster Commercial Core-Suburban Y HSY5485 Westfield Road, Balby, Doncaster Semi-Detached Housing Y HSY5811 Balby historic core, Balby, Doncaster Commercial Core-Suburban Y HSY5814 Greenfield Lane, Balby, Doncaster Semi-Detached Housing Y HSY6001 Scarborough Barracks, Doncaster Barracks Y
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Allocation Reference: 662 Area (Ha): 51.70 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SK 6033 9854 Site Name: Former Rossington Colliery, West End Lane Settlement: Rossington
Allocation Recommendations
Archaeological significance of site Negligible Historic landscape significance Negligible Suitability of site for allocation No archaeological constraint
Summary Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event 1 record 1 record/1 event Cropmark/Lidar evidence Yes Yes Cartographic features of interest Yes No Estimated sub-surface disturbance Extensive n/a
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Allocation Reference: 662 Area (Ha): 51.70 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SK 6033 9854 Site Name: Former Rossington Colliery, West End Lane Settlement: Rossington
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR records one monument within the site, the location of Rossington Main Colliery, sunk in 1912. It began operating in 1916 and closed in 2003. One event is recorded within the north and northwest parts of the buffer zone, fieldwalking and geophysical survey undertaken along the route of a new road, which identified field boundaries and enclosures of probable Iron Age or Roman date, and two flint artefacts. No Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings are recorded within the site or buffer zone. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project recorded the site of Rossington Main Colliery within the site and buffer zone. Historic Environment Characterisation records five character zones within the site, most associated with Rossington Main Colliery. The southwest and east central areas are recorded as the site of the pit-head buildings and infrastructure, with spoil heaps to the south, east and north. The southeast edge is characterised as ancient woodland, whilst the northern tip is within a large area of agglomerated fields that covers the north and west sides of the buffer. Further character zones within the buffer comprise Bankwood Industrial Estate and allotment gardens to the northeast, the planned colliery village of New Rossington to the east, and further agglomerated fields to the southwest. Historic Landfill data records two areas of tipping within the site, one within the southern side of the site and relating to former slurry ponds for the mine, and one covering the northern tip of the site, called Bankwood Allotments. Within the eastern part of the buffer are two more tip sites, a Coal Board tip within Holmes Carr Great Wood and the Rossington Dumpit Site. The most recent clear imagery of the site (2012) shows colliery spoil across the northeast and southern parts of the site, with the footings of former buildings visible in the northwest area, a former railway line and Rossington Drain running through the centre of the site, and rough grass, probably also over colliery spoil, at the northern tip. The western boundary of the site is formed by the canalised route of the River Torne, and the eastern boundary by a drainage ditch. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The 1854 OS map depicts the western half and southeast end of the site as part of regular enclosures within an area called Holmes Carr. The River Torne ran along the western boundary in a canalised route, and Rossington Drain ran through the centre of the site on a roughly north-south alignment. The northeast part of the site was within Pheasant Bank wood, with part of Holmes Carr Great Wood extending into the southeast part of the site. West End Lane crossed the eastern part of the site, up to Rossington Drain. By 1930, Rossington Main Colliery had been constructed within the central part of the site, including shafts, tanks and an engine house and cooling tower, with extensive railway sidings to the east, associated with a mineral railway that ran alongside and east of the Rossington Drain. Railway lines from the pit head buildings ran through the northern part of the site, and spoil had been dumped on the southwest part of the site. Pheasant Bank was shown as rough pasture and scrub at that date, whilst the southeast part of the site was still fields. By 1948, works buildings associated with the colliery were shown at the southern end of Pheasant Bank, north of West End Lane. The pit head buildings were more expansive by 1962, with further railway lines connecting them to the mineral railway. The buildings in Pheasant Bank Wood were not labelled, but may have included baths. Spoil tipping had extended into the southeast part of the site by that date. By 1973, the northwest part of the site was covered with new buildings, including a coal carbonisation plan with numerous tanks and a gasholder. The former Pheasant Bank had a railway line running into it and linear embankments across the eastern side, and a conveyor and large 'bunker' at the western side. Further conveyors and hoppers were shown in the southeast part of the site, and a slurry pond was located to the south of the pit-head buildings. The coal carbonisation plant had been removed by 1989. Within the buffer, the 1854 map showed Holmes Carr Great Wood extending to the southeast and Low Plantation to the northwest. The remaining area was fields, all appearing to be regular enclosures within an area
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of former wetland, possibly drained and enclosed as part of Vermuyden's 17th-century drainage scheme. The area to the northwest of the site was called Low Flanders, and the whole area formed part of Potteric Carr. By 1930, housing at New Rossington colliery village had extended into the eastern edge of the buffer, and the former Low Plantation, now labelled Blackwood Plantation, was shown as rough pasture and scrub. The 1956 map showed further housing to the east of Pheasant Bank and a sewage works in the northeast part of the buffer, with the colliery spoil heaps expanding to the south of the site. By 1989, an industrial estate had begun to develop to the east of Pheasant Bank and slurry ponds were shown to the southeast of the site. Survival: The entire site has been covered by either spoil heaps or colliery buildings, with slurry ponds excavated in the southern area, now infilled. Whilst remains of some of the colliery infrastructure may survive, the potential for the survival of earlier buried archaeological remains within the site is considered to be low to negligible. Any remains preserved below the spoil heaps may have been compressed by the weight of the spoil and contaminated, and could have been disturbed if topsoil was stripped prior to tipping. Further investigations: No further archaeological investigations are likely to be required if the site is brought forward for development. Significance: Negligible.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: The 2002 aerial photograph shows the northern part of the site as spoil heaps, to either side of Rossington Drain. The buildings at the south end of Pheasant Bank were still shown, with car parking to the rear. Pit-head structures were still shown in the central west part of the site, including the headstocks and the former engine house and chimney, with some spoil conveyors leading into the southeast part of the site. The southeast and southwest areas were also spoil heaps. By 2007, the pit head buildings mainly still survived, but these had been demolished by 2008. The spoil heaps to the northeast and west may have been removed by that date, with the footprint of some of the carbonisation plant buildings visible. The possible baths north of West End Lane had been demolished. Some plant was shown in the southeast part of the site in 2012, possibly associated with regrading or reclamation of the spoil heaps. The 2015 image is very obscure due to clouds and poor resolution, but shows some activity within the northwest part of the site, including a new road layout and roundabout, and possible construction works. There is no Lidar data for this site. Photograph references: Google Earth coverage 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012 & 2015. OS/89258 0037 11-Jun-1989.
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 04346/01 Rossington Colliery An early 20th century coal mine Y ESY1464 Geophysical survey Fieldwalking and geophysical survey were conducted along the Y and fieldwalking, route of a new road near Finningley and Rossington. Field FARRRS, Doncaster boundaries and enclosures of probable Iron Age or Romano- British date were identified by the geophysical survey. The fieldwalking exercise recovered only two flints.
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SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY4222 Loversall and Potteric Carr, Loversall, Agglomerated fields Y Y Doncaster HSY4224 Rossington Colliery Spoil Heap, Rossington, Spoil Heap Y Y Doncaster HSY4230 Rossington Main Colliery spoil 2, Rossington, Spoil Heap Y Y Doncaster HSY4444 Holmes Carr Great Wood, Rossington, Ancient Woodland Y Y Doncaster HSY4744 Rossington Main Colliery, New Rossington, Deep Shaft Coal Mine Y Y Doncaster HSY4219 Wadworth and Stancil Carr, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y HSY4227 Potteric Carr ex-plantation, Loversall, Agglomerated fields Y Doncaster HSY4713 Central Drive, New Rossington, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y HSY4741 Bankwood Industrial estate, New Rossington, Other Industry Y Doncaster HSY4768 Bank Wood Lane, New Rossington, Doncaster Allotments Y HSY4772 Bankwood Industrial estate, New Rossington, Utilities Y Doncaster HSY4776 Bankwood Industrial estate, New Rossington, Other Industry Y Doncaster
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Allocation Reference: 664 Area (Ha): 0.26 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 4841 0330 Site Name: Plane Tree Farm, High Street, Barnburgh Settlement: Barnburgh
Allocation Recommendations
Archaeological significance of site Negligible Historic landscape significance Uncertain Suitability of site for allocation No archaeological constraint
Summary Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - 1 Listed Building - 13 SMR record/event 1 event 15 records/10 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest No No Estimated sub-surface disturbance Extensive n/a
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Allocation Reference: 664 Area (Ha): 0.26 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 4841 0330 Site Name: Plane Tree Farm, High Street, Barnburgh Settlement: Barnburgh
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR records one event within the site, comprising four trial trenches undertaken in 2012, which recorded ridge and furrow earthworks and a trackway. Fifteen further records are present within the buffer zone. These comprise Roman to post-medieval finds, although predominantly medieval and post-medieval, and are mostly located to the south and east of the site. Ten events are recorded within the buffer zone. Immediately to the east of the site, investigation revealed an early V-shaped ditch, two pits, a gully and post hole beneath the historic farmyard. The other events are all located to the east or south of the site, and mostly related to medieval and post medieval ridge and furrow earthworks. A number of events relate to investigations at Barnburgh Hall, which recorded activity related with the late medieval construction of the hall and earlier Romano-British activity. There is one Scheduled Monument within the buffer zone, at the very eastern edge; the Dovecote at Barnburgh Hall, which is also grade II* listed. Twelve further listed buildings exist within the buffer zone. Immediately outside the eastern site boundary is a grade II listed structure. The grade I listed Church of St Peter is located to the south of the site. The remaining structures are all grade II listed, and are located to the south or east of the site. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project records extensive post-medieval ridge and furrow earthworks within the buffer zone, to the immediate northwest of the site and also to the south of the site. At the southern end of the buffer, medieval to post-medieval terraced ground is recorded. Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as vernacular cottages. The road pattern throughout this area is probably medieval in origin. Many 17th- to 19th-century farms and houses survive and it likely that at least some of the thin semi-regular plots in which they stand are of an older origin. The area retains significant legibility of historic village form. The majority of the buffer zone comprises modern housing with very little and highly fragmented legibility of the earlier enclosed landscape. To the northwest of the buffer zone is enclosed land, the internal boundaries of which probably date to the 1822 Parliamentary Enclosure Award. Within this character area is also partial legibility of its earlier open type, comprising curving boundaries surrounding parts of the earlier open fields. The site currently comprises a single plot of land. Google Street View imagery suggests that this site was under development in October 2015. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The site is shown as part of a single field on the 1855 OS map. Two small buildings are evident on the site by 1892, one in the north-eastern corner of the site, and one in the south-eastern corner. By 1930 a third building had been built on the site, slightly larger than the first two and aligned approximately northwest to southeast. By the 1980s, the building in the north-eastern corner was no longer present on the site, although the larger building in the centre of the site, and the smaller one in the south-eastern corner were still present on the 1988 map. Within the buffer, the area to the east of the site was well developed by 1855, being the historic core of Barnbrough. To the west of the site, the area within the buffer zone comprises mostly fields, and a Wesleyan Chapel is present immediately to the west of the site, on Barnbrough Lane. St Peter’s Church is immediately to the south of the site and the structures of Plane Tree Farm, one of which is listed, butts up to the eastern boundary of the site. By 1977, substantial housing had been developed to the southwest of the site. Survival: The site was shown as under development in 2015, with archaeological evaluation undertaken in 2012 prior to the redevelopment. This recorded ridge and furrow earthworks and a trackway. Archaeological mitigation has been completed at this site and there is no further potential for the survival of buried archaeology.
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Further investigations: No further archaeological investigations are likely to be required in association with any further development proposals for this site. Significance: Negligible.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: Aerial photographs from 2002 show the site as recently cleared. The building at the southern end was still present, although the building in the centre of the site had been demolished by this time, with the footprint still visible. By 2008, the remaining building on the site, at the southern end, had been cleared. Aerial photographs from 2015 are obscured by cloud cover, but Google Street View images show the site to have been developed with housing by October 2015, which appears to have been almost complete by this time. There is no available Lidar data for the site. Photograph references: Google Earth Images 2003, 2003, 2008, 2009. Google Street View 2015. RAF/541/170 3051 21-Sep-1948; MAL/71024 0063 17-Apr-1971; MAL/71132 0200 05-Sep-1971; MAL/73020 0208 11-May-1973.
Statutory Designations Reference Name Designation/ Site? Buffer? ID Grade 1004800 Dovecote at Barnburgh Hall Y 1151675 Church of St Peter I Y 1151676 Medieval stone coffin against south wall of chancel of Church of St II Y Peter 1151677 Green Farmhouse II Y 1151678 Smithy Cottage, The cottage II Y 1151679 Hickleton House Manor Farm II Y 1151680 Outbuilding approximately 15 metres south of Hickleton House II Y 1191482 Outbuilding immediately to north east of Hickleton House II Y 1191517 Barn and cowhouse with hayloft approximately 35 metres to II Y north west of Plane Tree Farmhouse 1293364 Garden wall and gatepiers to side of Barnburgh Hall II Y 1314756 Village pump to rear of number 1 II Y 1314757 Barnburgh Hall dovecote II* Y 1314758 Two barns opposite number 3 High Street II Y 1393748 The Coach and Horses Public House II Y
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SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 00376/01 St Peter's Church, Medieval church at Barnburgh Y Barnburgh 00377/01 Pre-Norman Cross Found in church yard, now in north aisle. A "post-conquest Y Shaft, Barnburgh cross shaft of Pre-Norman form". 00379/01 Barnburgh Hall The site of a 16th/17th-century hall with later additions. The Y (Site of) buildings were demolished in the 1970s. 00380/01 Barnburgh Hall Octagonal dovecote built of thinly coursed Jurassic limestone. Y Dovecote It has ashlar dressings, large quoins and a chamfered plinth band. The roof is hipped, built of stone slate and is surmounted by an octagonal stone lantern. 01082/01 Roman Coin Find, Billon Antoninianus of Gallierius (AD 258-9 Lugdunum mint) Y Barnburgh found in a builders trench at Barnburgh Lane. 01177/01 ?Medieval Column Column Base found in Barnburgh Hall Grounds "several years Y Base, Barnburgh ago", in paddock. Medieval? 01536/01 Medieval Building, Green Farm, Barnburgh. Earlier building at south end, 17th Y Green Farm, century house. Barnburgh 03549/01 Medieval Ridge and Very well preserved ridge and furrow now used as a paddock. Y Furrow, Barnburgh The ridge and furrow runs up to a pond, which does not appear to be later than the earthworks. 04231/01 Medieval Pinfold, Barnburgh pinfold was restored by community industry. Y Barnburgh Doncaster for Barnburgh Parish Council 1983. 04232/01 Unclasssified Unidentifiable earthworks visible in pasture field to the north Y Earthworks, and west of Pinfold. Barnburgh 04840 Romano-British Romano-British enclosure at Barnburgh Hall Y enclosure at Barnburgh Hall 04841 Earlier Medieval A possible earlier medieval (up to the 13th century) timber Y ?Timber Framed framed building represented by a number of postholes. Building, Barnburgh Hall 04842 Medieval Building A medieval (13th to 14th century) building complex Y Complex demolished in the late medieval/early post-medieval period. (demolished), Barnburgh Hall 04843 Late Late Medieval/Early Post-Medieval Limekiln, Barnburgh Hall Y Medieval/Early Post-Medieval Limekiln, Barnburgh Hall 04936 Site of Methodist Depicted on 1854 OS map as a Wesleyan Chapel, on later maps Y Chapel, Barnburgh depicted as Primitive Methodist Chapel. ESY7 Geophysical Survey A pattern of intersecting high resistivity anomalies were Y at Barnburgh Hall discovered SE of the stables, postulated as being wall footings of a demolished building (with possible internal divisions being visible). Further anomalies located to the south and west of the hall may provide evidence for further archaeological remains, which at the present remain un-investigated. ESY8 Evaluation at Trial trenching carried out to investigate the site of the hall Y Barnburgh Hall and its grounds. Evidence for a late medieval origin for the hall
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was identified, along with earlier medieval pottery. Two Romano-British ditches were also recorded. ESY9 Geophysical survey A resistivity survey was carried out over an area of 1300 Y adjacent to square metres to the south and west of the Dovecote at Barnburgh Hall Barnburgh Hall. Several possible features were identified. ESY367 Archaeological A photographic building survey recorded all the farmstead's Y Evaluation and standing buildings, particularly elements of the pre-1839 Building Recording farmstead. Evaluation revealed an undated V-shaped ditch, at Ivy House Farm two pits, a gully and post hole beneath the historic farmyard. ESY370 Archaeological In September 1994 an archaeological evaluation was Y Evaluation on Land undertaken on land off Fox Lane. The results of the evaluation off Fox Lane showed that there were no archaeological remains present within this area. ESY385 Earth Resistance In March 1999 a geophysical survey was conducted within the Y Survey at walled garden at Barnburgh Hall. Most of the anomalies Barnburgh Hall related to previous archaeological investigation in 1991 such as backfilled trenches and also garden paths. There are also anomalies that could indicate structural features. ESY386 Earthwork Survey An earthwork survey and building recording (of the stables and Y and Building dovecote) was undertaken in 1999. The results revealed Recording at information about the historical development of the site from Barnburgh Hall the medieval period to the early 20th century. ESY387 Archaeological In July 2005 an archaeological assessment and buildings Y Assessment and appraisal was undertaken at Green Farm to establish the Buildings Appraisal significance of the standing buildings. The structures making at Green Farm up the farm date to the 17th and 19th century. ESY503 Archaeological In February 2006 a watching brief was undertaken on land at Y Watching Brief at School House on Church Lane. No archaeological features or School House, deposits were observed. Church Lane ESY1365 Evaulation at Plane Four trial trenches on former agricultural land within the Y Y Tree Farm, historic core of Barnburgh. Ridge and furrow earthworks, Barnburgh along with a trackway were recorded. No other archaeology was encountered.
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY5768 Barnburgh historic core, Doncaster Vernacular Cottages Y Y HSY4229 Former Parliamentary Enclosure of Open Field, Surveyed Enclosure Y Barnburgh, Doncaster (Parliamentary/ Private) HSY5752 Hollowgate estates, Barnburgh, Doncaster Semi-Detached Housing Y HSY5757 Well preserved ridge and furrow area to the Surveyed Enclosure Y south of Barnburgh, Doncaster (Parliamentary/ Private) HSY5760 St Peters Close and Stable Lane, Barnburgh, Private Housing Estate Y Doncaster HSY5761 Barnburgh Hall Gardens, Barnburgh, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y HSY5762 Hickleton Road, Barnburgh, Doncaster Semi-Detached Housing Y HSY5763 St Peter's Church, Barnburgh, Doncaster Religious (Worship) Y HSY5764 Cemetery, Barnburgh, Doncaster Cemetery Y HSY5765 Church Lane Barnburgh, Doncaster Villas/ Detached Housing Y
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HSY5766 Housing on former Barnburgh village green, Semi-Detached Housing Y Barnburgh, Doncaster HSY5767 Fox Lane and Back Lane, Barnburgh, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y
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Allocation Reference: 666 Area (Ha): 0.06 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 5665 0461 Site Name: 54 Earlston Drive, Bentley Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area
Allocation Recommendations
Archaeological significance of site Unknown Historic landscape significance Negligible Suitability of site for allocation Uncertain archaeological constraint
Summary Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event - 1 record Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest No Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Extensive n/a
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Allocation Reference: 666 Area (Ha): 0.06 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 5665 0461 Site Name: 54 Earlston Drive, Bentley Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area
Site assessment Known assets/character: There are no SMR records within the site. Within the buffer zone one findspot of a Roman coin is recorded, located to the southeast of the site. There are no Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings within the site or the buffer zone. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project records the cropmark of an undated ditch within the buffer zone, to the east of the site. Twentieth century air raid shelters have been recorded within the buffer zone, to the west of the site. The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as terraced housing, built as ribbon development along the road from Doncaster to Bentley from the late nineteenth into the early years of the twentieth century. There is no legibility of the earlier Parliamentary Enclosure of former open fields. The majority of the buffer zone is also characterised with a mixture of housing types, with a small area of enclosed land to the east. The site is currently occupied by buildings arranged in a rectangular U-shape, with a courtyard space in the centre. Earlston Drive is at the immediate north of the site, with a small alleyway to the immediate west. To the east is a residential property. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: On the 1851 map, the site is located within a field. To the east of the site, Bentley Road is extant, although no buildings are present on it. By 1892 development had occurred along Bentley Road, and the site was part of Jubilee Villa, with a building at the western end of the site. The ‘villa’ is located to the east of the site and fronts onto Bentley Road, and the building located within the site appears to be an outbuilding. By 1906 two further buildings had been constructed within the site, and the U-shape arrangement of buildings visible on the site today is recognisable, with an open space in the centre. An extension is apparent on the building at the south end of the site by 1960, and the building at the western end of the site has also been extended, depicted as glass. No change is apparent on the site since. Within the buffer zone, in 1851 the area is little developed and comprised mainly fields. Bentley Road exists to the east of the site, although no buildings were located on it. A railways line was present at the very eastern end of the buffer zone. The fields to the north-west of the site are labelled West Field and Lady Putts Bridge is located to the south-west. A bone crushing mill was marked at the southern end of the buffer zone within a small area of development on the northern fringes on Doncaster town centre. By 1892 development had begun on Bentley Road to both the north and south of the site with what appears to be terraced housing, generally labelled as Bentley Rise. Allotment gardens had been established to the north-west of the site. By 1904 a rope walk was marked to the south of the site, and the bone crushing mill was named Willow Bridge Mill. By 1906 a tramway had been constructed long Bentley Road, although this was not shown by 1930. Allotment gardens had been created to the immediate west of the site by 1930, and a school and further houses had been built to the north- west. A mineral railway had been constructed at the south-western end of the site by 1930 and further houses had also been constructed within the south-eastern end of the buffer zone. By 1948 Earlston Road had been constructed, but no houses had yet been built along it; by 1955 the houses were developed. By this time houses are also present to the north-west, over the previous allotment gardens. By 1960 a rugby ground had been built to the south-west of the site. Survival: Development on the site had occurred by 1892, with the building which currently stands at the western end of the site. By 1906 the other buildings, at the north and south ends of the site, had been constructed. These appear likely to be outbuildings, and may not have caused substantial sub-surface disturbance. The potential for survival of unrecorded buried archaeology within the site is considered to be moderate to low. The buildings, of later
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19th- and early 20th-century date, may be of some historic interest. Further investigations: The function of the buildings within the site is unclear; it is possible that they may be outbuildings originally associated with ‘Jubilee Villa’. Google Street View images shows the buildings to be constructed out of red brick, with the pre 1892 building of two storeys, with a wide opening onto Earlston Drive, probably for a cart. The arrangement of the buildings on the site, in a U-shape with an open centre, suggests it may be a yard, with associated functional buildings around the edge, such as a garages or workshops. Further investigation may be required into these surviving buildings, if the site is allocated for development. Significance: Unknown. The standing buildings may be considered to be of Local heritage significance.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: Twenty-first century photographs show the site to be unchanged from the 1992 OS map, with a rectangular U- shape arrangement of buildings, with an open space in the centre. No previously unknown heritage assets have been identified within Lidar imagery covering the site. Photograph references: Google Earth images 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2015. Google Street View images 2014. RAF/541/21 4146 15-May- 1948; ULM (BUL93) 16-JUL-1975. Lidar data tile SE5604 DTM 1m.
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 03306/01 Roman Coin, 1 brass Vatentinian II (AD 375-392) found 13 Conyers Road. Y Conyers Road, Doncaster
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY4950 Bentley Road, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y Y HSY4425 Bentley Ings, Doncaster Drained Wetland Y HSY4953 Lauder Road, Bentley Rise, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y HSY5087 Centurion Park, Doncaster Retail Park Y HSY5147 Grid Iron Terraces, Bentley Rise, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y HSY5166 Bentley Kirkby Avenue School, Doncaster School Y HSY5167 Haslemere Court, Bentley, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y HSY5168 Old School Building, Kirkby Lane, Doncaster School Y HSY5169 Grange Close/ Bishop Garth Close, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y HSY5171 Industrial area, Bentley Rise, Doncaster Other Industry Y
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Allocation Reference: 670 Area (Ha): 0.12 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SK 5114 9880 Site Name: Land South of Wellgate, Conisbrough Settlement: Conisbrough
Allocation Recommendations
Archaeological significance of site Negligible Historic landscape significance Negligible Suitability of site for allocation No archaeological constraint
Summary Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - 1 Listed Building - 5 SMR record/event 1 event 23 records/7 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence No No Cartographic features of interest Yes Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Extensive n/a
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Allocation Reference: 670 Area (Ha): 0.12 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SK 5114 9880 Site Name: Land South of Wellgate, Conisbrough Settlement: Conisbrough
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR records one event within the site, which extends into the buffer zone. The event relates to archaeological trial trenching and excavation at Wellgate, which revealed archaeological remains dating from the Roman period onwards. The earliest activity comprised a substantial cut feature set with a number of wooden structures including a fence, stake alignment and track. The only dating evidence was from Roman pottery dating to the 2nd and 4th centuries AD. There was also medieval activity dating to the 11th and 12th centuries. Six monuments and 21 findspots are recorded within the buffer zone; however, 14 of the findspots are poorly located prehistoric flint and bone artefacts and Iron Age to Roman pottery and a brooch recorded as being found at Cadeby Cliff, which is well outside the buffer and north of the River Don. To the northeast of the site, a small assemblage of ten flints of uncertain prehistoric date were recovered during excavations at Wellgate, which also found remains of probable 6th-century activity. A medieval well (grade II listed) is also recorded in this area. A number of records relate to the medieval castle at Conisbrough (also a SM) and the church of St Peter (grade I listed), to the northeast of the site. The church contains early medieval sculptures, chest tombs and a burial. To the south of the site is a timber-framed building possibly of medieval date but more likely to be post-medieval. In addition to the Wellgate investigations, six further events are recorded in the eastern part of the buffer, five associated with investigations of various areas and features at Conisbrough Castle and one at Low Road which did not identify any features of archaeological interest. There are no listed buildings or Scheduled Monuments within the site. One Scheduled Monument extends just into the northeast edge of the buffer zone, the medieval Conisbrough Castle. There are five listed buildings within the buffer zone, all within the eastern half. In addition to the grade I listed medieval church of St Peter and the grade II listed medieval well, mentioned above, the remaining buildings are all grade II listed and comprise the Old Hall Restaurant (early to mid-18th century), the Priory (early to mid-19th century), and the Old Priory (c.1800). The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project does not record any features within the site or buffer zone. Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and much of the area of the buffer as a planned estate (social housing), with fragmentary legibility of the medieval landscape of the town. The majority of the buffer contains areas characterised by a variety of housing types and associated playing fields and allotments, with very limited and fragmentary evidence of earlier landscape forms. The site was shown as a vacant plot of rough grass in 2011, but appears to have been developed with a row of houses by 2015. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: A building was shown within the site on the 1854 OS map, fronting onto a lane leading back from Church Street. This was shown as an L-shaped building in 1892 and 1902. The building was shown in 1948, but by 1958, a smaller rectangular building was shown at the western end of the site in 1958, when the rest of the site appeared to be gardens or yard areas. By 1971, a large building comprising seven flats had been constructed within the site as part of the Wellgate estate, and this remained unchanged by 1994. Within the buffer zone, the 1854 OS map showed the historic core of settlement at Conisbrough to the southeast of the site, and gardens and crofts to the west and south, with fields to the west of Lady's Lane, later Elm Green Lane. Further buildings were shown to the north of the site. Further housing had been built to the southwest by 1930. By 1956, a housing estate was under development to the northwest of Elm Green Lane, and Montague Cottage was shown to the immediate east of the site. The Wellgate estate of blocks of low-rise flats, had been
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built around the site by 1971.
Survival: The site was developed with flats by 1971, which is likely to have truncated sub-surface deposits. It was later covered by the Wellgate archaeological mitigation area, and has been developed since 2011. The potential for the survival of archaeological remains is considered to be negligible. Further investigations: No archaeological investigations are likely to be required if further development is planned at the site. Significance: Following archaeological mitigation, the significance of any archaeological remains surviving at the site is likely to be negligible.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: The 2002 aerial imagery shows the block of low-rise flats within the site, as depicted on maps from 1971 onwards. By 2007, the flats had been demolished and the site was shown as vacant, with new development depicted to the north of the site. In 2008 and 2009, the site was shown as vacant with rough grass coverage. By 2015, a row of houses was shown within the site. There is no Lidar coverage for this site. Photograph/Lidar references: Google Earth 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009 & 2012. Street View 2011.
Statutory Designations Reference Name Designation/ Site? Buffer? ID Grade 1010828 Conisbrough Castle SM Y 1151531 The Old Priory Nursing Home and attached outbuilding II Y 1192787 Church of St Peter I Y 1192845 The Priory (offices of Local Authority department) II Y 1314840 The Old Hall Restaurant II Y 1314842 Well cover approximately 50 metres northwest of junction with II Y Church Street
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 00200/01 Medieval Town Small stone building covers well, date uncertain but probably Y Well, Conisbrough of medieval origin. Still a functioning spring. 00201/01 Church of St Peter, A medieval church at Conisbrough with Anglo-Saxon origins. Y Conisbrough 00202/01 Anglo-Saxon Period Fragment of a pre-Conquest cross shaft dated to the late 10th Y Cross Fragment, St century, in the south chapel, with a fragment of what Peter’s, appeared to be a second cross shaft built into the external face Conisbrough of the east wall of the south aisle. 00203/01 Norman 12th Elaborate Romanesque tomb-chest, now at the east end of the Y Century Coped south aisle, dated 1140-1160. The coped lid bears a series of
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Tomb Chest, medallions enclosing mounted knights in combat, winged Conisbrough beasts and the signs of the zodiac. 00780/01 Late Medieval and Finds during 1964 restoration work included late medieval and Y Post-Medieval post medieval pottery, coins, spearhead, fragments of leaded Finds, Conisbrough lights, metal and and bone. 01085/01 Roman AE (bronze/copper) dupondius of Hadrian found in the Y Bronze/Copper grounds of Consiborough Castle in the early 1940s. Coin Find, Conisbrough Castle 01175/01 Timber Framed Timber-framed House (G.S. Coe & Son, Shoe Repairers), Y House, Church Church Street, Conisbrough. Remains of one truss at north end Street Conisbrough of the building. 01968/05 Mesolithic and Bone material and flint tools of Mesolithic and unknown date. Y Undated Finds, Including a flint microlith and awl, antler, fragments of a knife Cadeby Cliff handle (made with a metal saw) found on the surface of a ploughed field within a scooped enclosure feature. The site from air photography is a circle-ditch broken in two places and may be a 'Henge' feature. 01969/01 Prehistoric Flint One scraper was found on the surface of a ploughed field Y Tool Finds, 1977/78. Conisbrough 01970/01 Romano-British 1 broken bronze penannular brooch found on the surface of Y Bronze Pennanular ploughed field 1977/78. Brooch, Mexborough 01971/01 Prehistoric Flint 1 knife/saw, 2 pieces of sawn antler and 1 retouched flake Y Tool and Bone found on surface of ploughed field. Finds, Cadeby Cliff, Conisbrough 01974/01 Flint Tool and Bone 1 broken lance point, 1 microlith, 1 piece of knife handle, 1 Y Finds, Cadeby Cliff, scraper and 1 reworked flake were found on surface of Conisbrough ploughed field. 01975/01 Leaf Shaped 1 leaf shaped arrowhead found on surface of ploughed field Y Arrowhead Find, 1977/78. Cadeby Cliff, Mexborough 01976/01 Flint Tool Finds, 1 hollow based point/arrowhead, 1 scraper, 2 retouched flakes Y Cadeby Cliff, and 2 scrapers were found on surface of ploughed field. Conisbrough 01977/01 Flint Tools and 1 awl, 1 slug tool, 1 microlith, 1 obliq/blunted point, 2 cores, 1 Y Bone Finds, Cadeby piece of kife handle, 2 reworked flakes, 2 scrapers, 8 Cliff, Conisbrough retouched flakes and 1 knife, found on surface of ploughed field. 01978/01 Iron Age or Scatter of British pottery found on surface of ploughed field Y Romano-British 1977/78; samian ware (now at Doncaster Museum), 1 sherd of Pottery Scatter, Nene Vallery Ware Sector 8 and 1 sherd of possible Iron Age Cadeby Cliff, pottery sector 7 (both of which are with Mr. A. Peace of Conisbrough Mexborough). 01979/01 Flint Tool Finds, 3 microliths, 1 knife/saw, 8 retouched flakes, 1 burnt scraper Y Cadeby Cliff, and 2 scrapers found on the surface of a ploughed field. Conisbrough 01982/01 Flint Tools, Bone 2 scrapers, 1 blade segment, 1 piece of bone knife handle, 1 Y and a Jet Knife piece of jet knife handle, 4 retouched flakes, 2 retouched Handle Find, flakes, 1 Microlith, and 1 scraper found on the surface of a Cadeby Cliff, ploughed field. Conisbrough
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01983/01 Flint Tool and Bone 1 scraper, 1 antler tip, 3 scrapers and 3 retouched flakes found Y Finds, Cadeby Cliff, on surface of ploughed field. Conisbrough 01985/01 Flint Axe with 1 blade fragment from flint axe with polished blade was found Y Polished Blade on the surface of a ploughed field Find, Cadeby Cliff, Conisbrough 01987/01 Flint Tool Finds, 1 microlith found on surface of ploughed field Y Cadeby Cliff, Conisbrough 02008/01 Relief at Sculpture depicting a figure (? a woman) wearing a long Y Conisbrough flowing robe, sitting upon a bench or sedile, within a niche. Church Built into the east wall of the porch of Conisborough Castle (internally). 02068/01 Medieval Grave Upper part of a small 12th century slan into wall on west side Y Cover, Castle Walk, of Castle Walk, south east of 'The Priory'. Conisbrough 02269/01 Pre-Norman burial, Discussing Conisbrough Church, Miller (1804) says that 'When Y Conisborough the Norman tomb was moved, digging down revealed a north- Church south burial and directly under this what was clearly an east- west cist burial with charcoal.' It is possible that the east-west burial is a late Anglo-Saxon charcoal burial. However, this may be a later medieval charcoal burial. The north-south burial could be any date prior to the 8th century. 04844 Site of Roman and A complex of probably later 6th century features containing Y Post-Roman (residual?) Roman pottery. Features included a possible pond Activity, Wellgate, containing preserved wooden structures including a fence, a Conisbrough line of stakes, a wooden box structure and a wattle track. An undated hearth may have been associated with this activity. 05236 Possible Later Ten flints were recovered from the site, all from stratified Y Mesolithic and contexts, the majority coming from organic deposits filling the undated Flint Finds, Phase 1 pond complex. Wellgate, ConIsbrough ESY3 Evaluation on Land Geophysical survey carried out in advance of the construction Y off Low Road, of a car park highlighted several interesting anomalies, but Conisbrough these turned out to be of a modern origin. ESY398 Archaeological Trial Trial trenching and excavation in 2002 revealed archaeological Y Y Trenching and remains dating from the Roman period onwards. The earliest Excavation at activity comprised a substantial cut feature set with a number Wellgate of wooden structures including a fence, stake alignment and track. The only dating evidence was from Roman pottery dating to the 2nd and 4th centuries AD. There was also medieval activity dating to the 11th and 12th centuries. ESY1359 Test pitting at the Three test pits adjacent to Conisbrough Castle encountered Y Lodge, Conisbrough late medieval layers overlain by 19th-century deposits in all Castle three pits. In one pit a later medieval wall was recorded. ESY1360 Strip and record Mitigation works encountered remains associated with the Y exercise at The outer bailey of the 12th-/13th-century castle and remains Lodge, Conisbrough associated with the earlier timber castle. ESY1395 Evaluation at Trial trenching and geophysical survey on an area of collapsed Y Conisbrough Castle lawn revealed a brick-built Victorian manhole, constructed within an unmortared stone wall. Geophysical survey suggested that the features did not extend beyond the trench. ESY1396 Earthwork Survey Measured earthwork survey identified only slight and Y at Conisbrough equivocal evidence for pre-conquest features. Medieval and later features were recorded, characterised and dated where
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Castle possible. ESY1397 Geophysical survey, Geophysical survey to the west and south of Conisbrough Y Conisbrough Castle Castle identified a possible section of wall, a fishpond and a number of buildings of unknown date and function.
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY5343 Wellgate, Conisbrough, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y Y HSY5451 Church Street, Conisbrough, Doncaster Vernacular Cottages Y Y HSY5326 North Cliff Hill (Conisbrough Crags), Commons and greens Y Conisbrough, Doncaster HSY5347 Conisbrough Castle, Conisbrough, Doncaster Fortified Site Y HSY5349 St Peter's Church Conisbrough, Doncaster Religious (Worship) Y HSY5353 Northcliffe Road allotments, Conisbrough, Allotments Y Doncaster HSY5354 Elm Green Lane, Conisbrough, Doncaster Villas/ Detached Housing Y HSY5355 Castle Hill villas, Conisbrough, Doncaster Villas/ Detached Housing Y HSY5356 Ivanhoe Road / Rowena Road / Athelstane Terraced Housing Y Road, Conisbrough, Doncaster HSY5357 Miners Welfare Recreation Ground, Playing Fields/ Recreation ground Y Conisbrough, Doncaster HSY5358 Mid-20th century social housing estates, Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y Conisbrough, Doncaster HSY5372 Park Road, Conisbrough, Doncaster Semi-Detached Housing Y HSY5373 March Vale Rise, Conisbrough Private Housing Estate Y HSY5425 The Oval, Conisbrough, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y HSY5427 Norwood Road, Conisbrough, Doncaster Semi-Detached Housing Y HSY5429 North Cliff Road, Conisbrough, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y HSY5437 Castle Crescent, Ferry Lane, Conisbrough, Private Housing Estate Y Doncaster HSY5444 Station Road, Conisbrough, Doncaster Villas/ Detached Housing Y HSY5445 Terraces around 'The Laurels' Conisbrough, Terraced Housing Y Doncaster HSY5446 Elm Grove Lane, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y HSY5447 Warren Road / Old Road, Conisbrough, Terraced Housing Y Doncaster HSY5448 March Street, West Street and Waverley Terraced Housing Y Avenue, Conisbrough, Doncaster HSY5449 Conisbrough Commercial Core, Conisbrough, Commercial Core-Urban Y Doncaster HSY5450 High Street / Waverly Avenue, Conisbrough, Villas/ Detached Housing Y DoncasterY HSY5457 Holywell Lane, Chapel Lane, Conisbrough, Terraced Housing Y Doncaster
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Allocation Reference: 672 Area (Ha): 0.23 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 5609 0490 Site Name: Queens Court, Rowan Garth, Bentley Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area
Allocation Recommendations
Archaeological significance of site Negligible Historic landscape significance Negligible Suitability of site for allocation No archaeological constraint
Summary Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event - - Cropmark/Lidar evidence Yes Yes Cartographic features of interest Yes Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Partial n/a
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Allocation Reference: 672 Area (Ha): 0.23 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 5609 0490 Site Name: Queens Court, Rowan Garth, Bentley Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR records no monuments, findspots or events within the site or buffer zone. There are no Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings within the site or buffer zone. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project recorded two military buildings within the site in 1948, both of which extended south into the buffer zone. Further military buildings were recorded in the area to the south, in an area since developed with housing. Historic Environment Characterisation data records the present character of the site as an industrial estate first depicted in 1972, with no legibility of the former character of surveyed enclosure or probable open field. Further character areas within the buffer comprise early 20th-century terraced houses and allotments, mid-20th-century semi-detached housing, playing fields and industrial estate, and a modern planned social housing estate and an area of regenerated scrubland between three disused stretches of railway. The site is currently occupied by two single-storey derelict works or warehouse buildings. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The 1854 to 1930 OS maps depicted the site as part of a field within an area known as West Field. In 1956, a group of rectangular buildings, possibly barracks or stores, had been built within and to the southeast of the site, off Queen's Drive. These were identified as military buildings from aerial photographs (Magnesian Limestone Mapping Project). The military buildings had been demolished by 1960, when the site was shown as vacant, with an access road leading into it from Queen's Court. By 1981, the site contained two factory buildings. The 1854 to 1906 OS maps depicted the buffer zone as fields within the West Field and Street Croft areas, with Watch House Lane to the north of the site on a northeast-southwest alignment. By 1930, a three-way mineral railway junction had been established in the southwest part of the buffer, and some of the fields had become allotment gardens. Housing was extending into the northeast part of the buffer and along Watch House Lane at the western edge. By 1948, four buildings were shown within the field containing the site, but northwest of the site itself, possibly military buildings. Queen's Drive had been laid out by that date. Further buildings had been built within the field by 1956, by which date housing around the northwest, south and southwest edges of the buffer had been expanded, along with large works buildings at the western edge. By 1960, the military buildings had mainly been demolished, and a council yard was shown to the northwest of the site. Works buildings to the southeast of the site may have been converted from the military structures. Semi-detached and detached housing was shown to the immediate east of the site. The 1980 OS map showed works buildings to the southwest of the site, the depot to the north, and a new housing estate to the south and southeast. Survival: The site has been occupied by military structures and later works buildings. The extent of disturbance caused by the construction of these buildings is unclear, as they may not have substantial foundations, however, there is likely to have been some associated truncation of sub-surface deposits. The potential for the survival of buried archaeological remains within the site is considered to be low. Further investigations: Further archaeological investigations are unlikely to be required if the site is brought forward for development. Significance: Negligible.
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Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: The 2002-2015 aerial imagery shows two rectangular works buildings within the site, both with pitched roofs, and a parking area to the north. Street View imagery from 2012 shows the buildings as low single-storey structures, at least one being of brick construction, and one in a poor condition. Lidar data does not show any features of archaeological interest within the site. Photograph/Lidar references: Google Earth: 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009 & 2015. Street View 2012. Lidar data tile SE5604 DTM 1m. Photos transcribed by the Magnesian Limestone Project: Military buildings: RAF/541/21 4146 15-May-1948.
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY5172 Watch House Lane, Bentley, Doncaster Other Industry Y Y HSY4947 Allotment gardens, Bentley Rise, Doncaster Allotments Y HSY4948 Bentley Rise (Holly Avenue to Washington Terraced Housing Y Grove) HSY4953 Lauder Road, Bentley Rise, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y HSY4954 Playing Fields near Queens Drive, Bentley, Playing Fields/ Recreation ground Y Doncaster HSY5081 Halifax Crescent, Raymond Rd, St Martin’s Ave, Semi-Detached Housing Y Cusworth Lane suburbs, Doncaster HSY5083 Doncaster Industry Park, Doncaster Other Industry Y HSY5084 Former Rail Interchange, Bentley, Doncaster Regenerated Scrubland Y
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Allocation Reference: 673 Area (Ha): 0.317 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 5418 1379 Site Name: Poplar Farm, Sutton Road, Campsall Settlement: Campsall
Allocation Recommendations
Archaeological significance of site Local Historic landscape significance Uncertain Suitability of site for allocation Uncertain archaeological constraint
Summary Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - 5 SMR record/event - 1 record/1 event Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest Yes No Estimated sub-surface disturbance Extensive n/a
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Allocation Reference: 673 Area (Ha): 0.317 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 5418 1379 Site Name: Poplar Farm, Sutton Road, Campsall Settlement: Campsall
Site assessment Known assets/character: There are no SMR records within the site. One monument is recorded within the buffer zone, the post-medieval Campsall Chantry Chapel, located to the northwest of the site. One event is recorded within the southern area of the buffer zone and extending out to the east, relating to a watching brief. No archaeological features or finds were recorded within the buffer zone; the only recorded feature was a stone-lined drain crossing an 18th century track, found to the east of the buffer. There are no Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings recorded within the site. Five grade II listed buildings are recorded within the buffer zone, all located to the north of the site. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project does not record any features within the site. Within the buffer zone, post-medieval ridge and furrow are recorded to the immediate south of the site. Medieval earthworks are also recorded within the buffer zone, to the northwest of the site. Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as vernacular cottages within Campsall historic core. The historic core of the village appears to be mostly of 18th to 19th century fabric, although the vicarage began its life as a 15th century manor house. The large Norman church, a market charter of 1293 (along with surviving cross fragments) and the planned layout indicate a medieval settlement of some status. There is uncertain legibility of earlier historic character landscapes. Further character types within the buffer zone include agglomerated fields, private parkland and various housing types. The majority of the site is occupied by farm buildings, known as Poplar Farm. The site is located at the southern end of Campsall, off Sutton Road. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: Buildings are depicted on the site on the 1854 map at the northern and western sides of the site, with the east of the site being a small paddock or enclosure. By 1893, the whole of the site was part of the farm complex, with the northern barn extended to the east and a circular feature to the south of it, possibly a horse gin. Further outbuildings were shown along the eastern side of the site by 1907, and by 1932 a large open-sided building had been built in the southeast corner of the site. By 1960 the collection of buildings is labelled Poplar Farm. By 1977, the southeast barn had been removed and a new square building constructed on its site. There was no evident change on the 1990 map. Within the buffer zone, the area surrounding the site was well-developed to the north with the settlement of Campsall. To the immediate south of the site was a field. To the immediate east was a small field with trees, and further to the east were two plantations, named Little Moor and Beevers, and at the extreme edge of the buffer zone was Campsall Park, with a large lake. To the immediate west of the site was a small area of trees, with fields and allotments further to the west. By 1893 a school had been built within the field to the south of the site, and a pinfold was marked to the immediate east of the site. The plantations to the east had merged into one, named Beevers Plantation, and had expanded to the north. By 1948 development had started to the west of the site, off Sutton Road, which by 1966 had spread further west along Bone Lane. By 1975 Beevers Plantation had been cleared. Survival: Several buildings depicted at the western end the site by 1854 are still extant today. These buildings may be of historic interest. The succession of buildings on the site may have caused some below-ground truncation, and as such, the potential for the survival of any unrecorded buried archaeological remains of an earlier date is considered to be low to moderate. Further investigations: Further archaeological investigations are likely to be required if the site is brought forward for development. An
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assessment of the standing buildings within the site would assist in ascertaining their historic significance and the site’s capacity for housing development. Significance: The historic buildings within the site may be considered as being of Local archaeological significance.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: Aerial photographs from 2002 show little change on the site from the 1994 map, with buildings covering the majority of the site. Street View shows that some of the barns along the northern edge of the site are stone-built and possibly of early 19th-century or earlier date. The barns along the eastern side of the site generally appear to be more recent. The farmhouse is rendered, with modern inserted windows and its historic significance is unclear. There is no available Lidar data for the site. Photograph references: Google Earth images 2002, 2008, 2009, 2015. Google Street View 2011. MAL/67058 0137 13-Jun-1967, MAL/71050 0147 03-May-1971.
Statutory Designations Reference Name Designation/ Site? Buffer? ID Grade 1151463 Manor House and attached outbuilding II Y 1192149 Cross base approximately 8 metres to east of Hill House II Y 1192161 Rose Cottage II Y 1286737 The Old Bells and The Chimneys with self contained flat II Y 1314884 Gateway and flanking walls set behind cross base approximately 8 II Y metres to east of Hill House
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 04158/01 Campsall Chantry Documentary evidence indicates that there was a mid-16th Y Chapel century chantry chapel in Campsall also though the exact whereabouts is not known. ESY330 Archaeological In September and December 2004 a watching brief was Y Watching Brief at conducted along the route of proposed electricity cables. Barnsdale Bar, Within Campsall Country Park a stone-lined drain crossing the Campsall track was encountered. The track is likely to be part of a complex around the 18th century parkland associated with Campsall Hall. The presence of brick fragments supports the 18th century date.
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SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY335 Campsall historic core Vernacular Cottages Y Y HSY325 Prairie fields across the west of Norton / Agglomerated fields Y Campsall township HSY333 Campsall Park Private Parkland Y HSY334 Campsall Park (east) Private Parkland Y HSY336 Former Cottage Gardens, Campsall Private Housing Estate Y HSY337 Post-1980s Private Estates around Campsall Private Housing Estate Y HSY351 Former open fields between Sutton village and Agglomerated fields Y Campsall
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Allocation Reference: 674 Area (Ha): 0.09 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SK 6102 9856 Site Name: Former Pioneer Pickle Co., West End Lane Settlement: Rossington
Allocation Recommendations
Archaeological significance of site Unknown Historic landscape significance Negligible Suitability of site for allocation Uncertain archaeological constraint
Summary Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event - - Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest No No Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a
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Allocation Reference: 674 Area (Ha): 0.09 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SK 6102 9856 Site Name: Former Pioneer Pickle Co., West End Lane Settlement: Rossington
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR does not record any monuments or events within the site or buffer zone. No Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings are recorded within the site or buffer zone. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project did not record any features within the site. A rectilinear enclosure and associated field boundaries of probable Iron Age to Roman date are recorded as cropmarks within the northern part of the buffer. Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and much of the northern buffer as the modern Bankwood Industrial Estate. The site is part of an area that was used as allotments prior to the creation of the industrial estate, with the northern part of the estate, within the buffer, previously forming West End Wood, with the edge of the depot fossilising the boundary of the ancient woodland. Further character zones within the buffer comprise allotments to the northwest and a planned social housing estate to the south. The site is currently a square enclosure along a lane leading off West End Lane, containing a narrow rectangular brick-built shed structure with a corrugated metal roof. The area to the east of the building is rough grass, and there is a hedged boundary surrounding the site. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: # The 1854 OS map shows the site as part of a field bounded to the south by West End Lane. By 1930, the site was shown as vacant land to the west of new housing. The 1956 map depicted the current building within the site, and the 1962 map showed the site in its present layout. Within the buffer, the 1854 map shows West End Wood to the north and Bank Wood Lane to the west. The remaining area is fields, mainly strip fields in an area known as The Park, possibly a former medieval deer park associated with the manor of Draw Dikes. By 1930, the southern and eastern parts of the buffer contained housing estates forming part of the colliery village of New Rossington, with allotment gardens shown to the west and northwest. A TA Centre, clinic, British Legion Institute and Salvation Army Hall were shown to the west of the site in 1962, with another building on the West End Lane frontage to the immediate south and allotment gardens to the north. The industrial estate at the north edge of the buffer was first shown in 1989, within the former West End Wood. Survival: The site currently contains a narrow shed building, which is unlikely to have caused significant sub-surface disturbance. The potential for the survival of unrecorded buried archaeology within the site is considered to be moderate. Iron Age to Roman field boundaries have been recorded within the buffer to the north of the site, and such remains could continue into the site. Further investigations: Further archaeological investigations may be required if the site is brought forward for development. Significance: Unknown.
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Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: The 2002-2012 aerial photographs show the site containing a narrow rectangular structure within a square enclosure along a lane leading off West End Lane. The area to the east of the building is rough grass, and there is a hedged boundary surrounding the site. Street View imagery shows the building as a low, brick-built shed with small windows or ventilation openings at the top of the walls, just below the corrugated metal roof. The building to the south, on the street frontage, is shown as a funeral services office. There is no Lidar coverage for this site. Photograph references: Google Earth coverage 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009 & 2012. Street View 2011. OS/89258 0038 11-Jun-1989.
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY4776 Bankwood Industrial estate, New Rossington, Other Industry Y Y Doncaster HSY4713 Central Drive, New Rossington, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y HSY4739 York Street, New Rossington, Doncaster Allotments Y HSY4741 Bankwood Industrial estate, New Rossington, Other Industry Y Doncaster
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Allocation Reference: 676 Area (Ha): 0.54 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SK 5949 9343 Site Name: Plots 1-5 Scarborough Close, Tickhill Settlement: Tickhill
Allocation Recommendations
Archaeological significance of site Unknown Historic landscape significance Uncertain Suitability of site for allocation Uncertain archaeological constraint
Summary Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - 32 SMR record/event - 17 records/2 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence Yes Yes Cartographic features of interest No No Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a
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Allocation Reference: 676 Area (Ha): 0.54 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SK 5949 9343 Site Name: Plots 1-5 Scarborough Close, Tickhill Settlement: Tickhill
Site assessment Known assets/character: There are no SMR events or monuments recorded within the site, Four findspots, 13 monuments and two events are recorded within the buffer. The findspots comprise metalwork finds of Roman and medieval date recovered from Croft Drive, medieval pottery found in an excavation in the Market Place, a ‘long cross’ silver penny dated 1272-1307 and a sixpence of Elizabeth I. Medieval monuments comprise ditches containing medieval pottery, possibly former burgage plot boundaries, and the medieval hospital of St Leonards located to the north of Market Place. Post medieval monuments include the present market cross in the town centre which was erected in 1777 on site of an older cross, the village pump, a tallow candle factory, the 18th-century Red Lion Hotel, and a number of post medieval buildings on Sunderland Street. Two events are recorded in the buffer; an evaluation on land behind Red Lion Hotel identified a later medieval building and some earlier features; and a watching brief on Sunderland Street revealed the possible burgage plot boundaries, along with undated pits and wells. There are 32 listed buildings recorded within the buffer, all grade II listed apart from the grade II* St Leonard’s Hospital mentioned above. They are all located in the western part of the buffer, mainly along Sunderland Street, including the Post Office and The Vicarage, Market Place, Castlegate, and Manor House on Northgate. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project plotted an area of medieval ridge and furrow which runs across the northern parcel of the site and into the buffer, recorded as earthworks on a photograph from 1948. A 20th-century spoil heap was plotted in the far south of the buffer, south of Sunderland Street. Historic Landscape Characterisation records the site and part of the north of the buffer as playing fields and recreation grounds, including a bowling green, tennis court and allotment plots. There is no legibility of the earlier strip enclosure landscape. The site lies within the centre of Tickhill and is surrounded by modern housing estates with the historic burgage core of Tickhill in the south of the buffer. Directly east of the site is a cricket ground. The site is currently two parcels within an area of rough grass, bounded by hedges and located between two sports fields. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The 1854 OS map shows the site as within a group of small piecemeal enclosures and strip fields with a footpath running diagonally across the middle of the site from the southwest corner towards the northeast. An additional footpath ran along the southern edge of the site. The cricket ground to the east of the site was first depicted on the 1902 map. There was very little change to the area until 1962 when the tennis court, bowling green and recreational ground to the north had been established. By 1981 the modern housing estates surrounding the site had been established. No sports pitches were depicted within the site on any of the historic maps. Survival: The site is likely to have been in agricultural use from the medieval period onwards, and the field boundary has not changed since 1854. A linear bank, possibly covering a modern pipe, runs across the southern part of the site. Arable cultivation may have caused some truncation of sub-surface deposits, but below the plough zone the potential for the survival of unrecorded buried archaeological remains is considered to be moderate. Further investigations: Further archaeological investigation may be required if this site is brought forward for development. Significance: Unknown.
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Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: The 2002 aerial photograph shows the site as a cultivated or mowed field, with hedges around the sides, some possibly modern and associated with gardens to the south. The area to the immediate east was covered in trees. The site was under cultivation in 2003, but by 2009 was grassed, with a new, slightly curving earthen bank shown crossing the southeast side on a northeast to southwest alignment. The purpose of this is unclear, though its apparent recent origin suggests it may contain a pipe. By 2008, the site was covered with rough grass, and the area to the east had been stripped of trees. A new house had been built within the formerly wooded area to the east by 2012. To the north and east of the site are recreation grounds. No LiDAR is available for this area. Photograph references: Google Earth: 1999, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009. Bing Maps: 2016. RAF/CPE/UK/1880 3358 06-Dec-1946, HAS/UK/48/149 0014 04-Oct-1948.
Statutory Designations Reference Name Designation/ Site? Buffer? ID Grade 1151699 6, Sunderland Street II Y 1151700 22, Sunderland Street II Y 1151701 40, Sunderland Street II Y 1151703 3, Sunderland Street II Y 1151704 23, Sunderland Street II Y 1151705 The Garden Cottage II Y 1151725 8, Market Place II Y 1151726 14 and 15, Market Place II Y 1151727 16 and 16a, Market Place II Y 1151728 Darfield House II Y 1151729 Manor House II Y 1151748 3, Castlegate II Y 1151749 5 and 5a, Castlegate II Y 1151750 9, Castlegate II Y 1191475 3-6, Market Place II Y 1191491 13, Market Place II Y 1191574 St Leonard; Hospital II* Y 1191726 8, Sunderland Street II Y 1191748 24, Sunderland Street II Y 1191771 46, Sunderland Street II Y 1191795 Gospel Hall II Y 1191805 31, Sunderland Street II Y 1286922 11, 15 and 17, Sunderland Street II Y 1314740 Estate House II Y 1314741 9 And 10, Market Place II Y 1314743 Market Cross II Y 1314751 1 and 1a, Castlegate II Y
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1314752 7, Castlegate II Y 1314766 The Vicarage II Y 1314767 Carlton House II Y 1314769 Post Office II Y 1314770 27, Sunderland Street II Y
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 00223/01 St Leonard's A medieval hospital north of the market place, Tickhill. Y Hospital, Tickhill 00228/01 Post-Medieval Market Cross - Present Market Cross in town centre erected Y Market Cross, 1777 on site of older cross Tickhill 02166/01 Post-Medieval Timber framed house (50/52 Sunderland Street) Tickhill - Y Timber Framed demolished c.1967. Timber-framed 2 bay house, thought to be House, 50/52 late 16th century. Sunderland Street, Tickhill 03922/01 Post-Medieval to Probably 18th century, perhaps earlier. Stucco. Pantiled roof. Y Industrial Period Two storeys. Two bays: cased sashes with glazing, bars. House, Tickhill Building was occupied by NatWest Bank. May contain some timber-framed elements. 03927/01 Post-Medieval Built in 1671. Rubble. Modern pantiled roof. Two storeys. Four Y Cottage, bays Sunderland Street, Tickhill 03928/01 Modern Cottage Modern cottage embodying late 17th century or early 18th Y Built with 17th and century relief of Roche Abbey stone, now in front wall at level 18th Stone from of first floor windows. Formerly part of a pair of cottages on Roche Abbey, this site Sunderland Street 03937/01 Post-Medieval No 7 and 9 Sunderland Street. Manor House with 2 storeys, Y Manor, Tickhill much modernised and divided into 2 buildings for at least a century. 03938/01 Post-Medieval to Tallow Candle Factory. 3 storey brick warehouse with pantile Y Industrial Period roof and adjoining brick chimney. An unusual 19th century Candle Factory, survival. Tithes Lane, Tickhill 04087/01 Medieval Longcross Long cross silver penny. Edward I (1272-1307). Lincoln mint Y Silver Penny Find, 1280-1. Obverse: EDWR ANGL DNS HYB. Reverse: CIVI TAS LIN Tickhill COL 04088/01 Sixpence of Silver sixpence of Elizabeth I, dated 1595. Y Elizabeth I, York Road, Tickhill 04090/01 Metalwork Finds, Finds include items of a personal ornamental nature and coins Y Croft Drive, Tickhill of Roman and Medieval date. 04097/01 Post-Medieval to Village pump. Tap, with wooden casement for water pipe, over Y Industrial Period ?granite trough. Village Pump, Market Place, Tickhill
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04098/01 Nos. 14 and 15 Late 18th-century. Red brick. Modem pantiled roof. Coped Y Market Place, gables on cut kneelers. Three storeys. Diagonally placed brick Tickhill eaves cornice. Three bays 04100/01 Post-Medieval to Low 3-storey brick building with York sash windows on top Y Industrial Period floor. String courses between floors. Pantile roof façade early House, Market 19th century but building is older. Place, Tickhill 04206/03 Medieval Pottery Sherds of South Yorkshire Gritty Ware found in medieval Y Finds, Market deposits during excavation at Tickhill. Place, Tickhill 04220/01 The Red Lion Hotel, An 18th century inn. Y Tickhill 05611 Medieval ditches Ditches containing medieval pottery, indicating possible Y and undated pits former burgage plots. and wells, Tickhill ESY35 Evaluation at the In 1993 an archaeological evaluation was undertaken on land Y Red Lion, Market behind the Red Lion public house. The results identified a later Place, Tickhill medieval building in the northern part of the site and some earlier features in the southern part. ESY1372 Watching brief at Watching brief conducted during groundworks associated with Y 56 Sunderland the construction of a new dwelling. Ditches containing Street, Tickhill medieval pottery, along with undated pits and wells were observed. The ditches may represent the boundaries of former burgage plots.
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY5480 Playiong fields, Tickhill, Doncaster Playing Fields/ Recreation ground Y Y HSY5463 Alderson Drive, Tickhill, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y HSY5464 Lancaster Crescent, Lumley Drive, Meadow Private Housing Estate Y Drive, Doncaster HSY5477 Airedale Avenue, Tickhill, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y HSY5479 Cricket Ground, Tickhill, Doncaster Playing Fields/ Recreation ground Y HSY5483 Historic Burgage Core, Tickhill, Doncaster Burgage Plots Y HSY5505 Croft Drive, Tickhill, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y HSY5507 St Leonards Avenue, Tickhill, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y HSY5508 Allotment gardens, Tickhill Historic Core, Allotments Y Tickhill, Doncaster HSY5509 Scarborough Close, Tickhill, Doncaster Villas/ Detached Housing Y HSY5510 Castle Close, Tickhill, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y HSY5511 Castle Close, Tickhill, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y HSY5517 Sunderland Street villas, Tickhill, Doncaster Villas/ Detached Housing Y HSY5518 Sunderland Street (south side) Tickhill, Villas/ Detached Housing Y Doncaster HSY5519 Hansby Close, Tickhill, Doncaster Villas/ Detached Housing Y HSY5520 Stocks Meadow 2, Tickhill, Doncaster Piecemeal Enclosure Y
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Allocation Reference: 679 Area (Ha): 0.37 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SK 5196 9626 Site Name: South Farm, Common Lane, Clifton Settlement: Clifton
Allocation Recommendations
Archaeological significance of site Local Historic landscape significance Uncertain Suitability of site for allocation Uncertain archaeological constraint
Summary Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event - 4 records Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest Yes Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Partial n/a
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Allocation Reference: 679 Area (Ha): 0.37 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SK 5196 9626 Site Name: South Farm, Common Lane, Clifton Settlement: Clifton
Site assessment Known assets/character: There are no SMR events or monuments recorded within the site. Two findspots and two monuments are recorded within the buffer. A Roman brooch was found to the northwest of the Clifton and a hoard of 3rd- century AD Roman coins was found in two urns in 1705 to the east of the village. Directly to the east of the site, is a brick dovecote, a surviving outbuilding of Clifton Manor, and to the south is the site of Roman ironstone workings. There are no Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings within the site or the buffer. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project records three medieval to post-medieval lynchets in the north and west parts of the buffer, and an area of post-medieval ridge and furrow in the south. Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and the north of the buffer as the Hamlet of Clifton, comprising detached villas and some farm buildings. Elements of medieval planning such as Back Lane remain and therefore there is partial legibility of the former character. The southern and far east and western edges of the buffer are recorded as an area of enclosed land comprising strip fields named Clifton Field and Moot Hill Fields. Legibility is partial as the line of some of the medieval furlongs has been fossilised in the strip field boundaries. The area in the far north of the buffer is piecemeal enclosure which does not conform to the strip field pattern of adjacent fields. It is suggestive of a funnel and may have been used for access onto the common resulting in fragmentary legibility of the former landscape. The site currently comprises farm buildings and surrounding grassed yard areas. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The 1854 OS map depicted a number of buildings within the site, including at least one structure fronting onto Beacon Lane to the south, and a complex of farm buildings to the north, fronting onto Common Lane. At the northwest corner of the site was a linear range of buildings, probably a barn. The 1892 map shows the site in more detail, and depicts the surviving farmhouse in the centre-east part of the site and an outbuilding behind (shown as South Farm in 1962), that also appears to survive. A well was shown in the yard between the two. To the south, fronting onto Beacon Lane, was a U-shaped range of buildings, and to the north was another farm complex along Common Lane (Grange Farm in 1962), with a pump in the yard, and the long range of barns at the northwest corner. This had an adjoining circular structure to the north (outside the site), possibly a horse-gin, and was associated with further barns or stables further to the north. By 1929, the U-shaped building at the southern end of the site had been demolished. No further changes were shown in 1962, the last of the detailed maps for this area, though the 1987 1:10,000 map showed that most of the Grange Farm buildings had been demolished. The barn range at the northwest corner was still shown in 1994, along with South Farm and two outbuildings. Within the buffer, the 1854 map depicted further farm buildings and houses to the east of Common Lane, forming the historic core of Clifton and set within a series of lanes. Well Hill was shown within the northeast part of the buffer, and the remainder comprised fields, mainly suggestive of piecemeal enclosure from open field. Some fields had been enlarged by 1948, and by 1962 small numbers of new houses had been built to the east of the hamlet. No further substantial changes were shown by 1994. Survival: Several of the standing farm buildings within the site are likely to be of 18th-century origin, including a threshing barn and a farmhouse, and other barns. There is a moderate to high potential for buried remains associated with other buildings shown in 1854 at the southern edge of the site and to the north of South Farm. The farm buildings may have truncated any earlier remains, though there is the potential for relatively undisturbed buried archaeology within the historic yard areas.
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Further investigations: The standing buildings within the site are clearly of heritage value, and further assessment of their date, function and significance would be required to enable a consideration of the site’s capacity for development to be made. Significance: The farm buildings are considered to be of at least Local significance, though further assessment would be required to gain a clearer understanding of their heritage value. Buried remains associated with further farm buildings are also likely be considered to be of Local archaeological significance.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: Aerial photographs from 1999-2012 show the site has a stone house/farmhouse fronting onto Common Lane in the centre of the site on the eastern boundary, and six outbuildings in the north and west of the site. The north of the site appears to be being used to store farm machinery or scrap, with the southern part, to the south of the house, laid to grass. There is no available LiDAR data for the site. Street View shows the long barn range surviving in the northwest corner of the site. This is an interesting, stone- built structure with a substantial buttress against the eastern gable, slit openings in that gable and along the northern wall, and various blocked openings. The barn is of at least two main phases of construction. Less detail is visible for the outbuildings along the western side of the site, but one appears to be a stone-built threshing barn with a pantile roof, and it is apparent that at least two others are also stone-built and historically significant. South Farm itself is also stone built and of historic significance, though perhaps more altered. The farm buildings may be of 18th-century date. Photograph references: Google Earth: 1999, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009. Street View 2009. MAL/67097 0091 07-Dec-1967.
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 00911/01 ?Roman Ironstone Supposed Roman ironstone workings at Clifton. Y Workings at Clifton 00912/01 Roman Coin Hoard c.159 Roman coins ranging from Gallierius (A.D. 253-68) to Y and Associated Quintillus (A.D. 279) found at Clifton in 1705 in two urns (the Urns, Clifton larger of "two gallon size"). Both urns broken by the workmen. 02565/01 Roman Brooch Find A Roman Brooch was found in a field north west of the village Y northwest of of Clifton Clifton 03582/01 Brick Dovecote Brick dovecote with stone roof and coped gables. [Surviving Y Clifton, Conisb outbuilding of Clifton manor.]
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY5833 Clifton, Doncaster Villas/ Detached Housing Y Y HSY4191 Clifton Fields, Clifton, Doncaster Strip Fields Y HSY5831 Common Lane, Clifton, Doncaster Piecemeal Enclosure Y
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Allocation Reference: 681 Area (Ha): 0.09 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 5566 0332 Site Name: Land at Allendale Gardens, Sprotbrough Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area
Allocation Recommendations
Archaeological significance of site Unknown Historic landscape significance Negligible Suitability of site for allocation Uncertain archaeological constraint
Summary Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event - 5 records Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest No Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a
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Allocation Reference: 681 Area (Ha): 0.09 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 5566 0332 Site Name: Land at Allendale Gardens, Sprotbrough Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR does not record any findspots, monuments or events within the site. Three findspots and two monuments are recorded at the southeast edge of the buffer zone: prehistoric flint artefacts including an awl and a scraper; a circular enclosure or round barrow and a Roman field system recorded as cropmarks. There are no Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings within the site or the buffer. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project did not record any features within the site. Iron Age or Roman boundary ditches and levelled ridge and furrow were recorded at the southeast edge of the buffer. The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as Private Housing Estate. A number of estate developments are included within this unit which date from the 1940s through to the 1980s. Mostly semi detached properties with some detached, mostly built as later infill. There is little legibility of the early enclosed landscape. Character zones within the buffer are defined as Private Parkland and Agglomerated Fields. One area of historic landfill is recorded within the buffer zone. The site currently comprises overgrown gardens within a housing estate. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The site formed part of a field at the time of the 1854 OS map. The site remained fields in 1948, but had become part of a large domestic garden by 1956. The site remained part of a garden at the time of the 1992 OS map Numerous features were shown within the buffer zone on the 1854 OS map, including fields, field boundaries, Sprotbrough Road and Newton Lane. Mill Hill and Richmond Hill were marked in the northern part of the buffer in 1892, with housing and two LNER railway lines shown on the 1930 map. Further housing had been constructed by 1948, with more shown in 1956. Extensive housing development had taken place in the immediate vicinity of the site by 1959. A nursery with several large greenhouses stood to the north and west of the site at that date, while a Methodist chapel, tennis courts, a community centre, hotels, warehouses and clubs were also shown. The nursery remained extant in 1984, but had been replaced by Allendale Gardens and further housing by 1992. Survival: The site appears to have remained undeveloped since at least 1854. Some ground disturbance within the site is indicated on the Lidar data, and the present day tree cover may have caused some root damage. The potential for the survival of unrecorded buried archaeological remains is considered to be moderate to low. Further investigations: Further archaeological investigation may be required if the site is brought forward for development. Significance: Unknown.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: Twenty-first-century aerial photographs show the site as gardens in 2002, scrub in 2005 and as an area of dense vegetation overgrowth and immature trees by 2012. Lidar data shows some ground disturbance within the site. It is not clear if this is due to excavation to the dumping of made ground, perhaps in relation to the construction of
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the adjacent houses. Photograph references: Google Earth: 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2012 and 2015. Bing Maps: 2015. Lidar data tile SE 5503 DTM 1m.
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 01871/01 Romano-British Field system - aerial photographs show an extensive field Y Field System system and a round barrow between village (Newton) and between Newton railway". and the Railway 01871/02 Site of a circular Round Barrow Y enclosure or round barrow near Newton 01966/01 Unclassified flint 1 reworked flake and 1 awl/side scraper found on the surface Y objects, Newton of a ploughed field 1977/78 01966/02 Prehistoric Awl Prehistoric Awl Y 01966/03 Prehistoric scraper Scraper Y
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY4269 Cusworth Park 3, Doncaster Private Parkland Y HSY5093 Suburban estates to the north of Newton, Private Housing Estate Y Y Doncaster HSY5781 Newton Lane, Newton, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y HSY5942 Challenger Drive, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y
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Allocation Reference: 685 Area (Ha): 0.562 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 5273 0811 Site Name: Former Reservoir Site, Ridge Balk Lane Settlement: Adwick le Street/ Woodlands
Allocation Recommendations
Archaeological significance of site Unknown Historic landscape significance Negligible Suitability of site for allocation Uncertain archaeological constraint
Summary Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - 1 Listed Building - 4 SMR record/event - 3 records/8 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest No No Estimated sub-surface disturbance Extensive n/a
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Allocation Reference: 685 Area (Ha): 0.562 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 5273 0811 Site Name: Former Reservoir Site, Ridge Balk Lane Settlement: Adwick le Street/ Woodlands
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR records no monuments or events within the site itself. There are three monuments and eight events in the buffer zone. The monuments are the Woodlands Colliery Village, a model village constructed in the early 20th century for miners at the nearby Brodsworth Colliery, at the south-east end of the buffer; and the Roman Ridge road, a military road from Lincoln to York, via Doncaster, which runs just outside the western site boundary. The events relate to geophysical surveys, watching briefs, surveys and trial trenches, all located within the western half of the buffer. The results of these investigations recorded areas of Romano-British linear boundaries with possible rectilinear enclosures, possibly forming a 'ladder settlement' arrangement, with pottery provisionally dated to between the 1st and 2nd centuries AD. There is one Scheduled Monument within the buffer, extending into the southwest edge of the site. This is a surviving section of the agger of the Roman Ridge road mentioned above. There are four Grade II listed buildings within the buffer, which relate to houses at Woodlands built in 1908 for the Brodsworth Colliery Company. These are all located at the south-eastern end of the buffer. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project does not record any features within the site. Within the buffer, fragmentary traces of Iron Age to Roman field boundaries are present to the west of the site. Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and the north-eastern area of the buffer as a planned social housing estate forming part of Woodlands colliery village; though part of the later development of the village this area continues the geometric principles of the earlier phases. Within the southeast part of the buffer is part of the original Woodlands development, built after the principles of the garden suburb movement. Within the south of the buffer, the landscape is characterised as the site of Brodsworth Colliery, a landscaped former coal mine now regenerating as meadows and woodlands. To the west of the site is a small modern metal trades development and the Redhouse Interchange, a commercial development of sheds and warehouses. The site currently comprises a single parcel of land, with modern fence boundaries. Two small brick structures are present at the southern end of the site. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: On the 1851 OS map, the site is within the western half of a single field, with the Roman road to the immediate west, and Ridge Balk to the south. The current northern site boundary is present as a field boundary. There is little change on the site until 1930, by which time a covered reservoir had been built within the centre of the site, with several smaller ancillary buildings to the south. The eastern site boundary had also been established by this time. Some of the smaller buildings at the southern end of the site had been removed by 1971, and a building had been constructed to the north of the reservoir. There is no change shown on the site on the 1982 map. Within the buffer, in 1851 the majority of the area comprised fields. The site is located at a crossroads of Long Lands Lane, Ridge Balk, and the Roman Road. The Roman Ridge road is clearly marked on all the historic OS maps. A small limestone quarry is located to the west of the site, on the opposite side of the Roman road. There is little change until 1906, when an area of woodland appears to the south of the site, labelled Terry Holt. By 1930, to the immediate north of the site, filter beds were present, associated with the water works which are present on the site itself. Brodsworth Main Colliery had been established to the south of the site and to the south-east, a housing estate was built, associated with the colliery. The small quarry to the east of the site was no longer in use. By 1955, a housing estate to the immediate east of the site was under construction, which by 1961 was complete, extending northwards. Allotment gardens had been established to the west of the site, on the opposite side of the Roman road.
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Survival: A reservoir located with the site from at least 1930 until the early 21st century means that the potential for survival of any buried archaeological remains across the majority of the site is likely to be low. Sub-surface pipelines and associated infrastructure may also have disturbed buried remains outside the area of the reservoir. Historic maps indicate that small ancillary buildings were present at the southern end of the site, although some of this area, particularly a narrow strip to the east of the site, does not appear to have been subject to any deep- ground disturbance associated with the water works. As such, the survival potential in the eastern area of the site is considered to be moderate. Further investigations: Consideration of the setting of the Scheduled Monument of the Roman Ridge road is likely to be required if the site is brought forward for development. Given the proximity of the Scheduled Monument, and the previous investigations within the buffer zone which recorded numerous Roman features, some further archaeological investigation of the potential for buried remains may be required in the strip at the eastern side. Significance: Unknown. Remains associated with Iron Age to Roman activity could be of Local to Regional significance.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: The buildings present on the 1982 OS map are still present on 2002-2009 Google Earth images, but by 2015 the main reservoir structure and the building to the north had been removed, leaving only two smaller structures to the south. The reservoir appears to have been infilled and the area grassed over. No previously unrecorded heritage assets within the site or buffer have been identified from Lidar data. Photograph references: Google Earth images 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009. Lidar data file SE5208. SE5208/2 NMR 723/202-203 09-Jul-1974.
Statutory Designations Reference Name Designation/ Site? Buffer? ID Grade 1003672 Roman Ridge, Roman road, NW of Doncaster SM Y 1151485 65 and 67, The Crescent II Y 1151486 64 and 66, The Crescent II Y 1191695 73 and 75, The Crescent II Y 1314857 23 and 25, West Avenue II Y
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 03039/01 'Roman Ridge', Stretches of Roman road used recently as a bridle path. It Y Roman Road at would have been the main Roman road from Doncaster Adwick le towards Castleford. Two phases of road were identified in Street/Bentley excavations undertaken ahead of the construction of Doncaster Bypass. Topographic survey in 2009 identified areas of surviving ridge (agger). 04432/01 Woodlands Colliery Model village constructed in the early 20th century for miners Y Village at the nearby Brodsworth Colliery. 04915 Roman Road; Suggested Roman road following the original line of military Y Bawtry to Adwick advance from Lincoln towards York, entering South Yorkshire
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Le Street via in the south-east at Bawtry, travelling north-west through Doncaster Doncaster and Adwick Le Street and then on towards Castleford. ESY337 Trial Trench In September and October 1996 an archaeological evaluation Y Evaluation at was undertaken. The trenches were positioned above features Adwick Le Street previous identified from a geophysical survey. A number of enclosures were located and investigated. ESY340 Geophysical Survey In 1995 a geophysical survey was undertaken at Adwick Le Y at Adwick Le Street Street. The survey located a number of features previously identified on aerial photographs including field systems, an enclosure and double-ditched 'droveway'. ESY342 Geophysical Survey In June and September 2000 a geophysical survey was Y at Adwick Le Street undertaken at Adwick Le Street. The results complement previous investigations and show an extensive area of linear boundaries with possible rectilinear enclosures. ESY358 Watching brief at In 2008 a watching brief was conducted at the former Y the Former Brodsworth Colliery. A number of cropmarks of unknown date Brodsworth Colliery were observed along with 20th century deposits. ESY986 Survey of Roman Measured and photographic survey of archaeological and Y Ridge Cycle path modern features along path of cycle route route ESY1144 Watching brief on Watching brief on topsoil stripping of the site of Unit 6, Y site of Unit 6, Redhouse, Adwick le Street (part of field system north and Redhouse, Adwick west of Enclosure 8, excavated in 2004 - thought to be Iron le Street Age in origin but principally Romano-British in date). ESY1145 Watching brief on Watching brief on topsoil stripping of the site of Unit 2, Y site of Unit 2, Redhouse, Adwick le Street (Enclosure 6 and elements of the Redhouse, Adwick surrounding field system - thought to be Iron Age in origin but le Street principally Romano-British in date) ESY1407 Evaluation Seven trenches excavated along a section of the Roman Ridge Y trenching at Roman Roman Road between Sunnyfields and Red House. At the Ridge Roman Road, southern part of the investigated area limestone rubble Adwick le Street, possibly representing a former road surface was recorded. Doncaster Several of the trenches failed to find remains of the road due to disturbance caused by Brodsworth Colliery. The presumed line of the road may need to be re-evaluated in the southern portion, where a nearby and parallel bank may represent the true road route.
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY4905 Woodlands (north), Adwick upon Street, Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y Y Doncaster HSY4154 Redhouse Interchange, Brodsworth, Doncaster Warehousing Y HSY4891 Site of Pit Head, Brodsworth Colliery, Reclaimed Coal Mine Y Doncaster HSY4894 Woodlands (North of Church), Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y HSY5722 Long Lands Lane, Doncaster Metal Trades (Support) Y
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Allocation Reference: 686 Area (Ha): 0.02 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 5678 0179 Site Name: 123, 123a, 125, 129a & 131 Balby Rd Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area
Allocation Recommendations
Archaeological significance of site Negligible Historic landscape significance Negligible Suitability of site for allocation No archaeological constraint
Summary Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event - 1 record Cropmark/Lidar evidence No No Cartographic features of interest Yes Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Extensive n/a
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Allocation Reference: 686 Area (Ha): 0.02 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 5678 0179 Site Name: 123, 123a, 125, 129a & 131 Balby Rd Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR does not record any monuments or events within the site. One monument is recorded in the eastern part of the buffer, a shop used as the set for the ‘Open All Hours’ television programme. No Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings are recorded within the site or the buffer zone. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project did not record any features within the site or buffer. The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as suburban commercial core, developed along Balby Road in the late 19th century, initially as larger terraced villa-type properties and now dominated by commercial businesses. Some of the terraced properties remain. Further character zones within the buffer include schools, an area of heavy metal trades industrialised since the later 19th century, a public park, allotment gardens, a mixture of terraced and semi-detached housing and a private housing estate. The site comprises two small plots, each currently occupied by three houses at the north and south ends of a row of terraced housing fronting onto Balby Road. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The 1854 OS map showed the site as within a square field or garden at the junction of Balby Road and Carr Hill. A house was shown to the northeast, possibly within the site. In 1892, the site was still mainly a garden, with a building at the southwest corner. This had been demolished and a new terrace of 10 houses constructed by 1930, with small yards to the rear. The site covers six of the houses, three at each end of the row, and remains unchanged to the present day. Within the buffer, the 1854 map shows a gravel and sand pit just to the east of the site. A few houses are shown along Carr Hill at this date, but the area mainly comprised fields and nurseries, with an area of parkland associated with Westfield House to the northwest. By 1892, terraced and semi-detached housing and a chapel were shown to the south along Balby Road, with more terraces to the north, and to the southeast along Carr Hill. The gravel pit was no longer shown. By 1930, the area to the west, south and northeast was dominated by terraced housing, either built or under construction. A group of buildings were shown to the immediate east of the site, possibly workshops or outbuildings; these had been replaced by a motor garage by 1961, at which date the terraces to the immediate northeast of the site had been demolished. the garage had been extended by 1972, and a warehouse built to the northeast of the site. A clothing factory was shown to the southeast of the garage. No further changes were shown by 1992. Survival: The site contains terraced houses with basements, indicating that no buried archaeological remains are likely to survive within the site. The houses are of early 20th-century date, constructed between 1903 and 1930, with some major recent modifications to the ground floor frontage. Further investigations: No further archaeological investigations are likely to be required if the site is brought forward for development. Significance: The standing buildings are considered to be of minor Local heritage significance. The significance of buried archaeology is negligible.
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Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: The 2002-2009 aerial photograph shows the row of terraced houses within the site, and a narrow yard area to the rear, open to the southeast and used partially for parking. The garage buildings are shown to the southeast. The 2015 image is obscured by clouds, but Street View imagery shows the houses as brick-built, three storeys in height including attics with dormer windows and pitched roofs. The ground floor frontage of all the buildings has been clad in grey tiles, and have identical doors, with the lower windows featuring metal roller shutters. The first floor windows have stone sills and lintels, but modern glazing. The rear view indicates that the site slopes downwards to the east, and the buildings have a basement level. The Lidar data shows only the location of the buildings. Photograph references: Google Earth coverage 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009 & 2015. Google Street View 2015. Lidar data tile SE5601 DTM 1m.
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 04752 "Open All Hours" Open All Hours Shop, Lister Avenue, Balby, Doncaster Y Shop, Lister Avenue, Balby, Doncaster
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY5484 Balby Road, Balby, Doncaster Commercial Core-Suburban Y Y HSY5277 Balby Carr Bank, Doncaster Metal Trades (Heavy) Y HSY5428 Sandford Road, Balby, Doncaster Allotments Y HSY5466 Balby Road, Balby, Doncaster School Y HSY5467 Burton Avenue, Balby, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y HSY5468 Lister Avenue, Balby, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y HSY5469 Queen Street, Balby, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y HSY5473 Westfield Park, Balby, Doncaster Public Park Y HSY5474 King Edward Road, Balby, Doncaster School Y HSY5476 St John's Road, Balby, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y HSY5485 Westfield Road, Balby, Doncaster Semi-Detached Housing Y
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Allocation Reference: 687 Area (Ha): 0.56 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SK 4754 9968 Site Name: The Embankment, Leach Lane Industrial Estate Settlement: Mexborough
Allocation Recommendations
Archaeological significance of site Unknown Historic landscape significance Negligible Suitability of site for allocation Uncertain archaeological constraint
Summary Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - 1 SMR record/event - 4 records Cropmark/Lidar evidence No No Cartographic features of interest No No Estimated sub-surface disturbance Partial n/a
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Allocation Reference: 687 Area (Ha): 0.56 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SK 4754 9968 Site Name: The Embankment, Leach Lane Industrial Estate Settlement: Mexborough
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR does not record any monuments or events within the site. Four monuments are recorded within the buffer: the site of two pottery works and a former National School in the north part of the buffer, and Mexborough railway station to the south. The are no Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings within the site. One grade II listed building is located within the buffer, Mexborough railway station. Historic Environment Characterisation records the site as part of a light metal trades complex, dominated by the imposing Coltran Works building on the canal side, currently disused. This area of former gardens and orchards was shown as partially industrialised by 1891, when a corn mill and crane were shown. There is no legibility of earlier landscapes. Other character zones within the buffer include an area of valley floor meadows which retains some of the character of medieval and later enclosure; as well as modern agglomerated fields, business parks, allotments, various types of housing from 19th-century terraces to modern villas, modern road network infrastructure, industrial complexes and the urban commercial core of Mexborough. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project does not record any features within the site. Two 20th-century air raid shelters are recorded within the northeast and northwest parts of the buffer. The site is currently a fairly narrow strip of hard-standing, bounded to the south by the Don Navigation and to the north by a modern slip road. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The 1854 OS map depicts the site as part of part of three fields to the south of Market Street. Development was shown along the street frontage north of the site and two buildings were shown to the south of the western plot, possibly extending into the site. By 1892, a lane was shown leading from Market Street to the Leech Bridge across the canal, running along the boundary at the western edge of the site. A large building, one of four within the eastern field, may have extended into the site; the nature of these buildings is unclear from the map. By 1903, these buildings had been replaced by a saw mill which may extend into the site. The saw mill had been demolished by 1930, when two smaller buildings were shown at the eastern side of the site, and a square building within the western tip. By 1971 the current northern boundary of the site had been established, by the construction of a new road network to the north, removing Market Street and all the buildings along it. New council depot buildings were shown within the central part of the site, and the smaller building to the west was labelled 'works', with vacant land to the east of the depot. This layout was mainly unchanged in 1988. Within the buffer, the 1854 map shows occupation concentrated to the north of the site along Market Street and Oxford Street. A single rectangular structure was located within the buffer to the east, close to the Don Navigation. By 1892, houses and works buildings were shown to the west of the site. In 1930, a police station was shown to the north of the site, fronting onto Market Street, and in 1958 an area of terraced land was shown to the north of the eastern end of the site, with a fire station and youth club on the Market Street frontage. The buildings fronting onto Market Street had been demolished by 1971, when changes to the road network had cut across the buffer. Survival: Much of the northern edge of the site is likely to have been disturbed during the construction of the A6023 and associated slip road during the late 1960s. The construction of the Council Depot may also have disturbed below- ground deposits though the depth of foundations for this building is unknown. The potential for the survival of remains associated with the 19th-century buildings within the site is considered to be moderate. The location of the site in the alluvial plain of the Don suggests that there may be the potential for the survival of medieval or earlier remains at a significant depth below the current ground levels.
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Further investigations: Further archaeological investigation may be required if this site is brought forward for development. Significance: Unknown. Remains associated with the 19th-century buildings within the site could be considered to be of Local archaeological significance.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: The 21st-century aerial photography indicates the Council Depot was demolished by 2008. Since then the site has remained as an open area of hard standing. Photograph references: Google Earth coverage, 2002, 2008 & 2009.
Statutory Designations Reference Name Designation/ Site? Buffer? ID Grade 1314843 Mexborough Station and Station House II Y
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 03619/01 Mexborough Rock Pottery works established by 1839, possibly for earthenware Y Pottery Works production. The works closed in 1883 and by 1974 the site was occupied by a garage and a chapel. 03620/01 Emerys Pottery Built before 1838 between Mexbrough Rock Pottery and Don Y Works, Pottery. In 1841 one kiln and one workshop were shown. The Mexborough last date of known use was 1886. 04395/01 National School, This school, located on Bank Street, was built by public Y Mexborough subscription in 1865. The building itself remains intact though it has been converted slightly for use as a workshop. 04396/01 Mexborough The 1861 Census for Mexborough shows 65 people as being Y Railway Station employed by the railways, and a further 22 worked in the foundry - where the wheels would have been made. By 1871, the figures had risen to 84 and 50 respectively.
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SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY5279 Coltran and environs, Mexborough, Doncaster Metal Trades (Light) Y Y HSY3901 Swinton Meadows Industrial Estate, Business Park Y Rotherham HSY4554 Denaby Common, Denaby, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y HSY5187 Docliffe Common (west) Terraced Housing Y HSY5224 Garden Street Allotments, Mexborough, Allotments Y Doncaster HSY5226 'The Athletic Ground', Mexborough, Doncaster Sports Ground Y HSY5246 Westview, Mexborough, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y HSY5255 Adwick Road to Harlington Road, Mexborough, Commercial Core-Urban Y Doncaster HSY5267 Mexborough Dual Carriageway (eastern Ring Road / Bypass Y section), Doncaster HSY5269 Mexborough Bypass (western section), Ring Road / Bypass Y Doncaster HSY5274 Industrial area north of Don Navigation, Other Industry Y Mexborough, Doncaster HSY5281 Warmex Buildings (site of Manor House), Other Industry Y Church Street, Mexborough, Doncaster HSY5287 North side of Church Street, Mexborough, Villas/ Detached Housing Y Doncaster HSY5302 Bank Street Methodist Church on site of Religious (Worship) Y 'Mexborough Rock Pottery', Doncaster HSY5303 Bank Street, Mexborough, Doncaster Commercial Core-Urban Y HSY5304 High Street, New Mexborough, Doncaster Commercial Core-Urban Y HSY5307 Shopping centre, High Street, Mexborough Shopping Centre Y HSY5378 Land north of Denaby Old Village, Doncaster Valley Floor Meadows Y
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Allocation Reference: 691 (=468) Area (Ha): 6.59 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SK 5061 9967 Site Name: The Earth Centre, Denaby Main Settlement: Conisbrough
Allocation Recommendations
Archaeological significance of site Local Historic landscape significance Negligible Suitability of site for allocation Uncertain archaeological constraint
Summary Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - 1 SMR record/event 1 record 4 records Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest Yes No Estimated sub-surface disturbance Partial n/a
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Allocation Reference: 691 (=468) Area (Ha): 6.595 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SK 5061 9967 Site Name: The Earth Centre, Denaby Main Settlement: Conisbrough
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR records one monument within the site, the site of the 19th-century Providence Glassworks, located at the western side of the site. Four findspots are located within the buffer zone, all surface finds of flint artefacts, mainly dating to the Mesolithic period and recovered from near Cadeby Cliff to the northeast of the site and the Ings to the northwest. No Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings are recorded within the site. One grade II listed milepost is located within the buffer zone. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project did not record any features within the site. Within the buffer, 20th-century air raid shelters and post-medieval terraced ground in the southern part of the buffer. Historic Environment Characterisation records the landscape character within the site as a mixture of Modern Regenerated Scrubland and Suburban Commercial Core. The regenerated scrubland is on the site of the former Providence Glass Works at the western end of the site, with an adjacent strip to the east formerly occupied by 19th-century housing. Further character zones within the buffer include Regenerated Scrubland on the site of Denaby Main Colliery, modern residential, commercial, educational and leisure development in Denaby, all dating from the 20th century, with the sites of reclaimed coal mining spoil heaps to the north at the Ings, and former Cadeby Main Colliery to the northeast at the Earth Centre. Historic landfill data records an area of former infill to the immediate east of the site, at ‘River Don and Conisbrough Station’. The nature of the infill is not recorded. The site is currently a car parking area surfaced with hardcore, with a modern lightweight building at the eastern end. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The 1854 map showed the site occupied by fields, many of which were narrow with sinuous boundaries characteristic of enclosure from medieval open field. The River Don ran on a different route to its current alignment, forming a wide meander with the land extending further north than it does at present. The central area of the site was labelled 'Wrangholme', with the bend of the river at the southeast end of the meander labelled 'The Devil's Elbow'. This was north of the current area of the site. The southern boundary was formed by a railway line. The 1892 map showed the Providence Glass Works at the western end of the site, with buildings labelled kilns, a series of other irregularly-shaped buildings, and an internal railway system linked to the main railway which formed the southern boundary of the site. Two rows of terraced housing were shown to the immediate west of the works. These buildings were accessed by Kilner’s Bridge over the railway and a road running along the south boundary of the site. The area to the west was shown as two fields, with many of the former boundaries having been removed. By 1906, the glass works had expanded further, and the bridge at the southeast end of the site was shown, crossing the River Don, with a road leading to it along the southern boundary of the site from Kilner's Bridge. The glassworks area was densely occupied by buildings by 1930, with the western row of housing having been demolished and replaced by factory buildings. Two semi-detached houses were shown at the southeast corner of the site (labelled Cadeby Villas in 1962). In 1956, the Providence Glass Works was still labelled, though all the kilns and buildings at the western side of the works had been demolished. Only a few structures were shown at the eastern side of the works site. In 1962, a colliery spoil tip covered the majority of the eastern side of the site. The former glass works buildings west of the spoil tip were labelled NCB Offices in 1975, with scrubland at the western tip of the site. By 1994, the entire site was shown as vacant land, with the road network still shown along the southern edge and road and footbridges over the Don at the eastern end. The route of the river had been straightened by this date, with a canalised section cut across the former meander. This forms the current boundary of the site. Within the buffer, the 1851 map showed the South Yorkshire, Doncaster and Goole Railway running along the
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southern boundary of the site, and irregularly shaped fields between the railway and the river as well as south of the railway. The course of a silted up former meander of the river was shown just to the north of the site, as an isolated crescent-shaped pond with adjacent osier bed. Areas labelled Near Under Hill Field and Sandy Rood Field were located to the south of the railway, probably the names of medieval open fields that had previously extended up to the river. Cadeby Cliff was located in the northeast part of the buffer, Mexborough Low Lock at the northwest end, and North Cliff to the south. The 1894 map showed development at Denaby Main village, with housing to the south of the railway and in the southwest part of the buffer. Limekilns were shown to the south of Kilner's Bridge and Cadeby Colliery was shown at the eastern edge of the buffer, north of the River Don. Railway sidings associated with Denaby Main colliery were in the western part of the buffer. Denaby Main village and Cadeby Main colliery had both expanded by 1904 and further by 1956. A railway line linking Cadeby Main colliery to the main line had been built across the Don to the immediate west of the site by 1904. The 1967 map showed the buffer area north of the Don and west of Cadeby Main as almost entirely covered with spoil heap; these were still present in 1980, though the Cadeby Main and Denaby Main colliery buildings and railway infrastructure had all been demolished, the sites shown as vacant land. Survival: The extent of sub-surface survival is currently uncertain as the site has been landscaped following the closure of Cadeby and Denaby Main collieries, including the re-routing of the River Don along the northern boundary of the site. A spoil heap formerly covered most of the site, and it is uncertain whether this was entirely removed or used to build up the current land surface. The extent of works buildings and kilns shown at the late 19th-century Providence Glassworks at the western end of the site suggests that there is a high potential for the survival of buried archaeological remains associated with these structures. Further investigations: Further archaeological investigation may be required if this site is brought forward for development. Significance: Remains associated with the glass works and workers’ housing could be considered to be of Local archaeological significance. Note: this site covers the same area as site 468.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: The 2002 aerial photographs showed the central and eastern part of the site as a car park for the Earth Centre to the north of the new route of the River Don. Surfacing appeared to be mainly hardcore, and a modern lightweight building to the east may have been visitor facilities. To the west, the site was shown as rough grass. By 2008, the car park was no longer shown and the whole site appeared to have been either stripped of topsoil or covered with hardcore. No evidence for former buildings was visible. This remained unchanged by 2015, with the exception of some rough grass regeneration in places. Lidar coverage for the site is limited to the land immediately adjacent to the river, and does not shown any previously unrecorded features. Photograph references: Google Earth coverage 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009 & 2015. Lidar data file SK5099. RAF/CPE/UK/2011 5376 16-Apr-1947; MAL/67023 0024 31-Mar-1967.
Statutory Designations Reference Name Designation/ Site? Buffer? ID Grade 1192827 Milepost in pavement to front of number 10 II Y
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SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 02393/01 Mesolithic Flint Mesolithic flint finds found on field surface above rock face Y Finds, Cadeby after ploughing. Interpreted as possible rock shelter. 02408/01 Flint Tool Finds, Flint tools; 2 scrapers and 3 utilised flakes Y Cadeby 02411/01 Flint Tool Finds, top Flint tools: 5 utilised flakes from ploughed field on top of Y of Cadeby Cliff Cadeby Cliff. Present location: Doncaster Museum. 02425/01 Prehistoric Flints Mesolithic flints - numbers not stated. Found in field after Y and Romano-British ploughing 19.10.1979. Blades, scrapers, burins, arrowhead Pottery found at (leaf type)/ Also Romano-British grey ware sherds. 'High The Ings, Doncaster number of microliths'. 03723/01 Providence Providence Glass Works (1844-1939) produced bottles and Y Glassworks, jars. The works was founded by the Kilner Brothers as an Conisbrough addition to the main factory at Thornhill Lees and Castleford (West Yorkshire).
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY5383 Site of Providence Glassworks, Conisbrough, Regenerated Scrubland Y Y Doncaster HSY5384 Former housing area around site of Providence Regenerated Scrubland Y Y Glassworks, Conisbrough, Doncaster HSY5386 North east of Kilner Bridge, Conisbrough, Commercial Core-Suburban Y Y Doncaster HSY4280 The Earth Centre (Former Cadeby Colliery), Tourist Attraction Y Conisborough, Doncaster HSY4558 The Ings, Denaby / Mexborough, Doncaster Reclaimed Coal Mine Y HSY5326 North Cliff Hill (Conisbrough Crags), Commons and greens Y Conisbrough, Doncaster HSY5363 Denaby Main East, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y HSY5377 Undeveloped site of Denaby Main Colliery, Regenerated Scrubland Y Doncaster HSY5385 Land north of Doncaster Road, Denaby Main, Regenerated Scrubland Y Doncaster HSY5420 St Albans RC and Balby Street Schools, School Y Conisbrough / Denaby Main, Doncaster HSY5421 Crags Road, Denaby Main, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y HSY5423 Church Road, Denaby Main, Doncaster Semi-Detached Housing Y HSY5424 Commercial area, Denaby Main, Doncaster Commercial Core-Suburban Y
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Allocation Reference: 695 Area (Ha): 0.15 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 5449 1008 Site Name: Land off Owston Road, Carcroft Settlement: Carcroft Skellow
Allocation Recommendations
Archaeological significance of site Unknown Historic landscape significance Negligible Suitability of site for allocation Uncertain archaeological constraint
Summary Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event - - Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest No Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a
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Allocation Reference: 695 Area (Ha): 0.15 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 5449 1008 Site Name: Land off Owston Road, Carcroft Settlement: Carcroft Skellow
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR does not records any features within the site or the buffer zone. No Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings are recorded within the site or the buffer zone. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project recorded Second World War air raid shelters and post-medieval ridge and furrow at the western end of the buffer zone. The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as modern agglomerated fields resulting from rationalised piecemeal enclosure with only partial legibility of the post-medieval strip fields enclosed from medieval open field. Within the buffer zone, further character areas mostly comprise modern housing, schools and retail buildings. The site was in agricultural use from at least 1841 and remained so into the early 21st century. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: No features were shown within the site on Thomas Jefferys’ 1771 map of Yorkshire. The site was shown as open land crossed by Wellsyke Drain on the 1841 Ordnance Survey map. A pronounced curve that was shown in the course of the drain had been straightened by 1854. No change had occurred within the site by 1906. The site has remained open land. Within the buffer zone, Carcroft and the course of the High Street were shown to the west of the site on the 1771 Jefferys map. Spring Head or Bog Plantation was shown in the eastern part of the buffer zone on the 1841 OS map. St. Andrew’s Church, a Mission Church, a school and a housing development were shown in 1932. Allotments shown to the south of the site in 1932 remained extant in 1990. Several air raid shelters were constructed within the west of the buffer during the Second World War, while a depot and a sewage pumping station were constructed between 1968 and 1978. Survival: Due to the lack of deep ground disturbance in the site, the potential for the survival of any previously unrecorded buried archaeological remains is considered to be moderate. Further investigations: Further investigation may be required if the site is brought forward for development. Significance: Unknown.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: Twenty-first century aerial photographs show the site as scrub, with a mix of both immature and mature trees. No Lidar coverage is available for this site. Photograph references: Google Earth Coverage 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009. RAF/CPE/UK/1880 5076 06-Dec-1946; RAF/541/31 4403 18-May-1948.
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SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY132 Fields to the West of West Farm Owston Modern agglomerated fields Y Y HSY102 Carcroft Primary School Modern School Y HSY108 Carcroft 'New Village' Modern planned estate (social Y housing) HSY116 Carcroft Commercial Centre / Former Carcroft Modern Retail Park Y Common HSY121 Trafalgar Estate - Crossdale Gardens, Modern Planned Estate (Social Y Martindale Walk. Housing) HSY251 High street townhouses, Carcroft Industrial to Modern Villas/ Y Detached Housing HSY123 Trafalgar Estate: North - Carcroft Modern Planned Estate (Social Y Housing) HSY131 Owston Common Industrial to Modern Drained Y Wetland HSY99 Owston Road Allotments, Carcroft Modern allotments Y HSY95 Owston Rd, Askern Road and Queens Road, Modern Terraced Housing Y Carcroft
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Allocation Reference: 696 Area (Ha): 0.04 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 5658 0594 Site Name: LW Yates Steel Fabrication, Cooke St, Bentley Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area
Allocation Recommendations
Archaeological significance of site Local Historic landscape significance Uncertain Suitability of site for allocation Uncertain archaeological constraint
Summary Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - 1 SMR record/event - 1 record Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest No Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Extensive n/a
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Allocation Reference: 696 Area (Ha): 0.04 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 5658 0594 Site Name: LW Yates Steel Fabrication, Cooke St, Bentley Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area
Site assessment Known assets/character: There are no SMR records for the site itself. Within the buffer zone, one findspot of a Neolithic polished flint axe is located to the east of the site. There are no Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings within the site. There is one listed building within the buffer zone, the grade II listed Bentley pinfold. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project does not record any features within the site. Post-medieval ridge and furrow is recorded within the buffer zone, to the north of the site. The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as a residential planned estate, containing boundaries probably relating to historic 'burgage type plots' radiating from Cooke Street. Before the rapid expansion of Bentley in the early twentieth century, historic maps show a probable large medieval village or small town. Plan elements which are likely to have a medieval date include Cooke Street; Jossey Lane; Mill Gate/Chapel Street; and Finkle Street. There is partial legibility of the earlier plot boundaries within which these early twentieth century buildings were developed. Character types in the buffer zone include a variety of housing, parks, schools and allotments. The site is currently occupied by a building fronting onto Cooke Street with a smaller building set behind it. The immediate surrounding area of the site comprises modern housing, with a small area of parkland a little further to the north. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The 1851 OS map shows a building on the site, although this is unlabelled and its function is unclear. By 1906 the building was labelled smithy. In 1959 it was labelled ‘Works’, and another building had been constructed behind it. No change is evident on the 1992 map. Within the buffer zone, the area to the south of the site was already well developed as the settlement of Bentley by 1851. Breweries, pubs, chapels, schools, mills, farm, a workhouse and numerous houses are all marked on the map in Bentley at this time. Cooke Street had numerous buildings along it, and structures were present to either side of the structure present on the site. These had long, narrow property boundaries extending to the north- west, possibly a remnant of the original medieval Burbage plots. Further to the north of the site was mostly fields. By 1930 development had occurred to the north-west of the site, with a new housing development. A Miners’ Welfare Park had also been established to the north of the site, with a small area of trees immediately backing onto the site. Additional housing had also been constructed to the east and north of the site, off Askern Road and Finkle Street. By 1959 a council yard and depot are shown next to the site. By 1990 a number of buildings fronting on to Cooke Street had been cleared, with a small cluster remaining around and within the site. Survival: A building has been present on the site since at least 1851, and remained so until the 21st century, with the addition of a second building by 1959. Google Earth images from 2015 appear to show the buildings demolished, although the image quality is poor and this cannot be fully determined. However, the potential for the below- ground survival of foundations, associated cellars, floor surfaces and possible industrial debris associated with the function of the buildings is considered to be high. Earlier remains may also be present, as the site is situated within the medieval core of Bentley. Further investigations: Further archaeological investigation may be required if the site is brought forward for development.
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Significance: Remains associated with small-scale 19th and early 20th century industry may be present on the site, and are likely to be considered of Local archaeological significance. The significance of any earlier remains is currently Unknown.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: Early 21st-century aerial photographs show the site as unchanged from the 1992 OS map. By 2008 the more recent structure, first shown on the 1959 map, appears to have no roof. By 2015 both buildings on the site appear to have been cleared, although the images are blurred and somewhat unclear. No previously unrecorded heritage assets on the site can be identified within Lidar imagery. Photograph references: Google Earth Images 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2015. Lidar data tile SE5605 DTM 1m. MAL/60427 81661 21-Jun-1960
Statutory Designations Reference Name Designation/ Site? Buffer? ID Grade 1286878 Bentley pinfold II Y
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 01272/01 Neolithic Polished Neolithic polished flint axe. Y Flint Axe, Bentley / Arksey
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY5027 Minden Court / Moat Hills Court, Bentley, Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y Y Doncaster HSY4971 Tennyson Road, Bentley New Village, Terraced Housing Y Doncaster HSY4973 Geometric Section, Bentley New Village, Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y Doncaster HSY4978 Edward Street Allotments, Bentley New Allotments Y Village, Doncaster HSY5026 Truman Street, Bentley Old Village, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y HSY5028 Bentley Park (historic settlement area), Public Park Y Doncaster HSY5029 Park Road, Bentley, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y HSY5030 Westerngales Way, Bentley, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y HSY5031 New Street, Bentley Old Village, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y
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HSY5032 High Street, Bentley Old Village, Doncaster Commercial Core-Suburban Y HSY5033 New Street infill housing, Bentley Old Village, Private Housing Estate Y Doncaster HSY5034 Beech Grove / Poplar Terrace, Bentley, Terraced Housing Y Doncaster HSY5035 High Street (north end), Chapel Street and Commercial Core-Urban Y Millgate, Doncaster HSY5036 Cooke Street School, Bentley, Doncaster School Y HSY5037 Bentley Miners Welfare Park, Doncaster Public Park Y HSY5038 The Homestead, Bentley, Doncaster Semi-Detached Housing Y HSY5039 Askern Road, Bentley. Semi-Detached Housing Y HSY5041 Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Catholic Primary School Y School, Bentley, Doncaster HSY5042 Finkle Street / Arksey Lane, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y HSY5150 Old Hall Road, Bentley, Doncaster Semi-Detached Housing Y
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Allocation Reference: 702 Area (Ha): 0.21 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 6709 0033 Site Name: 1-9 Briars Fold, Mosham Rd, Blaxton Settlement: Blaxton
Allocation Recommendations
Archaeological significance of site Negligible Historic landscape significance Uncertain Suitability of site for allocation No archaeological constraint
Summary Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event 1 records/1 event 2 records/2 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest Yes No Estimated sub-surface disturbance Extensive n/a
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Allocation Reference: 702 Area (Ha): 0.21 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 6709 0033 Site Name: 1-9 Briars Fold, Mosham Rd, Blaxton Settlement: Blaxton
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR records one monument and one event within the site, both relating to archaeological investigations to the rear of the Manor House in 2008, prior to redevelopment, which recorded a series of pits, one containing medieval to 16th-century pottery sherds and several containing bones probably associated with the burial of farm animals. One further event and two monuments are recorded within the buffer. This included the remains of truncated ridge and furrow earthworks found during development on a plot of land to the west of the site, and evidence for Roman pottery production at the western edge of the buffer. Archaeological investigations were undertaken along a pipeline route that runs through the north part of the buffer; these recorded remains associated with Iron Age to Roman dispersed settlement and field systems at several sites along the route, though not necessarily within the buffer. No Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings are located within the site or buffer zone. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project did not record any features within the site. An area of sand and gravel extraction was recorded at the western edge of the buffer. Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as vernacular cottages within the historic core of Blaxton, with many of the buildings dating to the early 19th-century, possibly set within medieval property boundaries. The plan form of the village is suggestive of a medieval origin. Other character zones within the buffer include modern housing, agglomerated fields and late 18th-century Parliamentary Enclosure from common land. The site has recently been developed with housing. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The 1854 map shows the site as two plots of land between Mosham Road and Back Lane, with a building on the street frontage and probable outbuildings to the rear along the west, centre and south sides of the site. By 1892, these were shown as two T-shaped ranges of outbuildings with a possible farm towards the north end of the plot, labelled Manor Farm in 1964. By 1985, a new building was shown along the eastern side of the site, and in the southwest corner, linking the T-shaped ranges of outbuildings. Within the buffer, the 1854 map shows a small number of buildings along Mosham Road and Back Lane, forming the core of Blaxton. This included a Wesleyan Methodist Chapel to the northwest of the site. This was surrounded by fields, those to the south and east characteristic of Parliamentary Enclosure from open field and common, with more irregular fields to the north. The 1892 showed the area to the north of the village as part of ornamental parkland. A few buildings had been constructed to the south of Back Lane by 1964. In 1985, further development south of Back Lane included a depot, with new houses and a telephone exchange shown to the north of Mosham Road. Runway approach lights associated with Finningley Airport were shown along a track in the western part of the buffer. Survival: The site has been redeveloped between 2009 and 2015, with archaeological mitigation undertaken. No further archaeological remains are likely to survive within the site. Further investigations: No further archaeological investigations are likely to be required if further development is undertaken within the site. Significance: Negligible.
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Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: The 2002 aerial photograph showed a house in the central northern part of the site, set back from the street frontage, with a range of pantile-roofed outbuildings along the west side and a tall brick building along the south side with a hipped pantile roof. A large modern building with a corrugated roof was shown in the southwest corner, and the eastern part of the site was tarmac-surfaced and used for parking. By 2005, the roof of the tall building had been removed, and by 2008, the southern part of the site had been cleared of buildings, with structures still shown at the north and northeast sides of the site. By 2015, the site was shown as redeveloped with housing. Lidar data shows uneven ground within the site, but no features of archaeological origin. Photograph references: Google Earth coverage 2002, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2009 & 2015. Lidar data file SE6700. RAF/CPE/UK/1880 2118 06-Dec-1946.
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 03474/01 Unclassified An empty plot of land with traces of some former structure on Y Earthworks at the site. A watching brief on foundation trenches within this Blaxton. recorded evidence for truncated ridge and furrow earthworks, which had been levelled in the modern period. 04930 The Doncaster A series of potteries have been recorded and excavated in the Y Roman Pottery Doncaster district over several decades. The potteries may be Production Area considered a single industrial entity that stretches across several kilometres to the east of Doncaster. To date, sites have been recorded in the parishes of Cantley, Rossington, Blaxton, Auckley and Doncaster. 05651 Medieval pits, Trial trenching in 2007/8, to investigate evidence for medieval Y Mosham Road, burgage plots, found no direct evidence for these, but Blaxton recorded a number of pits. One large pit contained sherds of medieval to early post-medieval pottery, with dates ranging from the 13th/14th to later 15th/16th centuries. A series of pits containing animal bone was also found, probably representing burial of former farm animals. ESY908 Archaeological Excavations at two sites along the route of the pipeline Y Monitoring and revealed ditches and trackways corresponding to recorded Trial Trenching at cropmarks of Iron Age to Romano-British period field systems. Doncaster Water Excavation of a third site at Kilham Farm close to the site of Pipeline, South Romano British pottery kilns also revealed a number of ditches Yorkshire indicative of such field systems. The ditches excavated formed part of a locally, if not regionally important complex of cropmarks in the area to the east of Doncaster. The excavations have served to confirm the presence of ditches and trackways forming field system identified from such cropmarks, as well as identifying features not visible on aerial photographs. Despite an almost complete absence of artefactual and environmental evidence from the features, excavations have provided an insight into the use and re-use of Iron Age and Romano-British field system in the region. ESY1469 Trial trenching on Four trenches were excavated at Manor Farm, Blaxton, Y Y land adjacent to Doncaster. A series of pits containing animal bone may relate Mosham Road, to medieval farming activity. A large pit containing Blaxton, Doncaster medieval/early post-medieval pottery was also identified.
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SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY5964 Blaxton historic core, Blaxton, Doncaster Vernacular Cottages Y Y HSY4531 Finningley, Auckley & Blaxton Commons, Surveyed Enclosure Y Doncaster (Parliamentary/ Private) HSY4786 Mosham Road, Blaxton, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y HSY4789 Park Lane, Blaxton, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y HSY4791 Poors Land, Blaxton, Doncaster Piecemeal Enclosure Y HSY5963 Late twentieth century housing, north of Villas/ Detached Housing Y Mosham Road, Blaxton, Finningley, Doncaster HSY5965 New housing south of Blaxton, Doncaster Villas/ Detached Housing Y
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Allocation Reference: 703 Area (Ha): 0.245 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 6923 1432 Site Name: Land Adjacent to 73 South End, Thorne Settlement: Thorne Moorends
Allocation Recommendations
Archaeological significance of site Unknown Historic landscape significance Negligible Suitability of site for allocation Uncertain archaeological constraint
Summary Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event - - Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest No No Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a
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Allocation Reference: 703 Area (Ha): 0.245 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 6923 1432 Site Name: Land Adjacent to 73 South End, Thorne Settlement: Thorne Moorends
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR does not record any monuments, findspots or events within the site or buffer zone. No Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings are recorded within the site or the buffer zone. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project recorded post- medieval ridge and furrow at the southwest edge of the buffer zone. The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as drained wetland to the east, and modern private housing to the west. The eastern half of the site had been enclosed and probably in agricultural use by 1639. This is an area which appears to relate closely to the landscape depicted on the 1639 Arlebot map following the drainage works of Vermuyden. There is no legibility of the earlier Hatfield Chase hunting park. The western area of the site was previously subject to piecemeal enclosure prior to the construction of the modern housing estate, and there is no legibility of former landscape forms. The current landscape character within the buffer zone comprises a variety of modern housing, with no legibility of the earlier surveyed enclosure of open fields. To the immediate northwest of the site is the South End characterisation area, which is located to the south of the main historic core area of Thorne. The majority of plots within this area are probably of post-medieval origin and the area was urbanised and enclosed in advance of the 1825 enclosure. The area is likely to contain significant elements of historic form and character dating to the early 19th century or earlier despite a certain amount of 20th-century infilling. It is also highly probable that there is also significant legibility of earlier forms. The site is located immediately to the south of the Thorne South Station, which opened in 1864. The South Yorkshire Railway itself opened in 1859. The northern site boundary is marked with mature trees, and the southern boundary is denoted by the property boundaries of houses on South End and The Croft. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The 1853 OS map shows the site as part of a single field, labelled Wike Well End. By 1892, a field boundary at the northern edge of the site had been added, possibly to mark a boundary from the railway line to the north. The site remained unchanged until 1962, when an arrangement of irregular field boundaries were inserted at the western end of the site; the purpose of these is unclear, although it may be associated with the new housing developments that were being constructed immediately to the west and south of the site. By 1976, most of the irregular boundaries in the western end of the site had been removed, leaving a single one, which forms part of the current western boundary of the site. The site remained much the same until the present day. The northern, southern and eastern site boundaries have been established sometime between 1990 and 2002. In 1853, the main line of the South Yorkshire Railway was present immediately to the north of the site, and a single railway track was present to the south. The single track is also labelled as the South Yorkshire Railway line, and terminated at a weighing machine. By 1932, a crane was present next to the main railway line, immediately to the north of the site.. These features remained extant in 1962 but had gone by 1976. By 1892, to the south and west of the site, Wike End Road (latterly renamed to South End by 1962) was becoming populated with housing, as was the area to the north-west of the site, with a number of new structures off Ellison Steet, which gradually continued and was heavily populated with houses by 1974. By 1932, a house was present immediately to the west of the site boundary, marked on subsequent maps as Plas Coch (Red House). By 1989, South End was becoming increasingly populated with housing. The Croft was constructed sometime after this, with new housing, immediately to the south and east of the site. Survival: No deep ground disturbance is recorded on cartographic sources, though some disturbance may have been caused by the construction of the railway line to the north. The potential for the survival of any previously
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unrecorded buried archaeology is considered to be moderate to low. Further investigations: Further archaeological investigation may be required if this site is brought forward for development. Significance: Unknown.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: Twenty-first century aerial photographs show the site as an area of rough grassland or scrub. There is no Lidar coverage for this area. Photograph references: Google Earth coverage, 2002, 2008 & 2009. RAF/541/31 3425 18-May-1948.
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY4440 Hatfield Chase - High and Low Levels, Drained Wetland Y Y Doncaster HSY5633 South End, Thorne, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y Y HSY4677 South Common Estate, Thorne, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y HSY4678 Thorne South Field Estate, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y HSY5634 Marina, South End, Thorne, Doncaster Canal or River Wharf Y HSY5636 South End, Thorne, Doncaster Vernacular Cottages Y HSY5637 West Street / Park Crescent infill, Thorne, Private Housing Estate Y Doncaster
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Allocation Reference: 704 Area (Ha): 0.23 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 4637 0016 Site Name: Land Adjacent to 166 Wath Road Settlement: Mexborough
Allocation Recommendations
Archaeological significance of site Unknown Historic landscape significance Negligible Suitability of site for allocation Uncertain archaeological constraint
Summary Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event - - Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest No Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a
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Allocation Reference: 704 Area (Ha): 0.23 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 4637 0016 Site Name: Land Adjacent to 166 Wath Road Settlement: Mexborough
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR does not record any findspots, monuments or events within the site or the buffer zone. No Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings are recorded within the site or the buffer zone. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project did not record any features within the site. Twentieth-century air raid shelters were recorded in the buffer. The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as Religious (Worship), with the site being a grassed plot adjacent to the Brunswick Methodist Chapel and Sunday School. Character zones within the buffer are defined as Allotments, Strip Fields, Regenerated Scrubland, Planned Estate (Social Housing), Other Industry, Playing Fields/Recreation Ground and Civil and Municipal Buildings. The site is currently in use as a plot of greenspace and a car park to the rear of buildings fronting onto Wath Road. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The 1854 map showed the site as part of a field bounded on the south by Wath Road and on the north by a curving boundary labelled ‘Roman Ridge supposed Roman road’. This was depicted as a parish or ward boundary. By 1892 the main site boundaries had been established, with a Methodist Chapel built to the immediate east and a large house called Rockleigh to the immediate west, which had small outbuildings and gardens to the rear, within the area covered by the site. The Roman Ridge boundary to the north was shown as an earthwork at that date. By 1930, the outbuildings to the rear of Rockleigh had been extended, and a greenhouse was shown in the field, the latter removed by 1957. The 1930 map also showed the Roman Ridge as an earthwork, now labelled ‘Roman Rig dyke’ rather than road. The only surviving earthwork section was located to the east of the site by that date. By 1957, Rockleigh had been renamed Bhatia, and the buildings to the rear were shown as a surgery. No further changes were shown within the site on the 1989 Ordnance Survey map. Various features were marked within the buffer zone on the 1854 OS map including the Roman Ridge earthwork, which ran along the north boundary of the site, shown as a supposed Roman road at that date, but altered to a dyke by 1957. Wath Road, Queen Street, Woodfield Cottage, Woodfield Bridge and the South Yorkshire Railway were also shown within the buffer at that date. The Brunswick Methodist Chapel had been built immediately to the east of the site by 1892. Housing, including Roman Terrace, an old brick kiln, the Plant Hotel and a school were also marked on the 1892 OS. Allotments, a Sunday School and further housing were shown in 1930. Part of the Roman Ridge had been destroyed by that date. Extensive housing development had taken place within the buffer by 1957. A printing works, a doctors’ surgery and a school were also shown at that date, with further housing by 1967. Some of the latter development occupied the site of earlier housing that had been demolished. The surviving earthwork section of the Roman Ridge had been removed and built over by 1981. No substantive changes were shown within the buffer zone on the 1989 OS map. Survival: The main part of the site has been undeveloped since at least 1854, apart from the creation of a car park between 2003 and 2008. The northwest part of the site was used as gardens until it was also surfaced for car parking by 2003. Buildings behind Rockleigh/Bhatia from the first half of the 20th-century were shown as outbuildings and later a surgery, and are unlikely to have had deep foundations. The potential for buried archaeological remains is considered to be moderate. The Roman Ridge earthwork formerly ran along the northern boundary of the site, and it is possible that associated sub-surface remains may survive in this area. This was also a parish or ward boundary, though it currently appears to be marked by a modern wall. The Roman Ridge is part of a linear bank and ditch that ran to the north of and roughly parallel with the River Don, from northeast Sheffield to Mexborough. Its date and function are unknown, though it is likely to have been constructed sometime between the Iron Age and early
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medieval periods, and may be a boundary marker. Most surviving earthwork sections of this feature are Scheduled Monuments. Further investigations: Further archaeological investigation is likely to be required if the site is brought forward for development. Significance: Unknown. Remains associated with the Roman Ridge earthwork could be of Local to National archaeological significance depending on their nature, extent and condition.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: Aerial photographs taken in 2002 and 2003 show the site as a plot of rough grass. A car park had been constructed on the site by 2008, leaving only two areas as grass. These areas were heavily overgrown scrub by 2009. There is no lidar data for this site. Photograph references: Google Earth: 2002, 2003, 2008 and 2009. Bing Maps: 2015.
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY5184 Brunswick Methodist Church, Mexborough, Religious (Worship) Y Y Doncaster HSY3910 Low Broom Bridge allotments, Swinton, Allotments Y Rotherham HSY3911 Relict enclosures Strip Fields Y HSY4123 Ex Wath Junction, Manvers, Rotherham Regenerated Scrubland Y HSY5177 Roman Terrace, Mexborough, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y HSY5181 Maple Leaf Court and 'The Plant Hotel', Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y Mexborough, Doncaster HSY5183 Whitelea Grove Trading Estate, Mexborough, Other Industry Y Doncaster HSY5205 Highwoods Estate, Mexborough, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y HSY5218 Playing Fields, Highwoods, Mexborough Playing Fields/ Recreation ground Y HSY5219 Newark Road Recreation Ground, Playing Fields/ Recreation ground Y Mexborough, Doncaster HSY5220 Fire Station and Nursing Homes, Highwoods Civil & Municipal Buildings Y Estate, Mexborough, Doncaster
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Allocation Reference: 705 Area (Ha): 0.22 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 6211 0519 Site Name: Land to the Rear of Markham Avenue Settlement: Armthorpe
Allocation Recommendations
Archaeological significance of site Negligible Historic landscape significance Negligible Suitability of site for allocation No archaeological constraint
Summary Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event - 1 record/1 event Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest No Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Extensive n/a
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Allocation Reference: 705 Area (Ha): 0.22 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 6211 0519 Site Name: Land to the Rear of Markham Avenue Settlement: Armthorpe
Site assessment Known assets/character: SMR records show one monument and one event within the buffer. The likely extent of the medieval village of Armthorpe is located in the south of the buffer. Archaeological evaluation at Mere Lane in the southeast part of the buffer revealed medieval pits, posthole and land surface in addition to post medieval structures. No Scheduled Monuments or Listed Buildings are recorded within the site or the buffer. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project recorded two banks relating to a 20th-century Air Raid Shelter within the eastern edge of the buffer. The Historic Landscape Characterisation records the character of the site and part of the buffer as the Planned Social Housing Estate at Mansfield Crescent, built to a geometric design to house colliery workers at the nearby Markham Main. The colliery began production in 1924 and the housing is probably contemporary with this date. There is no legibility of the former strip fields resulting from consolidation of the furlongs of the open field over time. The eastern side of the buffer is a primary school and extensive recreational and sporting facilities, probably contemporary with the surrounding housing. The southeast of the buffer is recorded as an area of villas/detached housing of the historic Armthorpe village, where the majority of the housing dates to the suburbanisation of Armthorpe from the early 20th century onwards. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The 1854 OS maps shows the site as part of a an area of rectangular piecemeal enclosure with Mere Cottage, Pond and Plump located to the east. The area remains largely unchanged until 1930 when the large scale housing development of Mansfield Crescent is depicted along the Markham Street frontage of the site. Mere Dyke was shown running in a northeast-southwest orientation along the eastern edge of the site. The area to the east of the houses in Markham Avenue was not depicted as separate garden plots until 1961. By 1973 Our Lady of Sorrows primary school and recreational grounds had been built to the east and no further changes were shown by 1990. Survival: The site formed gardens to the rear of houses developed in the 1930s. This may have involved some disturbance of below ground deposits. The 2015 aerial photograph shows recent development within the site which is likely to have disturbed any sub-surface archaeological deposits. Further investigations: Recent development within the site indicates that no further archaeological investigations are likely to be required if this site is brought forward for further development. Significance: Negligible.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: The 2002-2009 aerial photographs show the site to be a series of three well tended grassed strip plots and a tarmac area giving access to the strip plots from Markham Avenue. Four outbuildings/garages are located on the plots. 2015 aerial photographs, although low in quality, shows that the grass has been stripped and with what appears to be two large buildings under construction. No traces of archaeological features or anomalies are shown on LiDAR.
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Photograph references: Google Earth: 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2015, LiDAR tile SE6205 DTM 1m.
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 04937 Armthorpe A post-Conquest parish, possibly originating as an outlying Y Medieval Village settlement of Wheatley. The extent of the village shown on the GIS is a 'best guess' from 19th-century mapping. ESY274 Archaeological Archaeological evaluation revealed 2 pits and a post hole of Y Evaluation at Mere medieval date as well as 4 pits, a ditch and post hole of 19th- Lane 20th century date (based on pottery evidence). The remains of a 19th century structure shown on the 1854 OS map was also identified. Further excavation revealed a possible late medieval land surface truncated by the remains of an early post-medieval structure possibly a former farmhouse constructed in the 16th or 17th century. An internal pebble floor thought to be contemporary with the building and an external cobbled surface (probably a surrounding yard) were also discovered. Pottery finds suggest use up until the 18th century.
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY5017 Mansfield Crescent, Armthorpe, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y Y HSY5014 Mere Lane, Armthorpe, Doncaster School Y HSY6002 Western area of historic Armthorpe village, Villas/ Detached Housing Y Doncaster
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Allocation Reference: 709 Area (Ha): 0.39 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SK 6617 9517 Site Name: The Manor, Thorne Road, Austerfield Settlement: Austerfield
Allocation Recommendations
Archaeological significance of site Negligible Historic landscape significance Negligible Suitability of site for allocation No archaeological constraint
Summary Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - 1 SMR record/event - 3 records/2 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence No No Cartographic features of interest No No Estimated sub-surface disturbance Extensive n/a
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Allocation Reference: 709 Area (Ha): 0.39 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SK 6617 9517 Site Name: The Manor, Thorne Road, Austerfield Settlement: Austerfield
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR does not record any monuments or events within the site. Three monuments and two events are recorded within the buffer. In 1997 and 2000 two watching briefs were carried out at Austerfield sand and gravel extraction site which lies to the west of the site. During both watching briefs, a number of Iron Age to Romano- British pits were discovered containing pottery, charcoal, bone, quern, burnt stones and tile. In the same area, an unclassified cropmark complex has been identified from aerial photographs. No Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings are located within the site. One grade II listed building, The Manor House, lies within the buffer zone to the south of the site. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project does not record any features within the site or the buffer. The Historic Landscape Characterisation records the character of the site as villas/detached housing. Further character zones within the buffer include a caravan/camping site to the north, agglomerated fields to the northwest and Austerfield Quarry to the west. The area to the south of the site comprises surveyed enclosure and vernacular cottages which make up Austerfield’s historic core. The existence of an earlier settlement in the same area can be shown by the documentary references from 1379, a number of timber framed survivals and a probable early Norman church, the latter two providing fragmentary legibility of previous historic settlement activity. Historic Landfill records show an area of landfill in the south of the buffer; Railway Cutting East of A614, Manor Farm. The site has been recently developed with housing. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The 1854 OS map shows the site as part of an area of strip fields running in an east-west alignment from the eastern edge of the A614. By 1950 two buildings had been constructed on the site. Within the buffer, the 1854 map labelled the field to the west of the A614 as ‘Town Field’. Austerfield Quarry was first depicted on the 1929 map. By 1950, two buildings had been constructed in the field to the south of the site, with two further buildings shown on the 1968 map. Survival: The site has been recently developed with housing. It is likely that any archaeological features have been damaged or destroyed. Further investigations: No further archaeological investigation is likely to be required if further development is undertaken at the site. Significance: Negligible.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: Google Earth from 2002 to 2012 shows one large building within the site, with adjacent tarmaced car parking. Current Google Street View shows that the area has been developed for new housing. No LiDAR data exists for this area.
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Photograph references: Google Earth: 2002, 2003, 20042005, 2007, 2008, 2009 & 2012.
Statutory Designations Reference Name Designation/ Site? Buffer? ID Grade 1151574 The Manor House II Y
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 01503/01 The Manor House, A post medieval timber framed building in Austerfield Y Austerfield 02480/01 Iron Age or Unclassified cropmark complex shown on aerial photographs Y Romano-British Cropmarks, Austerfield 04544/01 Iron Age Pits found Pits containing Iron Age pottery, quern, charcoal, tile Y at Austerfield Sand Extraction Site ESY295 Watching Brief on In June and July 1997 a watching brief was conducted at Y the Archaeological Austerfield sand and gravel extraction site. A number of Site Discovered in circular pits of Iron Age or Romano-British were discovered the Sand and containing bone [animal?], pottery, burnt pebbles, charcoal. Gravel Pits at Austerfield ESY296 Archaeological In July and August 2000 a watching brief was conducted at Y Watching Brief at Austerfield Quarry. This was followed by a limited sample Austerfield Quarry excavation that uncovered 2 ditches of Iron Age or Romano- British date. A single sherd of Roman grey ware was recovered.
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY5592 20th century expansion north of Austerfield, Villas/ Detached Housing Y Y Doncaster HSY4474 Low Common, Austerfield, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y HSY4495 Austerfield, Quarry, Austerfield, Doncaster Other Mineral Extraction & Y Processing HSY4515 High Field Lane, Austerfield, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y HSY4523 High Field Lane, Austerfield, Doncaster Caravan/ Camping site Y HSY4528 Low Common (south), Austerfield, Doncaster Surveyed Enclosure Y (Parliamentary/ Private) HSY5589 Austerfield, Historic Core, Doncaster Vernacular Cottages Y HSY5593 Former Low Common, Bawtry, Doncaster Surveyed Enclosure Y (Parliamentary/ Private)
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Allocation Reference: 711 Area (Ha): 0.87 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 6912 1449 Site Name: Land Off Willow Grove, Thorne Settlement: Thorne Moorends
Allocation Recommendations
Archaeological significance of site Negligible Historic landscape significance Negligible Suitability of site for allocation No archaeological constraint
Summary Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event - - Cropmark/Lidar evidence No No Cartographic features of interest No No Estimated sub-surface disturbance Extensive n/a
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Allocation Reference: 711 Area (Ha): 0.87 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 6912 1449 Site Name: Land Off Willow Grove, Thorne Settlement: Thorne Moorends
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR does not record any monuments, findspots or events within the site or buffer zone. No listed buildings or Scheduled Monuments are located within the site or buffer zone. The Magnesian Limestone Aerial Photographic Mapping Project does not record any features within the site or buffer zone. The Historic Environment Characterisation records the character of the site as Planned Estate (Social Housing), part of the ‘Tree Estate’ constructed c.1970 in a geometric layout, with fragmentary legibility of former Parliamentary Enclosure fields preserved in the exterior boundaries of the estate. Character zones within the buffer include drained wetland enclosed in the 17th and 19th centuries, with partial legibility of the enclosure landscape, further modern housing estates and a modern industrial estate which began life as an electronics works in the 1960s. The site was a part of a 1970s housing estate until the mid-2000s, when the buildings were cleared. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The 1853 map depicted the site as part of fields enclosed from North Common. The northern boundary of the site was marked by a lane running into the fields from Marshland Road. The site remained largely unchanged until housing associated with the Tree Estate was constructed between 1966 and 1971. This comprised blocks of four conjoined houses set at right angles to Willow Grove Road, with access drives in between paired groups of housing and gardens to the rear. This layout remained unchanged in 1987. Within the buffer, the 1853 map showed regular fields enclosed from commons. Several roads were shown but no buildings were located within the buffer. By 1932 small areas of housing had been built extending into the northeast edge of the buffer, with part of the Tree Estate under construction to the south of the site by 1950, with development extending up to the southwest edge of the site by 1956. The Frontier Works was shown on the 1962 map to the southeast of the site. Further housing had been built by 1971, with no significant changes by 1987. Survival: The construction and demolition of housing and insertion of associated services is likely to have disturbed any buried deposits within the site. The potential for the survival of significant archaeological remains is considered to be low. Further investigations: No further archaeological investigation is likely to be required if the site is brought forward for development. Significance: Negligible.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: The 2002 aerial imagery shows the 1970s housing still extant to the northwest of Maple Road and to either side of Willow Road, with an area of rough grass to the southeast of Maple Road on the site of former buildings depicted in 1971. All the houses had been demolished by 2008, and the site was shown as rough grassland, with the street pattern still extant. There is no Lidar coverage for this site.
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SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY4654 'Tree Estate (Northern Section), Thorne, Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y Y Doncaster HSY4395 Thorne Cables (Agglomerated section), Drained Wetland Y Thorne, Doncaster HSY4416 North Common, Thorne, Doncaster Drained Wetland Y HSY4652 'Tree Estate' (southern section), Thorne Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y Doncaster HSY4667 1970s estates to the south of Moorends Private Housing Estate Y village, Doncaster HSY4670 Frontier Works, Thorne, Doncaster Other Industry Y HSY5647 Coulman Street. Thorne, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y
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Allocation Reference: 712 Area (Ha): 0.12 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 5839 0413 Site Name: 12 Avenue Road, Wheatley Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area
Allocation Recommendations
Archaeological significance of site Negligible Historic landscape significance Uncertain Suitability of site for allocation No archaeological constraint
Summary Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event - 2 records Cropmark/Lidar evidence No No Cartographic features of interest No No Estimated sub-surface disturbance Extensive n/a
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Allocation Reference: 712 Area (Ha): 0.12 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 5839 0413 Site Name: 12 Avenue Road, Wheatley Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area
Site assessment Known assets/character: There are no SMR records for the site itself. Two findspots are recorded within the buffer zone; however, both of these have limited location information and may not have been found within the buffer. They comprise a Roman coin hoard of at least 30 denarii, and the findspot of a single Roman coin. There are no Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings within the site or the buffer zone. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project does not record any features within the site or the buffer zone. The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and the south-eastern end of the buffer zone as residential, comprising detached and semi-detached villas with large gardens. The earliest housing development in this area was along Avenue Road, depicted on the 1894 OS map, with other villas in the character area mostly constructed by 1930. The site is within Doncaster Thorne Road conservation area. There is no legibility of the former character of strip fields consolidated over time from the furlongs of open fields. The remainder of the buffer zone is characterised as terraced housing, constructed in the late 19th and early 20th century in a tightly packed grid-iron plan. The site is currently occupied by a large structure, H-shaped in plan, fronting onto Avenue Road. Recent Google Street View images from 2014 show a sign outside the structure advertising one-bedroom apartments. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: On the 1851 map. the site was located within a strip field. By 1894 Avenue Road had been constructed and a structure was present within the site. Avenue Road was one of the first roads in the area, and somewhat isolated on the 1894 map. Property numbers were not shown on the map, but from the property boundaries the structures appeared to be a detached house. Other structures on the road comprised a mix of detached and semi-detached properties. The site remained unchanged on the 1992 map. Within the buffer zone, the area mostly comprised strip fields in 1851. Thorne Road was extant to the south of the site, with Morley Road to the north, at this time named Captain Lane. By 1894, Avenue Road had been constructed, with houses present on its eastern side only, and the area immediately surrounding it remained undeveloped. Avenue Road was established largely with respect to the former strip field boundaries, as were the later roads within the area. To the southwest, St Mary’s Road had been constructed, with some properties present along it. Property boundaries had also been established on Beckett Road, to the north of the site, although no structures were present. By 1904, houses had been built on the western side of Avenue Road, and Auckland Street was established to the southwest of the site. Structures had been built along Beckett Road, and many new roads and houses had been established further to the northwest. The area to the north and east of the site largely remained fields at this time, but by 1930 had been heavily developed, and the entirety of the buffer zone contained housing, which was noticeably more dense to the northwest. Survival: A detached property had been built upon the site by 1893, with a large extension added to the rear sometime between 1992 and 2002. This construction activity is likely to have truncated any earlier below-ground remains on the site, and as such, the potential for the survival of unrecorded buried archaeological remains within the site is considered to be low. The street-front building is a house of late 19th-century date, and is considered to be of positive heritage value within the conservation area. Further investigations: Further archaeological investigation is unlikely to be required if the site is brought forward for development; however, an assessment of the heritage value of the street-front property may be necessary.
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Significance: It is considered that the likely significance of any buried archaeological remains is Negligible, due to sub-surface disturbance; however, the street-front building is likely to be considered of Local heritage value.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: Twenty-first century aerial photographs show an H-shaped building on the site, indicating that a rear extension had been added to the property sometime since 1992. A small grassed back garden exists to the rear of the house, and a wide driveway to the front. No Lidar data is available for the site. The street-front building is of late 19th-century date. Photograph references: Google Earth images 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2015. Google Street View images 2014.
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 01788/01 Roman coin hoard, Roman coin hoard - hoard of denarii found at unknown date Y Doncaster "at Rutland House, Town Fields (north side)". 30 denarii in Doncaster Museum, but original size of hoard unknown. Latest coin is of Julia Domna. 01824/01 Roman Coin found Roman coin - as of Marcus Aurelius from Wheatley Hall Road Y at Wheatley Hall (recovered from tip). Road, Doncaster
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY5197 Thorne Road, Doncaster Villas/ Detached Housing Y Y HSY5196 Highfield Road, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y HSY5199 St. Marys Church, Beckett Road, Doncaster Religious (Worship) Y HSY5216 Old School House, Beckett Road, Doncaster School Y HSY5230 St. Andrew's, Beckett Road, Doncaster Religious (Worship) Y
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Allocation Reference: 714 Area (Ha): 0.14 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 5613 1359 Site Name: The Manor House, High St, Askern Settlement: Askern
Allocation Recommendations
Archaeological significance of site Local Historic landscape significance Uncertain Suitability of site for allocation Uncertain archaeological constraint
Summary Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event - 1 event Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest Yes Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Partial n/a
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Allocation Reference: 714 Area (Ha): 0.14 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 5613 1359 Site Name: The Manor House, High St, Askern Settlement: Askern
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR does not record any monuments or events within the site. One event is recorded within the buffer: trial trench evaluations off Market Place to the immediate north of the site, where no remains of archaeological interest were found. No Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings are recorded within the site or buffer. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project did not record any features within the site. In the western part of the buffer, the site of Askern Main Colliery and spoil heaps was recorded. Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and much of the buffer as part of the urban commercial core of Askern, which defines the likely extent of the medieval settlement, though most of the current buildings date to the 20th-century redevelopment associated with the colliery. The settlement was briefly a spa town in the late 18th to early 19th century. Further character zones within the buffer include the site of Askern Main Colliery to the west, sunk in 1911 and demolished by 2003; an industrial area to the south, with the principal complex being a sawmill; Askern Lake public park to the southeast, probably a naturally waterlogged area perhaps landscaped during the spa town phase; St Peter's Church to the northeast; Norton Common at the northeast edge, and late 19th-century villas and townhouses at the eastern edge. The site is a reverse T-shaped plot to the west of High Street and south of Swan Court, with a three-storey building on the High Street frontage and an enclosed yard behind, and scrub vegetation in the area to the west. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The 1854 map shows a building at the eastern side of the site, fronting onto High Street, and a linear range of buildings across the northern side, possibly outbuildings associated with the Swan Hotel. The remainder of the site was a yard or field at that date. A pump was shown within the yard area. In 1893, the house on the street frontage was labelled 'Manor House', and the area to the west was part of a garden or orchard, with a narrow yard area to the north, behind the outbuildings along the northern edge. By 1948, the outbuildings along the northern edge of the site were no longer shown, and by 1961 the current layout of the site was shown, with the addition of outbuildings to the rear of Manor House, one of which had been demolished by 1975, when the house was labelled 'surgery'. Within the buffer, the 1854 map showed the Swan Hotel to the north of the site, and the White Hart Inn and Old Hotel to the south. The buildings were towards the northern end of the historic core of Askern, with the junction between four roads shown outside the Swan Hotel, possibly a market place. Askern Lake was shown to the southeast, and numerous spa baths around the lake. A Wesleyan Methodist chapel and several summer houses were shown to the west of the site. The 1892 map showed gardens associated with the Swan Hotel to the west of the site, and a seminary to the southwest. St Peter's Church had been built to the northeast, and the Wesleyan chapel was no longer shown. The seminary had become a 'spa hydropathic establishment' by 1906. By 1932, this was labelled 'miners' welfare institute', and further housing had been built within the eastern part of the buffer. Askern Main Colliery had been constructed to the west of the buffer, with extensive railway sidings running south from the colliery. No spa baths were depicted within the buffer by 1961, when a bank and bakery were shown to the immediate northeast of the site. A water tower had been built in the western part of the buffer by 1975. Survival: The house at the eastern side of the site is of probable mid-19th-century date, and appears to be a substantial former residence associated with the spa town period of Askern’s history. The house is likely to have truncated any earlier archaeological remains within its footprint. Outbuildings were formerly shown along the northern edge of the site, and remains of these, possibly stables associated with the Swan Hotel to the north, may be preserved within the wall along the site boundary. Within the western part of the site, the potential for the
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survival of unrecorded buried archaeology is considered to be moderate. The site is likely to have been within the medieval core of the village and remains associated with this period could be located within the site, though no archaeological remains were found during evaluation to the immediate north and west. Further investigations: Further archaeological investigations are likely to be required if the site is brought forward for development. Significance: The standing building within the site is not listed, but is of probable 19th-century date and is of Local heritage significance. The significance of any buried remains within the site is currently unknown.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: The 2002 aerial photograph shows the western part of the site as a mixture of grass in the centre and shrubs and trees along the southern side, with a tall wall around the edges of the site. The eastern part of the site was occupied by the former 'Manor House, with a walled yard to the rear, , and an outbuilding along the southern side. The Swan Hotel was shown to the north, but by 2008, the hotel had been demolished and housing at Swan Court built over its site and that of its gardens, to the north and west of the site. By that date, the site was shown as rough grass and scrub, to the rear of the Manor House. The 2015 image is poor, but the site appears to be largely unchanged, possibly with fewer shrubs and trees. Street View shows the Manor House as a three storey building, three bays wide, with bay windows at the ground floor level. The windows above have segmented lintels in a 19th-century style. The site appears to slope downwards from west to east. The northern edge of the site is shown as a mixed brick and stone wall, part of which (possibly just outside the site) contains three blocked windows with arched heads, indicating that features associated with the former outbuildings may be preserved within the wall. Photograph references: Google Earth coverage 2002, 2008, 2009 & 2015. Street View 2015. SE5513/2 CCX 14249/6 16-Sep-1992.
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID ESY499 Archaeological In January 2006 a programme of trial trenching was Y Evaluation on land undertaken on land near Market Place. No archaeological off Market Place remains were revealed.
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY354 Askern Town Centre Commercial Core-Urban Y Y HSY330 Norton Common Drained Wetland Y HSY331 Askern Main Colliery site Deep Shaft Coal Mine Y HSY355 St Peter's Church and vicarage, Askern Religious (Worship) Y HSY364 Askern Mather / Sawmill Other Industry Y HSY365 Askern Lake Public Park Y HSY368 Late 19th century villas and townhouses in Villas/ Detached Housing Y Askern.
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Allocation Reference: 717 Area (Ha): 0.14 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 6971 1547 Site Name: Moorends Library, The Circle Settlement: Thorne Moorends
Allocation Recommendations
Archaeological significance of site Negligible Historic landscape significance Negligible Suitability of site for allocation No archaeological constraint
Summary Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event - - Cropmark/Lidar evidence No No Cartographic features of interest No No Estimated sub-surface disturbance Extensive n/a
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Allocation Reference: 717 Area (Ha): 0.14 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 6971 1547 Site Name: Moorends Library, The Circle Settlement: Thorne Moorends
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR records no monuments or events within the site or buffer zone. There are no listed buildings or Scheduled Monuments within the site or buffer zone. The Magnesian Limestone Aerial Photographic Mapping Project does not record any features within the site or buffer zone. The Historic Environment Characterisation records the landscape character within the site and most of the buffer as Planned Estate (Social Housing). This is the mining village of Moorends, laid out in the 1920s to house workers from Thorne Colliery, and is a typical example of a geometrically planned coal village. Further character areas within the buffer comprise the commercial core of Moorends and a school, both also dating to the 1920s-30s. The site is occupied by a disused late 20th-century library building of no architectural interest. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: In 1853, the site was part of a narrow strip enclosure on Pighill Moors, with Moor Drain to the west on a north south alignment. By 1892, the field had been enlarged through the removal of some boundaries. Between 1906 and 1932, the planned mining village of Moorends was constructed, and the site was shown as a vacant plot facing onto The Circle, with housing to the north and west. The library was first shown on the 1980 map. Within the buffer, the 1853 map showed narrow strip fields to the east of Moor Drain, with small square enclosures to the west. The fields had been aggregated into larger units by 1892. An unnamed farm was shown to the south of the site in 1853, with Grange Farm at the northern edge of the buffer. Between 1906 and 1932, the buffer was dominated by the planned mining village of Thorne Moorends, laid out in geometric patterns, largely unchanged by 1980. Survival: The northwest part of the site is likely to have been disturbed during the construction of the library. There is a greater potential for undisturbed ground in the southern and eastern parts of the site, though these areas may have been disturbed during the laying out of the roads, services and adjacent building plots for the Moorends village. In general, the potential for survival of buried archaeological remains is considered to be low. Further investigations: No further archaeological investigation is likely to be required if this site is brought forward for development. Significance: Negligible.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: Aerial coverage shows the northwest part of the site as occupied by a library, with grassed areas to the south and a tarmac-surfaced car park on the east side. Recent Street View imagery shows the library as disused and the site boarded up. The library is a functional late 20th-century building of no architectural interest. There is no Lidar coverage for the site. Photograph references: Google earth coverage 2002, 2008 and 2009.
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SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY4656 Moorends Village, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y Y HSY4659 Thorne Moorends School and St Wilfrith's School Y Church, Doncaster HSY4664 Moorends commercial core, Thorne Commercial Core-Suburban Y Moorends, Doncaster
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Allocation Reference: 718 Area (Ha): 0.14 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 5677 0163 Site Name: 2 Rose Avenue, Balby Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area
Allocation Recommendations
Archaeological significance of site Unknown Historic landscape significance Uncertain Suitability of site for allocation Uncertain archaeological constraint
Summary Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event - 1 record Cropmark/Lidar evidence No No Cartographic features of interest No Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Partial n/a
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Allocation Reference: 718 Area (Ha): 0.14 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 5677 0163 Site Name: 2 Rose Avenue, Balby Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR does not record any monuments or events within the site. One monument is recorded in the northern part of the buffer, a shop used as the set for the ‘Open All Hours’ television programme. No Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings are recorded within the site or the buffer zone. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project did not record any features within the site or buffer. The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as suburban commercial core, developed along Balby Road in the late 19th-century, initially as larger terraced villa-type properties and now dominated by commercial businesses. Some of the terraced properties remain. Further character zones within the buffer include further commercial core areas, schools, an area of heavy metal trades industrialised since the later 19th century, a traveller community site, a public park, a mixture of terraced and semi-detached housing, allotment gardens and regenerated scrubland. The site currently contains a detached house fronting onto Rose Avenue, with an extensive lawn area to the west. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The 1854 map showed the site as part of a field, with a footpath running through it on a northeast to southwest alignment. By 1892 it was a smaller field, probably a garden area behind new terraced housing to the north, at an angle to Carr Hill. A well was shown within the field by 1903. The house within the site was first shown on the 1937 map, with the land to the rear divided into two garden plots, with a greenhouse at the western side. This was shown as a single large garden plot by 1961, with a further building to the north of the site contained within this plot. No changes were shown on the 1992 map. Within the buffer, the 1854 OS map showed Carr Hill to the north, with occasional buildings along it, probably mainly farms, and Cross Bank to the southeast. The edge of settlement at Barnby was located in the southwest part of the buffer, and fields and nurseries were shown within the remaining area. A sand and gravel pit was shown to the north of Carr Hill. Further terraced housing, larger semi-detached houses and a Methodist chapel were shown at Carr Hill and Balby Road to the north and northwest by 1892, and the gravel pit had been infilled. By 1903, St Catherine Street had been laid out along the eastern boundary of the site, and Rose Avenue to the east was shown as laid out, though only two buildings had been built along it. Further housing had been built to the east of the site by that date. Both sides of Rose Avenue had been developed with terraced housing and streets to the southeast and southwest by 1930, and by 1961 the site was almost entirely surrounded by houses. Survival: With the exception of the footprint of the house, the site is likely to have had relatively little sub-surface disturbance. The potential for the survival of unrecorded buried archaeology is considered to be moderate. The current house is of late 1930s date, in a fairly typical style, though of note in that it is in a different style to the other buildings within the street. Further investigations: Further archaeological investigations may be required if the site is brought forward for development. Significance: Unknown. The current standing building is of only minor heritage significance.
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Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: The 2002 aerial photograph showed a similar layout to the 1992 OS map, although the large plot shown in 1992 had been subdivided into two, the southern plot containing the site. The building to the north of the site had been demolished. The area around the house was shown as lawns, with garden beds along the southern side and a shed along the western boundary in the location of the greenhouse shown in 1937. By 2008, new houses had been built to the immediate north of the site, off Carr Hill Court. Street View shows the house as a 1930s-style detached house, with a curved bay at ground and first floor level, and arched doorway with an internal porch. It is in a very different style to the earlier 20th-century terraced houses along Rose Avenue. Lidar data shows slightly uneven ground within the garden, but no features of clear archaeological interest. Photograph references: Google Earth coverage 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009 & 2015. Google Street View 2015. Lidar data tile SE5601 DTM 1m.
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 04752 "Open All Hours" Open All Hours Shop, Lister Avenue, Balby, Doncaster. Modern Y Shop, Lister television set. Avenue, Balby, Doncaster
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY5484 Balby Road, Balby, Doncaster Commercial Core-Suburban Y Y HSY4232 Balby, Loversall and Potteric Carr, Doncaster Drained Wetland Y HSY5277 Balby Carr Bank, Doncaster Metal Trades (Heavy) Y HSY5428 Sandford Road, Balby, Doncaster Allotments Y HSY5430 Lambeth Road, Balby Doncaster Romany or other Traveller Y Community site HSY5432 Sandford Road, Balby, Doncaster Regenerated Scrubland Y HSY5460 Lambeth, Road, Balby, Doncaster Allotments Y HSY5466 Balby Road, Balby, Doncaster School Y HSY5467 Burton Avenue, Balby, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y HSY5468 Lister Avenue, Balby, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y HSY5473 Westfield Park, Balby, Doncaster Public Park Y HSY5476 St John's Road, Balby, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y HSY5485 Westfield Road, Balby, Doncaster Semi-Detached Housing Y HSY5811 Balby historic core, Balby, Doncaster Commercial Core-Suburban Y
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Allocation Reference: 720 Area (Ha): 0.80 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SK 5064 9843 Site Name: Informal Land, St Andrews Rd, Conisbrough Settlement: Conisbrough
Allocation Recommendations
Archaeological significance of site Unknown Historic landscape significance Negligible Suitability of site for allocation Uncertain archaeological constraint
Summary Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event - 1 record Cropmark/Lidar evidence No No Cartographic features of interest No No Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a
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Allocation Reference: 720 Area (Ha): 0.80 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SK 5064 9843 Site Name: Informal Land, St Andrews Rd, Conisbrough Settlement: Conisbrough
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR does not record any monuments or events within the site. One findspot is recorded within the buffer, a Roman/Byzantine coin hoard dating to the 6th century AD, found in a garden to the east of the site. No Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings are located within the site or the buffer zone. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project does not record any features within the site or the buffer zone. Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and the southern part of the buffer as a mid-20th-century planned social housing estate in a geometric layout, with no legibility of former strip enclosures from medieval open field. Further character zones within the northern part of the buffer are recorded as early to mid-20th-century terraced housing, 1930s and later planned social housing estate, a 1930s and later recreation ground, and a late 20th-century school. The main part of the site is currently an area of green space between blocks of housing and gardens, accessed via St Andrews Road, with the western part being a tarmac-surfaced parking area for residents. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The 1854 OS map shows the site as part of two fields to the south of Old Road. The fairly regular boundaries of the fields is suggestive of surveyed enclosure, possibly from medieval open field. By 1892, they had been amalgamated into a single larger field. Development was occurring to the south and east of the site by 1930, but it remained vacant at that date. By 1956, the site was shown in its current layout, apart from the northeast tip and western sides, which were enclosed plots, possibly gardens. The 1962 map showed the same layout with more detail, showing footpaths crossing the site in a diamond pattern between blocks of housing. By 1969, the western part of the site was shown as a parking area with access from Old Road, with garages laid out along most edges of the plot. Two small buildings, probably greenhouses, were shown within the garden plot at the northeast tip in 1975. Within the buffer, areas of more piecemeal enclosure called Hill Field (north of Old Road) and Holy Well Field (south of the site) are shown on the 1845 OS map. A track called Ellershaw Lane was shown running through the area of fields to the southwest of the site. Some small-scale housing development had occurred to the northeast by 1892, with further development in this area by 1906. By 1930, the construction of housing on a geometric street layout was underway to the east and south of the site, with Conan Road, Warren Road and Daylands Road under construction. St Andrews Road and Lewes Road had been laid out by 1938 to the north and west of the site, with development still underway in 1956 and mainly completed by 1969. Survival: There may have been some disturbance to the site in association with the construction of the nearby housing and gardens, as well as potentially the insertion of services. The levels of disturbance are likely to be low, and the potential for the survival of buried archaeological remains is considered to be moderate. Further investigations: Further archaeological investigations may be required if the site is brought forward for development. Significance: Unknown. Only one findspot has been recorded in the buffer zone, but no archaeological fieldwork has been undertaken in the vicinity so the understanding of the archaeological resource is currently poor.
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Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: The 2002-2009 aerial photographs show the main (central and eastern) part of the site as an area of grassland bounded and defined by the ends of gardens of housing surrounding the site. The boundaries appear to be hedges and fences, with some trees. Informal footpaths cross the site. The northeast tip of the site was shown in 2002 as densely wooded. The western side of the site is a parking area leading off Old Road. This has a surface of tarmac or hardcore. The 2002 photo shows rectangular features around the edge which may be former sites of garages. Between 2003 and 2008, the trees in the northeast corner had been removed and this area was shown as part of the main grassed field. The 2015 image is very unclear, but appears to show development within the western part of the field, accessed from the area of parking. There is no Lidar coverage for this site. Photograph references: Google Earth coverage 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009 & 2015. Bing maps aerial views.
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 01084/01 Roman Coin Hoard Roman (Byzantine) coin hoard - 40 Nummia of Justinian I (527- Y 565) found in the garden of 44 Daylands Avenue in March 1921.
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY5358 Mid-twentieth century social housing estates, Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y Y Conisbrough, Doncaster HSY5323 Conanby, Conisborough, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y HSY5356 Ivanhoe Road / Rowena Road / Athelstane Terraced Housing Y Road, Conisbrough, Doncaster HSY5357 Miners Welfare Recreation Ground, Playing Fields/ Recreation ground Y Conisbrough, Doncaster HSY5362 Morley Place Junior School, Conisbrough, School Y Doncaster HSY5447 Warren Road / Old Road, Conisbrough, Terraced Housing Y Doncaster
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Allocation Reference: 723 Area (Ha): 0.23 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 5672 1355 Site Name: Freeman Builders Ltd, Marlborough Rd Settlement: Askern
Allocation Recommendations
Archaeological significance of site Unknown Historic landscape significance Negligible Suitability of site for allocation Uncertain archaeological constraint
Summary Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event - - Cropmark/Lidar evidence No No Cartographic features of interest No Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a
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Allocation Reference: 723 Area (Ha): 0.23 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 5672 1355 Site Name: Freeman Builders Ltd, Marlborough Rd Settlement: Askern
Site assessment Known assets/character: There are no SMR records within the site or the buffer zone. There are no Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings within the site or the buffer zone. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project does not record any features within the site or the buffer zone. Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and some of the northern buffer zone as residential terraced housing, which is likely to have been the first housing provided for miners at Askern Colliery. There is invisible legibility of the earlier enclosure landscape. Further character types in the buffer zone include various housing types, agglomerated fields, drained wetland, a public park and a school. The site is located within the core of Askern and is surrounded by modern development. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The site is located within three narrow rectangular fields on the 1854 map. The southern and western site boundaries are extant as field boundaries at this time. By 1932 the eastern site boundary had been established with the construction of Blossom Avenue (later renamed to Marlborough Road by 1961) to the immediate east of the site. By 1961 the eastern half of the site was labelled as a builder’s yard, which by 1975 occupied the entire site. There was no change to the site on the 1986 map. In 1854 the majority of the area surrounding the site was mainly narrow rectangular fields, part of an area called Askern Common. Rushy Moor Lane was depicted to the east of the site, with Askern Common Road to the north and Mill Dike to the south. The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway was extant to the west of the site. By 1893 Highfield House had been constructed to the immediate north of the site, with further development to the northwest including a chapel, school and housing. By 1932 further housing had been built to the immediate west of the site along Highfield Road, and to the immediate east and south of the site, along Blossom Avenue. By this time substantial development had occurred in the northern end of the buffer zone, off the northern side of Moss Road (formally Askern Common Road), and to the southeast of the site, along Rushy Moor Avenue. Further housing had been developed at the eastern end of the buffer zone by 1975. By 1984 only the southern tip of the buffer zone remained undeveloped. Survival: The site was part of enclosed fields before substantial residential development occurred around the site from the early-mid 1900s. The site itself has remained undeveloped, and has been a builder’s yard from at least 1961. The extent of disturbance caused by nearby development is unclear, but in general, the potential for the survival of unrecorded buried archaeological remains is considered to be moderate. Further investigations: Further archaeological investigation may be required if the site is brought forward for development. Significance: Unknown.
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Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: Aerial photographs from 2002 show little change on the site from 1984, with the site comprising scrub wasteland partially covered with miscellaneous equipment, which may be abandoned. There was moderately heavy tree cover on the site, particularly on the southern end. By 2008 most of the trees had been cleared and some of the equipment removed. There is no available Lidar data for the site. Photograph references: Google Earth images 2002, 2008, 2009. RAF/CPE/UK/1880 4073 06-Dec-1946.
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY356 Terraced housing to the east of Askern village Terraced Housing Y Y HSY365 Askern Lake Public Park Y HSY368 Late 19th century villas and townhouses in Villas/ Detached Housing Y Askern. HSY370 1930s semi detached housing along Moss Semi-Detached Housing Y Road Askern, Doncaster HSY372 Askern Common planned estate Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y HSY4364 Land to the west of Fenwick, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y HSY4370 Former Askern Common, Askern, Doncaster Drained Wetland Y HSY5677 Sunnymede Crescent, Askern, Doncaster Semi-Detached Housing Y HSY5678 Eastfield Drive, Askern, Doncaster Semi-Detached Housing Y HSY5700 Askern Moss Road, Doncaster School Y
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Allocation Reference: 724 Area (Ha): 0.22 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 5879 0256 Site Name: Park Hotel, 232 Carr House Rd, Belle Vue Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area
Allocation Recommendations
Archaeological significance of site Negligible Historic landscape significance Uncertain Suitability of site for allocation No archaeological constraint
Summary Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - 1 SMR record/event - - Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest Yes Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Partial n/a
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Allocation Reference: 724 Area (Ha): 0.22 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 5879 0256 Site Name: Park Hotel, 232 Carr House Rd, Belle Vue Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR does not record any monuments or events within the site or buffer zone, though the possible route of a Roman road is depicted on historic mapping within the northern part of the buffer. No Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings are located within the site. One grade II listed building is located to the northeast of the site, Hamilton Lodge. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project did not record any features within the site. The only feature recorded within the buffer was the edge of a mid-20th-century airfield at the southern edge. Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and the eastern and western parts of the buffer as a planned social housing estate built to a geometric design, and first depicted in 1930. There is no legibility of the former drained wetland landscape. Further character zones within the buffer include regenerated scrubland on the site of a former tip at Potteric Carr at the southern edge, allotments, the Belle Vue stables, a school, almshouses and further 20th-century planned social housing estates. The site is currently occupied by a former hotel, with tarmac surfacing to the north and east. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The 1854 OS map shows the site as part of an area of landscape park associated with Carr House. The northern boundary was formed by Carr House Lane. The Park Hotel public house had been built within the site by 1930, with a narrow building along the eastern edge of the site, possibly stables or garages. The hotel was set within an area of gardens. The current southern and western boundaries of the site had been established by 1976, and no substantial changes within the site were shown by 1993. Within the buffer, Carr House and its pleasure grounds were located to the south of the site, with Carr House Cottage to the southeast and fields to the north. A footpath labelled as the route of a Roman Road ran through the buffer to the north of the site, on a northwest to southeast alignment. Carrhouse Lodge was shown to the east of the site in 1892, and Hamilton Lodge had been built to the northeast. Carr house was shown as a fever hospital at that date. The hospital had been extended by 1930, when the area to the west of the site was occupied by housing, mainly semi-detached houses in a geometric street layout. Carr House Road had been widened, and Hamilton Lodge had become a maternity home by that date, with Belle Vue Stables to the northeast and further housing at the eastern edge of the buffer. A sewage works was shown at the southeast edge of the buffer. By 1938, Carr House had been demolished and housing building to the north, east and south of the site. Housing was built in the former garden area to the south of the Park Hotel by 1976, and a garage was shown to the immediate west. Hamilton Lodge had become a sports club by that date. Survival: The area within the footprint of the current building is likely to have been disturbed by its construction. As a public house, the building is likely to have some cellarage and substantial foundations. The extent of disturbance within the car park area to the east and the tarmac surfaced area to the north is unclear, but these are relatively small areas. In general, the potential for the survival of significant buried archaeology within the site is considered to be low. The standing building is of early 20th-century date. Further investigations: Further archaeological investigations are unlikely to be required if the site is brought forward for development, though assessment of the heritage value of the public house may be necessary.
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Significance: Given the extent of previous disturbance, the significance of any surviving buried remains is considered to be Negligible. The public house may be considered to be of minor Local heritage interest.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: The 2002-2009 aerial photographs show a hotel building within the southwest part of the site, with tarmac surfacing to the north and east. The 2015 aerial view is too poor to make out any details of the site. Street View shows the hotel as a three storey building (including attics), with a porch featuring faux-column detailing and a balcony above. It was occupied by an Italian restaurant in 2015. Photograph references: Google Earth coverage 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009 & 2015. Lidar data tile SE5802 DTM 1m. RAF/58/1891 F21 0090 14-Oct-1955.
Statutory Designations Reference Name Designation/ Site? Buffer? ID Grade 1191871 Hamilton Lodge II Y
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY5240 Potteric Carr Road, Doncaster Regenerated Scrubland Y HSY5271 Sewage Works, Sandy Lane, Doncaster Utilities Y HSY5272 Chequer Avenue, Doncaster Allotments Y HSY5283 Lime Tree Avenue, Hyde Park, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y Y HSY5289 Thoresby Avenue, Hyde Park, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y HSY5292 Belle Vue Stables, Bennetthorpe, Doncaster Racecourse Y HSY5296 Carr House Centre, Danum Road, Doncaster School Y HSY5297 Danum Road, Bennetthorpe, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y HSY5298 William Nuttall Cottage Homes, Bennetthorpe, Nursing Home / Almshouse Y Doncaster HSY5300 Elmfield Park, Doncaster Public Park Y
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Allocation Reference: 725 Area (Ha): 0.48 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 5425 1015 Site Name: Trafalgar House, Trafalgar Street, Carcroft Settlement: Carcroft Skellow
Allocation Recommendations
Archaeological significance of site Negligible Historic landscape significance Negligible Suitability of site for allocation No archaeological constraint
Summary Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event - - Cropmark/Lidar evidence Yes Yes Cartographic features of interest No Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Extensive n/a
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Allocation Reference: 725 Area (Ha): 0.48 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 5425 1015 Site Name: Trafalgar House, Trafalgar Street, Carcroft Settlement: Carcroft Skellow
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR does not record any finsdspots, monuments or events within the site or the buffer zone. No Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings are recorded within the site or the buffer zone. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project recorded ridge and furrow remains within the site and buffer, and 20th-century air raid shelters within the buffer zone. The ridge and furrow remains were all in areas that have since been built on. The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as Low Rise Flats. There is no legibility of the former character of Piecemeal Enclosure. Character zones within the buffer are defined as Terraced Housing, Allotments, School, Planned Estate (Social Housing), Retail Park, Agglomerated Fields and Vilas/Detached Housing. The site is currently occupied by two-storey flats bounded to the north by Trafalgar Street and to the southwest by Crossdale Gardens. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The site was shown as fields on the 1851 OS map and had been sub-divided into allotments by 1932. The individual allotment plots were not shown on the 1948 OS map and the land formed part of a larger, open area by 1961. The current flats, known as Trafalgar House, had been built by 1977. No changes were shown within the site on OS maps produced up to 1984. Various features were marked within the buffer zone on the 1851 OS map including fields, field boundaries, a National School, public houses, several houses along Carcroft High Street and Pickhill Lane, Corpse Lane and a number of orchards. A smithy was shown on the north side of High Street on the 1906 OS map, with allotments, housing and a school shown in 1932. Further housing, a sewage pumping station and St. Andrew’s Church had been built by 1948. A school playing field was marked on the 1961 OS map, with housing, Uldale Walk and Croasdale Gardens shown within the buffer on the 1977 map. No substantive changes were shown within the buffer on subsequent OS maps produced up to 1984. Survival: The construction of Trafalgar House will have impacted on any archaeological remains within its footprint. While the building is unlikely to possess cellars or basements, several areas may contain subsurface rooms, such as boiler or laundry rooms. While it is possible that archaeological remains may be present in those parts of the site that lay outside the footprint of the building, these areas may have been landscaped or impacted by the construction of services. Overall, the potential for the survival of buried archaeological remains is negligible. Further investigations: Further archaeological investigation is unlikely to be required if the site is brought forward for development. Significance: Negligible.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: Twenty-first-century aerial photographs shows the site occupied by Trafalgar House. There is no Lidar data for this site.
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Photograph references: Google Earth: 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009 and 2015. Bing Maps: 2015. RAF/CPE/UK/1879 3105 06-Dec-1946; RAF/541/31 4403 18-May-1948.
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY122 Trafalgar House , Carcroft Low Rise Flats Y Y HSY94 Trafalgar Street and Park Avenue, Carcroft Terraced Housing Y HSY95 Owston Rd, Askern Road and Queens Road, Terraced Housing Y Carcroft HSY99 Owston Road Allotments, Carcroft Allotments Y HSY100 Former Allotments behind Trafalgar Street, Allotments Y Carcroft HSY102 Carcroft Primary School School Y HSY108 Carcroft 'New Village' Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y HSY111 1940's /50's terraced housing in Skellow Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y HSY113 Skellow Estate Final Phase Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y HSY115 Carcroft Town Centre Retail Park Y HSY116 Carcroft Commercial Centre / Former Carcroft Retail Park Y Common HSY121 Trafalgar Estate - Crossdale Gardens, Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y Martindale Walk. HSY123 Trafalgar Estate: North - Carcroft Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y HSY132 Fields to the West of West Farm Owston Agglomerated fields Y HSY251 High street townhouses, Carcroft Villas/ Detached Housing Y
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Allocation Reference: 728 Area (Ha): 0.94 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 5454 0213 Site Name: 29 Park Drive, Sprotbrough Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area
Allocation Recommendations
Archaeological significance of site Unknown Historic landscape significance Negligible Suitability of site for allocation Uncertain archaeological constraint
Summary Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event - 6 records/1 event Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest No Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a
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Allocation Reference: 728 Area (Ha): 0.94 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 5454 0213 Site Name: 29 Park Drive, Sprotbrough Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR does not record any findspots, monuments or events within the site. Three findspots, three monuments and one event are recorded in the buffer zone. The findspots were of two Iron Age beehive querns and two Roman coins, whilst the monuments comprise a possible barrow, ridge and furrow remains and Sprotbrough Park. An evaluation in the eastern part of the buffer did not reveal any archaeological remains. There are no Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings within the site or the buffer. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project did not record any features within the site. Levelled ridge and furrow was recorded in the buffer zone. The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as Villas/Detached Housing. This was constructed following the break-up and sale of Sprotbrough Park in the 1920s. This phase of development took place in an area of park first landscaped at the direction of Godfrey Copley in the late 17th and early 18th century. 'Park Drive' fossilises the line of one of the routes through the former parkland, although much widened on development. A number of the mature trees which are scattered throughout this area are likely to date to the 'naturalistic' planting scheme of the late 18th and early 19th centuries and, together with the drive itself and the surviving 'North Lodge', form the only remaining visible aspects of the park landscape. Character zones within the buffer are defined as Agglomerated Fields, Plantation, Private Housing Estate, Ancient Woodland and Playing Fields/Recreation Ground. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The site formed part of Sprotbrough Park at the time of the 1854 OS map. A line of trees or shrubs ran along the majority of the western part of the site at that date, while a tree-lined path crossed the southern part of the plot. While no changes were shown within the site on the 1948 OS map, the land formed parts of the large domestic gardens to the rear of no.s 29, 33 and 35 Park Drive by 1956. An outbuilding with an attached greenhouse stood to the rear of no.29 at that date. This feature was not shown on the 1980 OS map. No further changes were shown within the site at that date. Numerous features were shown within the buffer zone on the 1854 OS map, including Sprotbrough Park, fields, a shed and an old limestone quarry. Housing had been constructed within the buffer by 1956, with further housing shown on the 1966 and 1980 OS maps. Survival: The site formed part of Sprotbrough Park in 1854 and has been domestic gardens since at least 1966, with a house at the northern end. The building may have caused some disturbance to sub-surface deposits within its footprint, but the potential for unrecorded buried archaeology within the remainder of the site is considered to be moderate. Further investigations: Further archaeological investigation may be required if the site is brought forward for development. Significance: Unknown.
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Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: Twenty-first-century aerial photographs show the site as domestic gardens. Lidar data shows a small amount of ground disturbance within the site, with a path running through the southern part of the plot. While this feature follows the approximate alignment of the 19th-century path through Sprotbrough Park, it is not clear to what extent this feature is a modern construction that may have damaged the earlier route. Photograph references: Google Earth: 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009 and 2015. Bing Maps: 2015. Lidar data tile SE5402 DTM 1m.
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 01069/01 Two Iron Age 2 beehive gritstone querns in the garden of 39 Riverside Drive Y Beehive Quern 1968. topstones found at Riverside Drive, Doncaster 01078/01 Roman Coin, Domitian coin from garden of 141 Melton Road. Y Sprotbrough 02643/01 Roman Coin Find, Bronze coin probably of Domitian but very worn. Y Sprotbrough 03728/01 Sprotbrough Park Surviving features consist of old hawthorn trees (possible Y remains of hedgerows) and a ring of field maples (mature) forming sheltered areas for stock (SE 54770206). 03728/02 Medieval to Post- Pronounced ridge and furrow covering most of the area not Y Medieval Ridge and yet developed North-west to south-east orientation. Furrow, Sprotbrough 03728/03 Possible Barrow, Small, but pronounced mound within an area of ridge and Y Sprotbrough Park furrow, possibly a barrow, cut by furrow on the eastern edge giving an ovoid appearance. ESY446 Archaeological In April 2006 an archaeological field evaluation of land off Park Y Field Evaluation of Drive. No archaeological features were observed. Land off Park Drive
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY4270 Former 'Park Closes', Sprotborough, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y HSY4288 Land east of Sprotborough, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y HSY5102 Park Drive, Sprotbrough, Doncaster Villas/ Detached Housing Y Y HSY5106 Albert Plantation, Sprotbrough, Doncaster Plantation Y HSY5110 Birch Close, Sprotborough, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y HSY5112 Park Avenue / Lounde Close, Doncaster Villas/ Detached Housing Y HSY5118 Woodlands to the south of Sprotborough, Ancient Woodland Y Doncaster HSY5119 Riverside Drive, Sprotbrough, Doncaster Villas/ Detached Housing Y HSY5120 St Chad's Way, Sprotbrough, Doncaster Villas/ Detached Housing Y Y
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HSY5121 Recreation area, east of Sprotbrough, Playing Fields/ Recreation ground Y Doncaster HSY5131 Villas on and south of the site of Sprotbrough Villas/ Detached Housing Y Hall, Sprotbrough, Doncaster
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Allocation Reference: 729 Area (Ha): 0.10 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SK 5112 9876 Site Name: Land Adj. Sure Start Centre, Wellgate Settlement: Conisbrough
Allocation Recommendations
Archaeological significance of site Negligible Historic landscape significance Negligible Suitability of site for allocation No archaeological constraint
Summary Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - 1 Listed Building - 5 SMR record/event 1 event 24 records/5 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence No No Cartographic features of interest No No Estimated sub-surface disturbance Extensive n/a
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Allocation Reference: 729 Area (Ha): 0.105 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SK 5112 9876 Site Name: Land Adj. Sure Start Centre, Wellgate Settlement: Conisbrough
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR records one event within the site, which extends into the north-eastern area of the buffer zone. The event relates to archaeological trial trenching and excavation at Wellgate, which revealed archaeological remains dating from the Roman period onwards. The earliest activity comprised a substantial cut feature set with a number of wooden structures including a fence, stake alignment and track. The only dating evidence was from Roman pottery dating to the 2nd and 4th centuries AD. There was also medieval activity dating to the 11th and 12th centuries. Eleven monuments and 14 findsposts are recorded within the buffer zone; however, all of the findspots are poorly located prehistoric flint and bone artefacts and Iron Age to Roman pottery and a brooch recorded as being found at Cadeby Cliff, which is well outside the buffer and north of the River Don. To the northeast of the site, a small assemblage of 10 flints of uncertain prehistoric date were recovered during excavations at Wellgate, which also found remains of probable 6th-century activity. A medieval well (grade II listed) is also recorded in this area. A number of records relate to the medieval church of St Peter (grade I listed), to the northeast of the site, which contains early medieval sculptures, chest tombs and a burial. To the south of the site is a timber-framed building possibly of medieval date but more likely to be post-medieval. As well as the Wellgate investigations, four further events are recorded at the eastern edge of the buffer, all associated with investigations at Conisbrough Castle. One Scheduled Monument extends just into the northeast edge of the buffer zone, the medieval Conisbrough Castle. There are five listed buildings within the buffer zone, all within the eastern half. In addition to the grade I listed medieval church of St Peter and the grade II listed medieval well, mentioned above, the remaining buildings are all grade II listed and comprise the Old Hall Restaurant (early to mid-18th century), the Priory (early to mid- 19th century), and the Old Priory (c.1800). The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project does not record any features within the site or buffer zone. Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and much of the north-eastern area of the buffer as a planned estate (social housing), with fragmentary legibility of the medieval landscape of the town. The majority of the buffer contains areas characterised by a variety of housing types and associated playing fields and allotments, with very limited and fragmentary evidence of earlier landscape forms. The site comprised a single plot of scrubland in 2009, with new buildings shown within it by 2015. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The site was shown as part of two fields on the 1854 OS map. By 1892, the field boundary within the site had been removed, and the site was located within a single field. By 1930 a roughly east-west aligned building had been constructed over some of the site, which had been demolished by 1956. By 1971 a single building had been constructed over the majority of the site, numbered 8 to 14 Well Gate. The site remained unchanged on the 1994 map. The site is located at the western end of Conisbrough. By 1854, to the east of the site the core of Conisbrough was well established, with Church Lane and St Peter’s Church marked to the east of the site. To the west of the site, the surrounding area comprised mostly fields. By 1892, the street of Wellgate was marked on the map, although not to its present-day extent. The medieval well is marked to the northeast of it, and by 1902 a well/cistern as also present on Wellgate itself. By 1956, significant development had occurred to the north of the site, with the development of houses on The Oval. By 1962 further houses had been built on Elm Green Lane, to the northwest of the site, which had been developed further by 1971. Further buildings had also been built to the immediate north of the site, similar in size and shape to the building which occupied the site itself at this time. The current north-south alignment of Wellgate is not present on the 1987 map.
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Survival: The site has had at least two structures built upon it in the second half of the 20th century, the later building covering the vast majority of the plot. As such, the survival of any previously unrecorded heritage assets within the site is considered to be low. The site was covered by archaeological mitigation works at Wellgate in 2002, and it is assumed that any significant remains were recorded during these works. The site appears to have been redeveloped after 2009. Further investigations: No further archaeological investigations are likely to be required if further development proposals are submitted. Significance: Negligible.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: Twenty-first century aerial photographs show that the building first present on the 1971 OS map was still on the site in 2007. It had been removed by 2008. The 2015 aerial photographs are very poor quality, but appear to show a new building on the site. There is no available Lidar data for the site. Photograph references: Google Earth Images 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009 & 2015.
Statutory Designations Reference Name Designation/ Site? Buffer? ID Grade 1010828 Conisbrough Castle SM Y 1151531 The Old Priory Nursing Home and attached outbuilding II Y 1192787 Church of St Peter I Y 1192845 The Priory (Offices of local authority department) II Y 1314840 The Old Hall Restaurant II Y 1314842 Well cover approximately 50 metres north west of junction with II Y Church Street
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 00200/01 Medieval Town Small stone building covers well, date uncertain. (Medieval - Y Well, Conisbrough D.V.S). Still a functioning spring. 00201/01 Church of St Peter, A medieval church at Conisbrough with Anglo-Saxon origins. Y Conisbrough 00202/01 Anglo-Saxon Period Fragment of a Saxon cross in the south chapel. Ryder records Y Cross Fragment, that the fragment of pre-Conquest cross shaft dated to the Conisbrough late 10th century was then lying at the west end of the south aisle, and a fragment of what appeared to be a second cross shaft, with a roll moulding at each angle, was built into the external face of the east wall of the south aisle. 00203/01 Norman 12th Elaborate Romanesque tomb-chest, now at the east end of the Y Century Coped south aisle, dated 1140-1160. The coped lid bears a series of Tomb Chest, medallions enclosing mounted knights in combat, winged
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Conisbrough beasts and the signs of the zodiac. 01175/01 Medieval Timber Timber- Framed House (G.S. Coe & Son, Shoe Repairers), Y Framed House, Church Street, Consibrough - Remains of one truss at north Church Street end of the building. Conisbrough 01968/05 Mesolithic and Bone material and flint tools of Mesolithic and unknown date. Y Undated Finds, Including a flint microlith and awl, antler, fragments of a knife Cadeby Cliff handle (made with a metal saw) found on the surface of a ploughed field within a scooped enclosure feature. The site from air photography shows a circle-ditch broken in two places and may be a 'Henge' feature. 01969/01 Prehistoric Flint One scraper was found on the surface of a ploughed field Y Tool Finds, 1977/78 Conisbrough 01970/01 Romano-British 1 broken bronze penannular brooch found on the surface of Y Bronze Pennanular ploughed field 1977/78 Brooch, Mexborough 01971/01 Prehistoric Flint 1 knife/saw, 2 pieces of sawn antler and 1 retouched flake Y Tool and Bone found on surface of ploughed field Finds, Cadeby Cliff, Conisbrough 01974/01 Flint Tool and Bone 1 broken lance point, 1 microlith, 1 piece of knife handle, 1 Y Finds, Cadeby Cliff, scraper and 1 reworked flake were found on surface of Conisbrough ploughed field. 01975/01 Leaf Shaped 1 leaf shaped arrowhead found on surface of ploughed field Y Arrowhead Find, 1977/78 Cadeby Cliff, Mexborough 01976/01 Flint Tool Finds, 1 hollow based point/arrowhead, 1 scraper, 2 retouched flakes Y Cadeby Cliff, and 2 scrapers were found on surface of ploughed field. Conisbrough 01977/01 Flint Tools and 1 awl, 1 slug tool, 1 microlith, 1 obliq/blunted point, 2 cores, 1 Y Bone Finds, Cadeby piece of kife handle, 2 reworked flakes, 2 scrapers, 8 Cliff, Conisbrough retouched flakes and 1 knife, found on surface of ploughed field 01978/01 Iron Age or Scatter of British pottery found on surface of ploughed field Y Romano-British 1977/78; samian ware (now at Doncaster Museum), 1 sherd of Pottery Scatter, Nene Vallery Ware Sector 8 and 1 sherd of possible Iron Age Cadeby Cliff, pottery sector 7 (both of which are with Mr. A. Peace of Conisbrough Mexborough). 01979/01 Flint Tool Finds, 3 microliths, 1 knife/saw, 8 retouched flakes, 1 burnt scraper Y Cadeby Cliff, and 2 scrapers found on the surface of a ploughed field. Conisbrough 01982/01 Flint Tools, Bone 2 scrapers, 1 blade segment, 1 piece of bone knife handle, 1 Y and a Jet Knife piece of jet knife handle, 4 retouched flakes, 2 retouched Handle Find, flakes, 1 Microlith, and 1 scraper found on the surface of a Cadeby Cliff, ploughed field. Conisbrough 01983/01 Flint Tool and Bone 1 scraper, 1 antler tip, 3 scrapers and 3 retouched flakes found Y Finds, Cadeby Cliff, on surface of ploughed field. Conisbrough 01985/01 Flint Axe with 1 blade fragment from flint axe with polished blade was found Y Polished Blade on the surface of a ploughed field Find, Cadeby Cliff, Conisbrough
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01987/01 Flint Tool Finds, 1 microlith found on surface of ploughed field Y Cadeby Cliff, Conisbrough 02008/01 Relief at Sculpture depicting a figure (? a woman) wearing a long Y Conisbrough flowing robe, sitting upon a bench or sedile, within a niche. Church Built into the east wall of the porch of Conisborough Castle (internally). 02068/01 Medieval Grave Upper part of a small 12th century slan into wall on west side Y Cover, Castle Walk, of Castle Walk, south east of 'The Priory'. Conisbrough 02269/01 Pre-Norman burial, Discussing Conisbrough Church, Miller (1804) says that 'When Y Conisborough the Norman tomb was moved, digging down revealed a north- Church south burial and directly under this what was clearly an east- west cist burial with charcoal. Roman or dark-age followed by Saxon, or both Anglo-Saxon? The tomb is the 'tomb chest' and the location of these finds was the church yard at Conisbrough.' It is possible that the east-west burial is a late Anglo-Saxon charcoal burial. However, this may be a later medieval charcoal burial. The north-south burial could be any date prior to the 8th century. 04844 Site of Roman and A complex of probably later 6th century features containing Y Post-Roman (residual?) Roman pottery. Features included a possible pond Activity, Wellgate, containing preserved wooden structures including a fence, a Conisbrough line of stakes, a wooden box structure and a wattle track. An undated hearth may have been associated with this activity. 05236 Possible Later Ten flints were recovered from the site, all from stratified Y Mesolithic Flint contexts, the majority coming from organic deposits filling the Find and Undated Phase 1 pond complex. Flint Finds, Wellgate, Consibrough ESY398 Archaeological Trial In September and October 2002 trial trenching was Y Y Trenching and undertaken with excavation work being carried out in October Exacavation at and November 2002. The investigation revealed archaeological Wellgate remains dating from the Roman period onwards. The earliest activity comprised a substantial cut feature set with a number of wooden structures including a fence, stake alignment and track. The only dating evidence was from Roman pottery dating to the 2nd and 4th centuries AD. There was also medieval activity dating to the 11th and 12th centuries. ESY1359 Test pitting at the Three test pits adjacent to the castle all encountered late Y Lodge, Conisbrough medieval layers overlain by 19th-century deposits. In one pit a Castle later medieval wall was recorded. ESY1360 Strip and record Mitigation work ahead of the creation of a visitor centre Y exercise at The encountered remains associated with the outer bailey of the Lodge, Conisbrough 12th-/13th-century castle. Remains associated with the timber castle predating the present stone structure were also recorded. ESY1396 Earthwork Survey Measured earthwork survey at Conisbrough Castle. Only slight Y at Conisbrough and equivocal evidence for pre-conquest features was Castle, identified. Medieval and later features were recorded. Conisbrough ESY1397 Geophysical survey Geophysical survey identified features including a possible Y to the west and section of wall, a fishpond and a number of buildings of south of unknown date and function. Conisbrough Castle
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SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY5343 Wellgate, Conisbrough, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y Y HSY5326 North Cliff Hill (Conisbrough Crags), Commons and greens Y Conisbrough, Doncaster HSY5349 St Peter's Church Conisbrough, Doncaster Religious (Worship) Y HSY5353 Northcliffe Road allotments, Conisbrough, Allotments Y Doncaster HSY5354 Elm Green Lane, Conisbrough, Doncaster Villas/ Detached Housing Y HSY5355 Castle Hill villas, Conisbrough, Doncaster Villas/ Detached Housing Y HSY5356 Ivanhoe Road / Rowena Road / Athelstane Terraced Housing Y Road, Conisbrough, Doncaster HSY5357 Miners Welfare Recreation Ground, Playing Fields/ Recreation ground Y Conisbrough, Doncaster HSY5358 Mid-twentieth century social housing estates, Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y Conisbrough, Doncaster HSY5372 Park Road, Conisbrough, Doncaster Semi-Detached Housing Y HSY5373 March Vale Rise, Conisbrough Private Housing Estate Y HSY5425 The Oval, Conisbrough, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y HSY5427 Norwood Road, Conisbrough, Doncaster Semi-Detached Housing Y HSY5429 North Cliff Road, Conisbrough, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y HSY5444 Station Road, Conisbrough, Doncaster Villas/ Detached Housing Y HSY5445 Terraces around 'The Laurels' Conisbrough, Terraced Housing Y Doncaster HSY5446 Elm Grove Lane, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y HSY5447 Warren Road / Old Road, Conisbrough, Terraced Housing Y Doncaster HSY5448 March Street, West Street and Waverley Terraced Housing Y Avenue, Conisbrough, Doncaster HSY5449 Conisbrough Commercial Core, Conisbrough, Commercial Core-Urban Y Doncaster HSY5450 High Street / Waverly Avenue, Conisbrough, Villas/ Detached Housing Y Doncaster HSY5451 Church Street, Conisbrough, Doncaster Vernacular Cottages Y HSY5457 Holywell Lane, Chapel Lane, Conisbrough, Terraced Housing Y Doncaster
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Allocation Reference: 733 Area (Ha): 8.941 Allocation Type: Employment NGR (centre): SE 6761 1371 Site Name: Capitol Park, Omega Boulevard, Thorne Settlement: Thorne Moorends
Allocation Recommendations
Archaeological significance of site Unknown Historic landscape significance Negligible Suitability of site for allocation Uncertain archaeological constraint
Summary Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event - 1 record/3 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence Yes Yes Cartographic features of interest No Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Unknown n/a
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Allocation Reference: 733 Area (Ha): 8.941 Allocation Type: Employment NGR (centre): SE 6761 1371 Site Name: Capitol Park, Omega Boulevard, Thorne Settlement: Thorne Moorends
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR does not record any monuments or events within the site. One monument and three events are recorded in the buffer zone. The monument and one of the events relate to an augur survey identifying a good potential for buried alluvial deposits with environmental remains in the area around the River Don. Two evaluations associated with the expansion of the distribution centre within the buffer did not reveal significant archaeological remains. No Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings are recorded within the site or the buffer zone. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project recorded earthwork ridge and furrow within the site and the buffer zone from photographs taken in the 1960s. This part of the site has since been developed and earthworks are unlikely to survive. The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as Distribution Centre of late 20th-century date, comprising large areas of hard standing for the storage of motor vehicles and distribution yards and large warehouse sheds for manufacturing or storage use. There is no legibility of historic valley floor meadows. Character zones within the buffer are defined as Drained Wetland; Motorway and Trunk Road Junctions; Distribution Centre; Artificial Lakes; Private Housing Estate; Other Industry; and Vernacular Cottages. The site is currently part of an area of depots and distribution centres, and is mainly occupied by car parks. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The site was shown as fields on the 1854 OS map. A substantial curvilinear drain crossed the northern part of the site at that date, while a road and High Ealand were also marked. The drain had become disused by 1906. With the exception of the removal of the 19th-century field boundaries, little change had occurred within the site by 1984. Various features were marked within the buffer zone on the 1855 OS map including fields, field boundaries, the South Yorkshire Railway, the old course of the River Don, several public houses, a chapel, a school and a smithy. Orchards were shown on the 1892 map, with allotments on the 1962 map. The M18 had been built by 1981. Survival: The construction of Capitol Park is likely to have impacted on sub-surface deposits within its footprint, though the extent of disturbance will depend on the methods used in site preparation and construction. The potential for the survival of any previously unrecorded buried archaeology is therefore unknown. An evaluation on land to the south of Omega Boulevard indicated a low archaeological potential within this area. Further investigations: Further archaeological investigations may be required if the site is brought forward for development. Significance: Unknown.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: Twenty-first-century aerial photographs show the Capitol Park within the site by 2002, with the majority of the site being car parks and a light industrial building. There is no Lidar coverage for this site.
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Photograph references: Google Earth: 2002, 2008, 2009. Bing Maps: 2015.
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 04973 Holocene Sediment An area of land with good potential for the recovery of Y Sequences, environmental data in the form of sediment sequences lies to Fishlake the south east of Fishlake. These sequences have the potential to identify buried soils and former lands surfaces that in turn, can indicate the likelihood of prehistoric settlement. ESY261 Archaeological Archaeological evaluation in 2002 indicated that the site is of Y Evaluation of Land low archaeological potential. A low bank located at the eastern off Omega edge of the site is likely to have been a headland associated Boulevard, Capitol with ridge and furrow to the west. A boating dyke crossing the Park site from the east to west was created in the mid 17th century as a canal linking Thorne with the River Don. ESY538 Archaeological Between January and February 2006 an archaeological Y Evaluation and evaluation was conducted on land adjacent to Cassons Road. Mitigation on Land The excavation of trial trenches revealed a tree trunk. Extant adjoining Cassons field boundaries were also recorded but no deposits of Road archaeological significance were observed. ESY762 Auger Survey and An auger survey and scientific dating of a sediment sequence Y Feasibility Study for was conducted on 6th and 7th February 2009. The auger OSL dating of survey was used to characterise the sediments in the study alluvial sediments. area. 13 hand auger cores were taken and the results used to select two locations for mechanical coring. OSL dating was conducted on one of the cores and carbon dating on the other.
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY4609 Capitol Park, Thorne, Doncaster Distribution Centre Y Y HSY4416 North Common, Thorne, Doncaster Drained Wetland Y HSY4452 River Don between Fishlake and Stainforth Valley Floor Meadows Y HSY4454 Huddle Grounds / Stainforth Ings, Doncaster Drained Wetland Y HSY4604 M18 J6 (north end), Thorne, Doncaster Motorway and Trunk Road Y Junctions HSY4605 M18 J6 (Southern End), Thorne, Doncaster Motorway and Trunk Road Y Junctions HSY4607 Car distribution centre, J6 M18, Thorne Distribution Centre Y HSY5624 The Delves Fishponds, Thorne, Doncaster Artificial Lake Y HSY5625 20th century infill to the western end of 'Field Private Housing Estate Y Side', Thorne, Doncaster HSY5642 Dorothy Avenue, Thorne, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y HSY5646 North Eastern Road, Doncaster Other Industry Y HSY5668 Thorne Waterside, Thorne, Doncaster Vernacular Cottages Y
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Allocation Reference: 735 Area (Ha): 1.41 Allocation Type: Employment NGR (centre): SE 5824 0494 Site Name: Land East of Silk Road, Wheatley Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area
Allocation Recommendations
Archaeological significance of site Unknown Historic landscape significance Negligible Suitability of site for allocation Uncertain archaeological constraint
Summary Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event - 1 record Cropmark/Lidar evidence Yes Yes Cartographic features of interest No Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a
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Allocation Reference: 735 Area (Ha): 1.41 Allocation Type: Employment NGR (centre): SE 5824 0494 Site Name: Land East of Silk Road, Wheatley Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR does not record any monuments or events within the site. One findspot is recorded within the buffer, a large quantity of Roman pottery recovered during construction of the International Harvester’s Factory a short distance to the southeast of the site. No Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings are recorded within the site or buffer zone. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project records ridge and furrow cultivation within the site and southern part of the buffer. These were visible as earthworks in 1956, though the area within the buffer has since been developed and any earthwork features within the site itself have been levelled. Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and much of the buffer to the east and northeast as a factory complex associated with the chemical industry, developed by the Bemberg company in 1928-20, in a Germanic-Modern style of infilled steel and reinforced concrete frames rendered in white cement. The company produced 'artificial silk' or Rayon, and was converted to Nylon production in 1953. By the time of the closure of the factory in 1996, it had been occupied by ICI and DuPont. There is no legibility of former strips fields enclosed from open fields. The current style of buildings surrounding the site suggests that the factory complex has been completely demolished and the area is now modern retail park units. Further character zones within the buffer include drained wetland at Bentley Ings to the northwest, further industrial premises to the southwest and planned social housing to the southeast. The site is currently rough grassland north of retail units, with hedgerows preserving partial former field boundaries. It is bounded to the north by the River Don New Cut. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The 1854 OS map shows the site as part of three narrow fields, with sinuous boundaries characteristic of the enclosure of strips from open field. A drainage ditch ran along the eastern boundary of the central field, and the River Don formed the northern boundary. The area was called Red Cliff Closes. A small shed was shown in the western field, to the south of the site area. It was not shown in 1892, but in 1906 the western fields had been subdivided into four and a shed was shown in the central field, again south of the site. By 1939, these were again shown as part of three fields. In 1974, the southeast part of the site was shown as part of a larger field or area of vacant ground, possibly used as a car parking area for the factory. This pattern was unchanged by 1992. Within the buffer, the 1854 map showed further fields, with Wheatley Lane shown to the south. Many of the fields had sheds, suggesting they may have been used as allotments or market gardens. Wheatley Park, ornamental parkland associated with Wheatley Hall, extended into the southeast edge of the buffer. The River Don and a substantial channel called the Flood Drain ran through the northwest part of the buffer, with the Great Northern Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire railway line running parallel to and northwest of the Flood Drain. The sheds were not shown on the 1894 OS map. In 1906, a building, possibly two semi-detached houses, was shown at the point where Wheatley Lane entered the park and become a footpath, and allotment gardens were shown in a field at the southwest edge of the buffer. By 1930, several more houses had been built along Wheatley Lane, but the buffer was still rural in character. It had changed dramatically by 1939, when Wheatley Hall Road had been widened and extended through the former park, and housing estates were shown to the south of the road. A large factory complex was shown to the east of the site, labelled 'Artificial Silk Factory'. It had a works railway that exited the factory along Churchill Road to the south of the site, joining the main line at Doncaster, and labelled the Wheatley Branch of the LNER in 1948. By 1956, further works buildings were under construction to the southwest of the site, extending up to the southwest site boundary by 1961, with a building shown as an oil refinery in 1974. The synthetic fibre factory had extended by 1974, with an associated electricity sub-station shown just to the east of the site.
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Survival: The site has been grassland during the 21st century, and may have been used for arable cultivation in the past. Some topsoil stripping occurred c.2008, though it is unclear how extensive this was. The potential for the survival of unrecorded buried archaeology within the site is moderate. A large quantity of Roman pottery found nearby suggests there is the potential for similar remains within the site. The proximity of the site to the River Don suggests there may be the potential for buried alluvial sequences that could contain palaeoenvironmental data. Further investigations: Further archaeological investigations may be required if the site is brought forward for development. Significance: Unknown. Note: Site 735 contains smaller Site 520.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: The 2002 aerial photograph shows the site as two fields covered in rough grass, with the central hedgerow boundary dividing the two fields still surviving and trees along the eastern edge. The southeast part of the site was shown as a large tarmac-surfaced area. The synthetic fibre factory to the east had been demolished at that date. A works building stood to the southwest, possibly the oil refinery, though altered since 1992. By 2008, the area to the south of the site was shown as three retail units, probably car showrooms, surrounded by car parking areas, and the site itself had been at least partially stripped of tarmac, vegetation and possibly topsoil, though the central hedge survived. New retail park buildings were shown on the former factory site. By 2015, grass had regenerated within the site. The Lidar data shows the northeast, southwest and central field boundaries as hollows, indicating they may have been drainage ditches. A large mound, probably a recent soil or hardcore dump, was shown at the eastern corner of the site, south of the sub-station. No traces of ridge and furrow earthworks are shown on the Lidar image. Photograph references: Google Earth coverage 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009 & 2015. Lidar data file SE5804 DTM 1m. OS/56T21 0043 13-Sep- 1956.
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 01825/01 Roman Pottery Roman pottery -large quantity of Romano-British pottery Y Assemblage, recovered during constructions of International Harvester's Wheatley, Factory, Wheatley.
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY5179 Former British Bemberg / Du Pont Wheatley Chemical Y Y Hall Road, Wheatley, Doncaster HSY4425 Bentley Ings, Doncaster Drained Wetland Y HSY5186 Radiance Road, Wheatley, Doncaster Other Industry Y HSY5195 Harrowden Road, Wheatley, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y
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Allocation Reference: 736 Area (Ha): 6.55 Allocation Type: Allocation Type: Employment NGR (centre): SE 6386 1469 Site Name: Land on the north side of Lands End Rd Settlement: Thorne Moorends
Allocation Recommendations
Archaeological significance of site Unknown Historic landscape significance Uncertain Suitability of site for allocation Uncertain archaeological constraint
Summary Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event 1 event 1 event Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest No Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Partial n/a
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Allocation Reference: 736 Area (Ha): 6.55 Allocation Type: Allocation Type: Employment NGR (centre): SE 6386 1469 Site Name: Land on the north side of Lands End Rd Settlement: Thorne Moorends
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR records one event in the site and the buffer zone. This was a coring survey undertaken to investigate the potential for buried deposits associated with raised areas that may have attracted former settlement activity. The survey recorded inorganic sand, silt and clay, with no evidence for the continuation of the Thorne Moors peat and gravel spurs into the survey area. No Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings are recorded within the site or the buffer zone. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project recorded levelled ridge and furrow within the buffer zone. The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as Drained Wetland, depicted as newly laid out allotments on the 1825 enclosure plan. The present boundaries are largely defined by the 19th- century drainage layout, with no legibility of former commons. Character zones within the buffer are defined as Modern Drained Wetland; Motorway and Trunk Road Junctions; and Distribution Centre. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The site was shown as fields on the 1854 OS map. Part of the Thorne and Dikesmarsh Road ran through the western part of the site, while two field drains were also shown. Little change had occurred within the site by 1932, although three small detached buildings had been constructed in the south-west corner by 1956. Various features were marked within the buffer zone on the 1854 OS map including fields, Lands End Road, North Common Drain and Shepherd House Close Drain. The Hull to Doncaster railway had been built by 1892. A small number of detached houses had been built between the site and Lands End Road by 1984. Survival: No deep ground disturbance has been recorded on the site, suggesting that the potential for the survival of any unrecorded buried archaeology is moderate; however, a deposit survey covering the northern edge of the site did not identify any archaeological deposits and this may be the case across the site. Further investigations: Further archaeological investigation may be required if the site is brought forward for development. Significance: Unknown.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: Twenty-first-century aerial photographs show the site as rough grassland. Hedges and a rough track were shown in the site in 2002, but had been removed by 2009. Between 2002 and 2008 a large light industrial building was shown to the immediate north of the site, with an area of hardstanding for parking shown within the north end of the site. There is no Lidar coverage for this site. Photograph references: Google Earth: 2002, 2008 & 2009.
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SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID ESY539 Land at Common In November 2002 a programme of coring was conducted on Y Y Road, Bloom Hill, land at Common Road in Bloom Hill. The deposit survey was Thorne Moor: The carried out on land at Common Road to identify any raised Results of Phase 1 areas likely to have attracted early settlement or subsistence Archaeological activity. The deposits encountered were mainly inorganic sand, Evaluation silt and clay. Of particular interest was that no evidence for a continuation of the nearby Thorne Moors peat and gravel spur deposits was encountered by this survey.
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY4416 North Common, Thorne, Doncaster Drained Wetland Y Y HSY4604 M18 J6 (north end), Thorne, Doncaster Motorway and Trunk Road Y Junctions HSY4607 Car distribution centre, J6 M18, Thorne Distribution Centre Y
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Allocation Reference: 737 Area (Ha): 0.694 Allocation Type: Employment NGR (centre): SE 5844 0081 Site Name: Land Opposite Wright Business Park, Balby Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area
Allocation Recommendations
Archaeological significance of site Negligible Historic landscape significance Negligible Suitability of site for allocation No archaeological constraint
Summary Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event 1 event 1 record/7 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest No Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Extensive n/a
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Allocation Reference: 737 Area (Ha): 0.694 Allocation Type: Employment NGR (centre): SE 5844 0081 Site Name: Land Opposite Wright Business Park, Balby Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area
Site assessment Known assets/character: One SMR event is recorded within the site and into the southern end of the buffer zone, an archaeological evaluation which recorded evidence of a 19th- to 20th-century farmhouse. Six further events are recorded within the buffer zone, all to the south of the site and those which identified archaeological remains recorded evidence of Iron Age to Romano-British activity. One SMR monument within the buffer zone relates to an Iron Age to Romano-British brickwork field system and associated features found in one of the evaluations. There are no Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings within the site or the buffer zone. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project does not record any features within the site. Within the buffer zone, traces of an Iron Age to Romano-British field system are recorded to the south of the site. Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as part of a larger area of agglomerated fields, within an area of former wetland. The original pattern of enclosures was probably created by the massive drainage programme of Vermuyden in the 17th century. Prior to this the land was probably wet and marshy meadows. Removal of field boundaries, mostly in the latter part of the 20th century, has created an area of agglomerated fields much in keeping with the surrounding fields. Legibility of the former landscape is partial as the field drains still exist amongst the fields. Further character areas within the buffer zone include former wetland, industrial and train depot/sidings. The site currently comprises an area of scrubland. Modern industrial buildings immediately surround the site. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: In 1851 the site was located with a field, part of a group of fields labelled Potteric Carr. Balby Carr Bank was extant immediately to the north of the site, running along the northern site boundary, with the Mother Drain located just within the site boundary, following the course of the road. A strip of trees, named The New Plantation, was present to the west of the site, which by 1892 had been renamed Duck Plantation. The western site boundary was marked by a drain. By 1892 Balby Carr Farm had been built over the majority of the site, although the plantation still remained. By 1930 the majority of the plantation had been removed, although a small area was still present at the north-western end of the site. Within the buffer zone, the area surrounding the site was fields in 1851, labelled Potteric Carr to the south and Doncaster Carr to the north. The railway line was extant to the north of the site, with a circular area of trees named Decoy Wood located to the immediate north of the site. A large Wagon Depot had been constructed immediately to the north-west of the site by 1892, which was connected to the railway line to the north. By 1903 these works had been extended to the west and were immediately to the north of the site. By 1984 the A6182 had been built to the east of the site. The area to the south of the site remained largely undeveloped by 1992, although contained many drains. Survival: The site is shown on the 1851 map as part of a field, although by 1892 Balby Carr Farm had been constructed over the majority of the site. This was still present on the 1992 map, although had been removed by 2002. The presence of the farm over the majority of the site suggests that the potential for earlier unrecorded buried archaeological remains within the site is likely to be poor. Further investigations: Archaeological evaluation has already occurred on the site (ESY1060); further archaeological investigation is unlikely to be required if the site is brought forward for development.
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Significance: Negligible.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: Twenty-first century aerial photographs show that Balby Carr Farm was demolished sometime between 1992 and 2002. The site appeared to be a construction zone in 2002 during the extension of Balby Carr Bank to the immediate east of the site. By 2008 the works were complete and the current site boundaries had been established, with the construction of a large industrial unit to the south of the site. The site is currently scrub wasteland. No earthworks of archaeological significance have been identified within the available Lidar data for the site. Photograph references: Google Earth images 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2015. Lidar data tile SE5800 DTM 1m. RAF/CPE/UK/2563 4494 28-Mar-1948, ULM (RC8FK217) 13-JUN-1983.
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 05039 Balby Carr A number of ditches from a 'brickwork' plan field system were Y Brickwork Field excavated to the west of White Rose Way in 2002. System and Environmental evidence suggests that locally this site is likely Settlement to have been pasture. There is evidence that the fields may have been surrounded by hedges. Radiocarbon dating of waterlogged wood from these features dates to between 50 BC to 130 AD. There were at least two phases of ditch construction and occupation, with roundhouses excavated in the west of the area in 2008. ESY1060 First Point, Balby The evaluation uncovered features associated with a 19th Y Y Carr Evaluation /20th century farmhouse. Areas A1 A2 A3 ESY1063 Balby Carr, Trial trenches to the north of Balby Carr Bank that showed the Y Doncaster Area C1 area to be heavily disturbed by modern activity. No archaeological remains were observed. ESY1064 Balby Carr Bank, 1.2 acres were stripped revealing discrete features found to be Y Doncaster caused by tree disturbance. Two phases of drainage were found. The initial phase, aligned north-east to south-west, appear to date to the late 18th/early 19th century. A later phase comprised of ceramic land drains probably dating to the late 19th/ early 20th century. Part of a modern landscaped pond was identified along with shallow curving features probably associated with heavy agricultural machinery tracking across the area. ESY1067 Balby Carr, Harley Trial Trenches that revealed ditches associated with a larger Y Davidson Site prehistoric field system ESY1068 Balby Carr Harley Excavation following an evaluation phase. Prehistoric Y Davidson Site settlement and trackways were identified. Excavation ESY1072 Balby Carr Survey prior to excavation. Despite extensive cropmarks in the Y Geophysical Survey area the geophysics did not provide clear readings of archaeological features.
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ESY1073 Catesby Business Trial trenching across 6.3 ha site. This revealed field boundary Y Park, Balby Carr and enclosure ditches dating to the Iron Age to Romano-British Evaluation period.
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY4231 Potteric and Loversal Carr, Loversall, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y Y HSY4232 Balby, Loversall and Potteric Carr, Doncaster Drained Wetland Y HSY5261 Railway Sidings, Doncaster Train Depot/ Sidings Y HSY5277 Balby Carr Bank, Doncaster Metal Trades (Heavy) Y
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Allocation Reference: 738 Area (Ha): 1.697 Allocation Type: Employment NGR (centre): SE 5824 0059 Site Name: Land At Water Vole Way, Balby Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area
Allocation Recommendations
Archaeological significance of site Negligible Historic landscape significance Negligible Suitability of site for allocation No archaeological constraint
Summary Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event 2 events 2 records/16 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest No Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a
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Allocation Reference: 738 Area (Ha): 1.697 Allocation Type: Employment NGR (centre): SE 5824 0059 Site Name: Land At Water Vole Way, Balby Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area
Site assessment Known assets/character: Two SMR events are recorded within the site. At the northern end of the site, and extending into the north and west parts of the buffer zone, an archaeological evaluation recorded evidence of a 19th- to 20th-century farmhouse, although these remains were found within the buffer and no features of archaeological significance were recorded within the site itself. The event boundary for geophysical survey and trial trenching associated with an IKEA site extends into the southern end of the site, but none of the site was actually covered by the fieldwork. Features recorded to the south included a large ditch that may have been a medieval deer park boundary, and an undated ditch, gully and pit that could be of Iron Age origin. Fourteen further events are recorded within the buffer zone, and those which identified archaeological remains mostly recorded evidence of Iron Age to Romano-British activity, with some possible evidence of earlier prehistoric activity. Two SMR monuments within the buffer zone comprise the Iron Age to Romano-British brickwork field system and associated features and deer park boundary found during evaluations to the south of the site. There are no Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings within the site or the buffer zone. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project does not record any features within the site. Within the buffer zone, traces of an Iron Age to Romano-British field system are recorded to the east of the site. Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the eastern half of the site as part of a larger area of agglomerated fields, within an area of former wetland. The original pattern of enclosures was probably created by the massive drainage programme of Vermuyden in the 17th century. Prior to this the land was probably wet and marshy meadows. Removal of field boundaries, mostly in the later 20th century, has created an area of agglomerated fields, with partial legibility of the former landscape due to surviving field drains. The western half of the site is characterised as enclosed drained wetlands. The field boundaries as depicted on the 1st edition OS map remain almost intact and are probably the result of the massive wetlands drainage programme in the 17th century. Prior to this the land was probably wet and marshy meadows. Legibility of the former landscape is invisible. Further character areas within the buffer zone are industrial. The site currently comprises an area of scrubland, surrounded by modern industrial buildings. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: In 1851 the site was located within fields named Potteric Carr. A strip of trees, named New Plantation, was present on a northeast to southwest alignment approximately through the centre of the site, with drains down each edge. By 1892 New Plantation had been renamed Duck Plantation. The 1902 map indicated that the trees had been removed and the area was shown as heathland, with the drains were still present along the former plantation boundaries. No change was evident on the 1992 map. Within the buffer zone, the area surrounding the site was fields in 1851, labelled Potteric Carr. Many of the field boundaries were defined by drains. Balby Carr Bank and the Mother Drain were present to the north of the site, with the railway line a little further to the north. A circular area of trees named Decoy Wood was located by the railway. A large Wagon Depot had been constructed immediately to the northwest of the site by 1892, which was connected to the railway line to the north. Balby Carr Farm had been constructed to the northeast of the site by this time. By 1903 the wagon depot had been extended to cover the area immediately to the north of the site. The A6182 had been built to the east of the site by 1984. The area to the south of the site remained largely undeveloped by 1992, containing many drains. Survival: A previous archaeological evaluation within the site did not record any features of archaeological interest, hence the survival of any previously unrecorded buried archaeological remains on the site is considered to be low.
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Further investigations: Archaeological evaluation on the site (ESY1060) revealed no archaeological features. Further archaeological investigation is unlikely to be required if the site is brought forward for development. Significance: Negligible.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: The 2002 aerial photography showed much of the topsoil stripped from the site, probably associated with the construction of Woodfield Way to the east. The current site boundaries had been established by 2008 with the completion of Woodfield Way, Watervole Way to the west and a large industrial unit to the north. No earthworks of archaeological origin have been identified within the Lidar data. Photograph references: Google Earth images 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2015. Lidar data tile SE5800 DTM 1m. RAF/CPE/UK/2563 4494 28-Mar-1948, ULM (RC8FK217) 13-JUN-1983.
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 05038 Possible Medieval Ditch identified by geophysical survey and excavation. Possible Y Deer Park boundary feature for a medieval deer park associated with Boundary, Balby Draw Dykes, a fortified manor built after 1220. The manor is Carr said to have been associated with a park of a thousand acres. Modern and historic field boundaries may have fossilised this boundary feature. 05039 Balby Carr A number of ditches from a 'brickwork' plan field system were Y Brickwork Field excavated to the west of White Rose Way in 2002. System and Environmental evidence suggests that locally this site is likely Settlement to have been pasture. There is evidence that the fields may have been surrounded by hedges. Radiocarbon determinations from waterlogged wood from these features suggests a date of between 50 BC to 130 AD. There were at least two phases of ditch construction and occupation, with roundhouses excavated in the west of the area in 2008. ESY1060 First Point, Balby The evaluation uncovered features associated with a 19th- to Y Y Carr Evaluation 20th-century farmhouse. Areas A1 A2 A3 ESY1061 First Point, Balby Trial trenching that uncovered a ring ditch and V shaped ditch. Y Carr, Doncaster The ring ditch was fully excavated. Areas B1, B2, B3, E ESY1063 Balby Carr, Trial trenches to the north of Balby Carr Bank that showed the Y Doncaster Area C1 area to be heavily disturbed by modern activity. No archaeological remains were observed. ESY1064 Balby Carr Bank, 1.2 acres were stripped revealing discrete features caused by Y Doncaster tree disturbance. Two phases of drainage were found, the earliest apparently of late 18th/early 19th century date. Part of a modern landscaped pond was identified along with features probably associated with heavy agricultural machinery tracking across the area. ESY1065 First Point, Balby Archaeological excavation revealing Iron Age settlement Y
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Carr, Doncaster radiocarbon dated to c.400-200 BC. Area D1 ESY1066 Catesby Business Evaluation at Balby Carr consisting of three trenches. Shallow Y Park, Doncaster ditches possibly associated with the adjacent late prehistoric and Romano-British field systems were identified. An undated row of wooden stakes was found. ESY1067 Balby Carr, Harley Trial trenches revealed ditches associated with a larger Y Davidson Site prehistoric field system. ESY1068 Balby Carr Harley Excavation following an evaluation phase. Prehistoric Y Davidson Site settlement and trackways were identified. Excavation ESY1069 Balby Carr Zone D2, Excavation that revealed part of a large enclosure, a rectilinear Y Phase 1 field system and a series of drainage gullies. Features are of pre-Roman date. ESY1070 Balby Carr Strip and record excavation that uncovered four archaeological Y Balancing Pond features. ESY1071 Ikea Site, Balby Geophysical survey and trial trenching carried out on proposed Y Y Carr, Doncaster site of an Ikea. ESY1072 Balby Carr Survey prior to excavation. Despite extensive cropmarks in the Y Geophysical Survey area the geophysics did not provide clear readings of archaeological features. ESY1073 Catesby Business Trial trenching across 6.3 ha site. This revealed field boundary Y Park, Balby Carr and enclosure ditches dating to the Iron Age to Romano-British Evaluation period. ESY1074 Catesby Business Excavation revealing late Iron Age to Romano British fields and Y Park, Balby Carr enclosures Excavation ESY1383 Watching brief at A watching brief conducted ahead of construction of a spine Y Carr Lodge Farm, road recorded archaeological features including field system Doncaster ditches and at least one roundhouse. Romano-British pottery was recovered, along with an Iron Age metalworking crucible. ESY286 Archaeological Aerial photographic and geophysical surveys identified two Y Field Evaluation at enclosures and a number of other linear and pit type features. Carr Lodge Farm Evaluation revealed that the two main enclosures almost certainly had hedged banks and were used for stock control. The evidence suggests that the site saw seasonal agricultural activity dependent upon the height of the water table.
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY4231 Potteric and Loversal Carr, Loversall, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y Y HSY4232 Balby, Loversall and Potteric Carr, Doncaster Drained Wetland Y Y HSY5277 Balby Carr Bank, Doncaster Metal Trades (Heavy) Y
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