Doncaster Local Plan: Archaeological Scoping Assessment
Allocation Reference: 251 Area (Ha): 13.21 Allocation Type: Housing/Employment NGR (centre): SK 4920 9882 Site Name: Hill Top Rd, Denaby Main Settlement: Denaby
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 - 2 records Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest Yes Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a
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Allocation Reference: 251 Area (Ha): 13.21 Allocation Type: Housing/Employment NGR (centre): SK 4920 9882 Site Name: Hill Top Rd, Denaby Main Settlement: Denaby
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR does not record any features within the site. Two monuments are recorded in the buffer zone, a Romano-British artefact scatter found in the western area, and post-medieval mine shaft hollows to the southwest. No listed buildings or Scheduled Monuments are recorded within the site or the buffer zone. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project recorded earthworks associated with a 20th-century munitions factory in the buffer zone to the northwest of the site, and a group of coal mine shaft hollows to the northwest, west and southwest. Possible ridge and furrow earthworks were recorded within the eastern end of Denaby Wood. The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as Modern Agglomerated Fields and Modern Other Industry. The landscape character within the site is mainly large fields produced through the loss of boundaries in the 20th century, with no legibility of former landscapes, whilst a small portion of the north part of the site falls within a modern industrial estate which developed after the closure of Denaby Main Colliery. An explosive works associated with the mine was within this zone from the late 19th to mid-20th century. Within the buffer, the landscape character includes Denaby Wood, possibly ancient woodland, to the west of the site, and an area of Modern Agglomerated Fields created through the clearance of part of the wood in the mid- 20th century. To the south of the site are further Modern Agglomerated Fields with no legibility of the former enclosure landscape, and 20th-century residential development which replaced the late 19th-century mining village. With the exception of the late 19th-century Flameless Explosives Company testing range and a small area of scrub, the site has been in agricultural use since at least 1841. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: No features were shown within the site on Thomas Jefferys’ 1771 map of Yorkshire or Christopher Greenwood’s 1817 map of the county. A single field boundary shown crossing the western part of the site on the 1841 Ordnance Survey map remained extant in 1854, when the remainder of the site had been divided into fields. A land drain crossed the northern part of the site at that date. The Flameless Explosives Company manufactured ‘securite’, for use in mining, in the northern part of the buffer zone in 1884 and the company’s testing range was shown as an excavated area within the site on the 1892 OS map, including a narrow gully that survives within the site. The explosives works remained open in 1903 but had been demolished by 1930, although the testing range continued to be shown. Few of the 19th-century field boundaries remained within the site by 1973. Within the buffer zone, the track to the south of the site was shown on Jefferys’ 1771 map, along with Denaby Wood to the west. A quarry was marked in the eastern part of the buffer zone in 1841. Coalpit Plantation, marked but not named on the 1854 OS map, may have been established to screen disused mine workings, with numerous shaft hollows depicted on aerial photography in the vicinity. An air shaft was marked in the southern part of the buffer area in 1892. The Flameless Explosives Works had been constructed to the north of the site in 1884. Several explosives magazines, a reservoir and a works’ waggonway were shown to the north of the site in 1893. A munitions factory was constructed in this area during the Second World War and remained extant in 1966, by which time it had extended into Denaby Wood. While the factory continued to be shown in 1972, much of this area was cleared in the 1980s. Survival: Due to the lack of deep ground disturbance in the majority of the site, the potential for survival of any previously unrecorded heritage assets is considered to be moderate. A linear gully possibly associated with the former Flameless Explosives Company testing range remains extant but its condition is currently unknown. Mining
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remains are recorded to the north, west and south of the site, but currently no associated features are recorded within the site. Further investigations: Further archaeological investigations may be required if the site is brought forward for development. Significance: Unknown. Remains associated with the explosives testing range could be considered to be of Local significance.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: Twenty-first-century aerial photographs show the site in use as arable, with the exception of an area of scrub immediately to the south of Eland Road and the former Flameless Explosives Company testing range, which was heavily-wooded by 2002. A belt of trees runs along the southern boundary of the site. There is no Lidar coverage for this site. Photograph references: Google Earth coverage, 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009 & 2015.
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 4672 Romano-British Location of Romano-British artefact scatter including several Y Artefact Scatter, pieces of pottery and a possible early medieval “Danish” axe Denaby Wood, head. Denaby 4793 Post-Medieval Bell Bell pits near Denaby Main identified by aerial photography by Y Pits near Denaby English Heritage. Main
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY5321 Denaby Lane Industrial Estate, Denaby Main, Modern Other Industry Y Y Doncaster HSY5379 Land south of Denaby Main Village, Doncaster Modern Agglomerated fields Y Y HSY3194 Land north of Hooton Roberts, Rotherham Modern Agglomerated fields Y HSY4006 Formerly Denaby Wood, Rotherham Modern Agglomerated fields Y HSY4557 Denaby Wood, Denaby, Doncaster Medieval to Modern Ancient Y Woodland HSY5320 Harrogate Drive area, Denaby Main, Doncaster Modern Planned Estate (Social Y Housing)
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Allocation Reference: 252 Area (Ha): 8.26 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 5350 0251 Site Name: Spring Lane, Sprotbrough Settlement: Sprotbrough
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 - 1 SMR record/event - 6 records Cropmark/Lidar evidence Yes Yes Cartographic features of interest Yes Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Partial n/a
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Allocation Reference: 252 Area (Ha): 8.26 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 5350 0251 Site Name: Spring Lane, Sprotbrough Settlement: Sprotbrough
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR does not record any findspots, monuments or events within the site. Four findspots and two monuments are recorded in the buffer zone: a Roman coin, a medieval coin, a bell cross base, the sites of two former medieval crosses and a large complex of Iron Age-Roman enclosures. There are no Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings within the site. One Grade II listed building is recorded in the buffer: a resited cross base to the west of the Spring Lane junction. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project recorded levelled ridge and furrow in the south-west part of the site. Iron Age-Roman boundary ditch cropmarks and further levelled ridge and furrow were recorded in the buffer zone. The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as Agglomerated Fields. This land was formerly characterised by large piecemeal enclosures and scattered small woodlands but between 1948 and 1966 agglomeration and intensification processes have resulted in much larger agricultural units. There is fragmentary legibility of older boundaries and some evidence of open field agriculture in the form of field names. Character zones within the buffer are defined as Agglomerated Fields, Private Housing Estate and Semi-Detached Housing. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The1854 Ordnance Survey map showed a small disused limestone quarry in the northern part of the site. The remainder of the site comprised parts of several fields, with a short access road from Spring Lane. Many of the mid-19th-century field boundaries had been removed by 1892, A small, detached building stood in the former quarry site at that date. This was marked as a greenhouse on the 1903 OS map. Further field boundaries had been removed by that date. The greenhouse remained extant in 1948, was not shown on the 1956 map but was again shown on the 1961 OS map. Further field boundaries had been removed by that date. No changes were shown within the site on the 1980 OS map. Numerous features were shown within the buffer zone on the 1854 OS map, including Clay Pit Plantation, Fox Flat Plantation, the pedestal of a stone cross, the pedestal of a bell cross, Spring Lane, Folder Lane and Toocroft Lane. The LNER railway line was shown in 1904 to the immediate east of the site. Cusworth Road Bridge, a water tower and several greenhouses were shown in 1930, with housing developments shown on the 1956 OS map. Further housing was shown in 1966 and 1980. The LNER railway line had been dismantled by that date. Survival: The site has been fields since at least 1854, in recent arable cultivation. This may have caused some truncation to sub-surface remains, but below the plough zone the potential for the survival of unrecorded buried archaeological remains is considered to moderate. A small area at the northern end of the site has been quarried. 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 site as a field, under arable cultivation. Small areas of scrub
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and trees are shown within the former quarry. There is no lidar data for this site. Photograph references: Google Earth: 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009 and 2015. Bing Maps: 2015.
Statutory Designations Reference Name Designation/ Site? Buffer? ID Grade 1286430 Re-sited cross base to west of junction with Spring Lane II Y
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 00058/01 Iron Age or A large complex of Iron-Age/Romano-British enclosures, Y Romano-British trackways and field systems shown on aerial photographs to Complex of Large the north-east of Scabba Wood. Rectangular Enclosures, Trackways and Field Systems, Sprotbrough 00404/02 Bell Cross (base Cross Base Y only) 00409/01 Site of former Cross - no remains Y medieval cross, Spring Lane, Sprotbrough 00410/01 Site of former Cross - no remains Y medieval stone cross, Sprotbrough 02631/01 Roman Coin Find, Roman coin Ar denarius of Tragen 101-2 AD Rome mint. Y Sprotbrough 02656/01 Medieval Coin Find, Medieval Ar long cross penny too worn for identification. Y Fox Flat Plantation, Sprotbrough
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY4262 Land west of Sprotborough village, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y Y HSY4270 Former 'Park Closes', Sprotborough, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y HSY5097 Spring Lane, Sprotborough, Doncaster Semi-Detached Housing Y HSY5100 Speculative estates to the west of Private Housing Estate Y Sprotborough, Doncaster
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Allocation Reference: 253 Area (Ha): 1.74 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 5903 0272 Site Name: Bloodstock Sales Site, Carr House Rd 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 - 2 SMR record/event - 2 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest Yes Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Partial n/a
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Allocation Reference: 253 Area (Ha): 1.74 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 5903 0272 Site Name: Bloodstock Sales Site, Carr House Rd Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR does not record any monuments or events within the site. Two events are recorded at the eastern edge of the buffer. A watching brief on a new bus corridor along Bawtry Road identified mainly late 19th- to 20th- century dumping pits, field drains and a tarmac surface, some of which may have been associated with an airfield, and a few sherds of late medieval pottery. Evaluation at the site of the proposed racecourse hotel revealed only recent remains associated with the racecourse. No Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings are recorded within the site. Two grade II listed buildings are within the buffer, the Grand St Leger Hotel to the northeast of the site, and Hamilton Lodge to the south. 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 very southern edge. Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as the Belle Vue stables, associated with Doncaster Racecourse. The stables were built in the grounds of a former villa by 1930, with the house converted into the St Leger Hotel to the immediate northeast. Further character zones within the buffer comprise Doncaster Racecourse to the northeast, a college to the north, a former football ground to the southeast, a school and almshouses to the west, and planned social housing estates to the northwest, west and south. In 2009, the site comprised a roughly rectangular plot of land occupied by low stable blocks and an octagonal building towards the western side. The 2015 aerial view suggests that most of these buildings have been demolished, though the clarity is poor. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The 1854 OS map shows the site as part of two narrow fields and an area of gardens to the rear of Belle Vue, a large villa-type house. By 1892, the fields had been combined into one, though trees marked part of the former boundary, and a pump was shown within the southern part of the site. The stables were built within the site between 1903 and 1930, labelled Belle View Stables. It included five long stable blocks, a couple of smaller buildings, and possibly loose boxes around the north, east and south edges of the site. Six long stable blocks were shown in 1938. Exercise rings were shown to the southeast, northeast and west centre of the complex in 1961. The latter had been replaced by the octagonal building by 1976, whilst further loose boxes and stable blocks had covered the exercise areas in the southwest and at the eastern edge, with only a small ring still shown in the central east area. This layout remained largely unchanged by 2009. Within the buffer, the 1854 map showed the Great North Road aligned east-west to the north of the site, and Carr House Lane to the east and south, on a more irregular route than its current course and labelled as a bridle road. A footpath labelled as the route of a Roman Road ran to the south of the site, on a northwest to southeast alignment. Doncaster Common and racecourse were shown to the northeast of the site, a Deaf and Dumb institute to the north, and Carr House and associated parkland to the south. The remainder of the buffer was fields. Hamilton Lodge was shown to the south of the site in 1892, and Carr House was shown as a fever hospital at that date. Belle Vue House was still shown in 1930, and four detached houses had been built to the north of the site by that date. Hamilton Lodge had been converted to a maternity home, and housing was shown in the east, southeast and southwest parts of the buffer. Carr House Lane had been widened. A drill hall and miniature rifle range was shown to the north of the Great North Road. Further housing was shown to the west and north of the site by 1938, when the Drill Hall had been demolished. The 1976 map showed further extension of the stables to the north, fronting onto the Great North Road, and Hamilton Lodge to the south had become a sports club. There were no significant changes within the buffer by 1993.
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Survival: The site was occupied by stable buildings since at least 1930, and these appear to have been recently demolished. These buildings are unlikely to have had substantial foundations, and the extent of sub-surface disturbance within the site may be limited. The potential for the preservation of unrecorded buried archaeology is considered to be moderate. The possible route of a Roman road is depicted on historic mapping within the southern part of the buffer, though is not recorded in the SMR. Further investigations: Further archaeological investigations may be required if the site is brought forward for development. Significance: Unknown.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: The 2002 aerial photograph shows the site as a roughly rectangular plot, bounded to the east by Carr House Road, to the south and west by housing and to the north by housing, further stable buildings and the St Leger Hotel. The interior of the site was occupied by rows of linear stable blocks, with an octagonal building in the central western part of the site, and a small exercise yard towards the northeast side. These were all still shown in 2009, but the very poor quality 2015 image appears to show all the buildings within the site having been demolished, and rubble covering much of the building footprints. The possible exception is the octagonal building. Street View imagery shows a tall stone wall around parts of the eastern side of the site, possibly a surviving element of the former grounds of the 1801 villa, now the St Leger Hotel. It is not continuous and in places is replaced by brick and concrete walling. Lidar data shows only the building locations and no other features of archaeological interest. Photograph references: Google Earth coverage 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009 & 2015. Lidar data tiles SE5802 & SE5902 DTM 1m. RAF/58/1891 F21 0090 14-Oct-1955.
Statutory Designations Reference Name Designation/ Site? Buffer? ID Grade 1191871 Hamilton Lodge II Y 1314873 The Grand St Leger Hotel with flanking screen walls and pavilion II Y
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID ESY900 Archaeological A limited number of archaeological features recorded to the Y Watching Brief at west comprised a large dumping pit and several ceramic land Bawtry Road drains of late 19th-/ early 20th century date. To the east of Quality Control Bus Area C, an old tarmac road surface was encountered and may Corridor, relate to access to the air field which formerly occupied the Doncaster, South site of the leisure complex. A series of dumping pits were also Yorkshire located close by and were all of 20th- or late 19th-century origin. A number of ditches may relate to the same phase of activity due to a similar orientation and profile. Three sherds of late medieval/early post-medieval pottery were found within a shallow ditch feature. A second feature with a similar fill, depth and orientation may also belong to this period but
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produced no datable evidence. ESY901 Archaeological No archaeological features or deposits were present on the Y Evaluation and site, with the only features encountered being of modern date Building Recording, and associated with the racecourse. The lack of subsoil in the Proposed site of area could suggest that it was extensively levelled and Doncaster landscaped. Racecourse Hotel, South Yorkshire
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY5292 Belle Vue Stables, Bennetthorpe, Doncaster Racecourse Y Y HSY5116 Doncaster Racecourse, Doncaster Racecourse Y HSY5235 Yorkshire Residential School for the Deaf, University or College Y Leger Way, Doncaster HSY5273 Belle Vue Ground, Bawtry Road, Doncaster Sports Ground Y HSY5283 Lime Tree Avenue, Hyde Park, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y HSY5289 Thoresby Avenue, Hyde Park, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) 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 HSY5299 Manor Drive, Bennetthorpe, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y
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Allocation Reference: 254 Area (Ha): 1.83 Allocation Type: Employment NGR (centre): SE 5960 0231 Site Name: Herten Triangle, Gliwice Way 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/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: 254 Area (Ha): 1.83 Allocation Type: Employment NGR (centre): SE 5960 0231 Site Name: Herten Triangle, Gliwice Way Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR records one monument within the site and buffer. The monument is the former site of Doncaster Airfield, which encompassed the site and most of the buffer. It was opened in 1939 and was used during the Second World War, then became a licensed airfield for light aircraft. It was closed in the late 1980s, and the site developed. One event is recorded, extending into the northern edge of the buffer, a watching brief on Bawtry Road, which identified mainly late 19th- to 20th-century dumping pits, field drains and a tarmac surface, some of which may have been associated with the airfield, and a few sherds of late medieval pottery. There are no Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings within the site or buffer. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project recorded the extent of the Doncaster Airfield in 1955 as encompassing the site and most of the buffer. Possible Iron Age to Roman enclosures and a wide trackway were recorded in the eastern part of the buffer from a photograph taken in 1977. Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as a leisure centre, built in 1989 on the former airfield, with no legibility of previous landscape types. Further character zones within the buffer comprise regenerated scrubland on the site of a former tip to the southwest, a school to the west, and social housing and a football ground to the northwest. The site currently comprises a triangle of grassland between access roads associated with the leisure centre. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The 1854 OS map shows the site as part of two fields, within an area known as Low Pasture. A footpath ran close to the southwest edge of the site. By 1903, no boundaries or drainage ditches were shown within the site. By 1930 a large opencast pit or quarry was shown in the northern part of the site. The 1937 map did not show the quarry or any features within the site. The access road along the north edge and part of Gliwice Way along the east side were first shown on the 1992 map, associated with the Dome leisure centre development, but the site itself was still unoccupied. Within the buffer, the 1854 map shows fields, within the Low Pasture area. The divisions were mainly defined by drainage ditches and the fields may have been relatively open pasture even at that date. The 1892 map depicted an very small old gravel pit and adjacent pump in the northwest part of the buffer. The 1903 map showed very few drainage ditches or divisions within the buffer. Belle Vue football ground and adjacent housing had been built in the northwest part of the buffer, and the footpath running across the pasture to the west of the site was labelled 'Roman Road'. The 1937 map showed only a small stretch of this footpath, two fairly large buildings to the northwest of the site, a smaller building and a new access road to the northeast. The remaining area was blank. The same layout was shown in 1956, and it is known that the airfield was located within the site by that date, suggesting its omission was a security measure. The 1961 map showed a football ground to the northeast of the site, adjacent to the building shown in 1937, with the buildings to the northwest shown as warehouses, and a new works nearby. Airfield features including a track and standing bays for planes were shown around the edges of the buffer. By 1984, a school and depot were shown at the western edge of the buffer. By 1993, the area to the north and east of the site had been redeveloped with a leisure centre and parking areas. Survival: The 1930 map depicted a quarry or opencast area in the northwest part of the site, indicating that any archaeological remains within this area are likely to have been removed. There has been no recorded disturbance in the southeast part of the site, though construction of the road network may have impacted on preservation around the edges of the site. In the southeast part of the site, the potential for the survival of unrecorded buried archaeology is currently unknown.
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Further investigations: Further archaeological investigations may be required if the site is brought forward for development. Significance: Unknown.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: The 2002 aerial photograph shows the site in its currently layout, with Gliwice Way to the west, Herten Way to the south and an un-named road along the northern edge. The surrounding area had developed further since 1992, with large car parking areas and an entertainment complex to the south of Herten Way , and further car parking to the north. The site was grassed at that date, and remained so to 2015. It is crossed by numerous informal footpaths. By 2015, new housing was shown to the east of Gliwice Way. Lidar data shows a slight bank around the edge of the site, and no other features of likely archaeological origin. Photograph references: Google Earth coverage 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009 & 2015. Lidar data tile SE5902 DTM 1m. RAF/58/1891 F21 0090 14-Oct-1955; MAL/77017 0102 28-Jun-1977.
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 04358/01 Doncaster Airbase The airport opened in 1939, but was taken over early by the Y and Military RAF as a 'Scatter Field', with a decoy airfield situated at Airfield Armthorpe to the northeast. At the end of hostilities, it opened as a licensed airfield for light aircraft. The airfield was closed in the late 1980s. Some of the dispersal pans still exist on the boundaries, but it is assumed that there will be nothing left to reflect 83 years of aviation history on this site. ESY900 Archaeological A limited number of archaeological features recorded included Y Watching Brief at a large dumping pit and several ceramic land drains. An old Bawtry Road tarmac road surface may relate to the former airfield. A series Quality Control Bus of dumping pits were of 20th- or late 19th-century date. A Corridor, number of ditches may relate to the same phase of activity. Doncaster, South Three sherds of late medieval/early post-medieval pottery Yorkshire were found within a shallow ditch. A similar feature may also belong to this period but produced no datable evidence.
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY5241 The Dome, Doncaster Leisure Centre Y Y HSY5240 Potteric Carr Road, Doncaster Regenerated Scrubland Y HSY5266 St. Peter's primary school, Sandy Lane, School Y Doncaster HSY5273 Belle Vue Ground, Bawtry Road, Doncaster Sports Ground Y HSY5283 Lime Tree Avenue, Hyde Park, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y
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Allocation Reference: 255 Area (Ha): 28.98 Allocation Type: Housing/Employment NGR (centre): SE 6110 0648 Site Name: Former Hungerhill Business Park, Thorne Rd 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 2 events 2 records/6 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence Yes Yes Cartographic features of interest No Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a
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Allocation Reference: 255 Area (Ha): 28.98 Allocation Type: Housing/Employment NGR (centre): SE 6110 0648 Site Name: Former Hungerhill Business Park, Thorne Rd Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR does not record any findspots or monuments within the site. Two events are recorded within the site. The larger geophysical survey, covering most of the site, recorded probable Iron Age to Roman field system remains, and linear ditches were recorded during the evaluation trenches. A further geophysical survey in the southeast part of the site recorded linear anomalies that did not correspond with cropmarks or map evidence and may be natural features. Two findspots are recorded within the buffer zone: a Neolithic flint scraper and an iron axe head of unknown date. Five further events are recorded in the buffer: two geophysical surveys and two trial trench evaluations at the Kirk Sandall Industrial Estate to the northwest of the site, which identified limited archaeological remains relating to probable Iron Age to Roman field boundaries, and a geophysical survey to the southeast, which also identified probable field boundaries of the same period. 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 recorded Iron Age to Roman field boundary ditches, a trackway and possible enclosures within the site, concentrated at the eastern and northern sides. Similar features are also recorded within the buffer, some having been built over since the photos were taken. The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as Agglomerated Fields, with partial legibility of the Parliamentary Enclosure fields dating to 1746. Character zones within the buffer are defined as Agglomerated Fields, Other Industry, School, Villas/Detached Housing, Semi-detached Housing, Planned Estate (Social Housing), Playing Field/Recreation Ground, Glassworks and Business Park. The most recent imagery shows the site as three fields in rough pasture and scrub vegetation. The southwest boundary is formed by a disused railway line, the eastern boundary by Thorne Road, the northwest boundary by Barnby Dun Road and the northern boundary by the Boulevard and Hungerhill Lane. Two short roads, Herald Road and Bowes Road, are shown at the southern end of the site. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The site was shown as fields on the 1854 OS map. The northern part of the site was labelled ‘Hunger Hill’ at that date and was separated from the rest of the site by Hunger Hill Lane. Dodge Dike and Carr Drain crossed the site in 1854. Several field boundaries had been amalgamated by 1930, with further amalgamation by 1956. Carr Drain was marked in the northern part of the site on the 1969 OS map. Other than the amalgamation of field boundaries, no changes were shown within the site on the 1982 OS map. Various features were marked within the buffer zone on the 1854 OS map, including fields, part of the estate of Streetthorpe Hall, a manor house with orchards, several plantations, Shepherd’s House, Mere Dike, Shaw Wood, Armthorpe Shaw, Corporation Shaw, Hag Wood, Moor Shoot Plantation, Sandall Brick and Tile Yard, the Corporation Arms public house, a gravel pit, a ‘water engine’, Thorn Lane and Clay Lane. Sandall Cottages were shown on the 1892 OS map, with kennels shown at Shepherd’s House in 1906. Streethorpe Hall had been renamed ‘Edenthorpe Hall’ by that date. The South Yorkshire Joint Railway was shown within the buffer on the 1930 OS map, forming the western boundary of the site. Housing development had also taken place by that date to the north of the site and to the south of the A18. Further housing had been constructed by 1956 and 1967, with the A630, Christ Church Nurseries, schools, playing fields and Dodge Dike marked on the 1980 map. Hungerhill School and its playing fields and tennis courts were shown in 1982 OS map, while the Shaw Lane Industrial Estate had been created by 1993 map. Survival: The site has been in agricultural use since at least 1854, and recent arable cultivation may have caused some truncation of sub-surface deposits, though below the plough zone, the potential for the preservation of buried archaeology is likely to be moderate to high. Cropmark features of Iron Age to Roman fields, trackways and a
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possible enclosure have been recorded within the site, and further remains not recorded as cropmarks could survive across the site. Further investigations: Further archaeological investigation is likely to be required if the site is brought forward for development. Significance: Remains associated with Iron Age to Roman field systems and associated settlement could be of Local to Regional archaeological significance depending on their extent, nature and condition.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: Twenty-first-century aerial photographs show the site as fields in 2002-2005 and rough grassland in 2007-2015. Two short roads are shown within the southern edge of the site, suggesting planned development in this area. Lidar data shows the Carr Drain running through the site, and several faint linear features probably marking removed post-medieval field boundaries. The roads at the south end of the site are shown. Photograph references: Google Earth: 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008 and 2009. Bing Maps: 2015. Lidar data files SE6006, SE6106 DTM 1m.
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 02833/01 Iron Axe Head of Iron axe head found adjacent to Barnby Dun Road. Y Unknown Date found near Barnby Dun Road, Edenthorpe 05649 Unstratified A flint scraper of Neolithic or Bronze Age date was recovered Y Neolithic to Bronze from the ploughsoil during trial trenching at Kirk Sandall Age flint scraper, Industrial Estate in 2014. Sandall Stones Road, Kirk Sandall ESY319 Geophysical Survey Geophysical survey detected a number of faint linear, Y of Land off curvilinear and pit-type anomalies. However, the survey Doncaster Road evidence does not correspond with the aerial photograph evidence, which could suggest that the features have been destroyed since the aerial photographs were taken. ESY474 Archaeological Geophysical survey results indicated the presence of linear Y Evaluation on Land anomalies probably caused by agricultural activity with some off Hungerhill Lane representing infilled ditches. Cropmarks originally identified in (Total Fitness Site) the desk based assessment are interpreted as forming a brickwork field system and some anomalies correspond with these cropmarks. A possible trapezoidal enclosure was not identified on aerial photograph cropmarks. Trial trenching revealed a number of linear features. ESY475 Archaeological In 2002 a second programme of geophysical survey was Y Y Evaluation of land conducted on land off Hungerhill Lane covering over 14 off Hungerhill Lane hectares. This revealed several linear anomalies that did not correspond with cropmark evidence or old field boundaries. It is possible that they may be natural features. ESY502 Geophysical Survey In August 2006 a geophysical survey was undertaken on land Y on Land at Kirk at the Kirk Sandall Industrial Estate. No anomalies of likely Sandall Industrial
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Estate archaeological origin were detected. ESY1246 Gradiometer Gradiometer survey on 25 hectares of agricultural land to the Y survey at Grange northeast of Doncaster. Former field boundaries and ridge and Farm, Doncaster furrow earthworks were identified. Also a number of probable pits and ditches of archaeological origin. Several possible pit clusters were identified. ESY1461 Geophysical survey Geophysical survey identified features likely to have been Y at Sandall Stones associated with ridge and furrow agricultural regimes, along Road with the route of a drain known from historic mapping. Other anomalies were likely due to buried ferrous material and other modern features. ESY1462 Trial trenching at 12 trenches were excavated at Kirk Sandall Industrial Estate. Y Kirk Sandall Only one trench contained archaeology, this comprising a Industrial Estate, ditch, a gully and an irregularly shaped feature. The area round Sandall Stones this trench was enlarged and a longer stretch of the ditch Road recorded. No artefacts were recovered from the features, and a small number of unstratified finds were recovered from the ploughsoil. It is likely that the ditch represents an Iron Age to Romano-British field boundary.
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY4763 Hungerhill, Kirk Sandall, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y Y HSY4525 Land between Edenthorpe and Armthorpe, Agglomerated fields Y Doncaster HSY4759 Kirk Sandall Industrial Estate (South of Railway Other Industry Y Line), Doncaster HSY4760 Hungerhill School, Kirk Sandall, Doncaster School Y HSY4765 Thorne Road Edenthorpe (south east side), Villas/ Detached Housing Y Doncaster HSY4771 Infill housing between the A630 and Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y Edenthorpe, Doncaster HSY4773 Mid twentieth century estate housing, Kirk Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y Sandall, Doncaster HSY4774 Sunnyside, Kirk Sandall, Doncaster Semi-Detached Housing Y HSY4775 Recreation Ground, Sunnyside, Doncaster Playing Fields/ Recreation ground Y HSY5348 St. Aiden's, Wilberforce Road, Doncaster School Y HSY5350 Jefferson Avenue, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y HSY5352 Clay Lane, Long Sandall, Doncaster Glassworks Y HSY5434 Shaw lane industrial estate Business Park Y
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Allocation Reference: 256 Area (Ha): 13.14 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SK 4999 9990 Site Name: Land south of canal, opposite Earth Centre 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 - 7 records, 2 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence Yes Yes Cartographic features of interest Yes Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Partial n/a
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Allocation Reference: 256 Area (Ha): 13.14 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SK 4999 9990 Site Name: Land south of canal, opposite Earth Centre Settlement: Conisbrough
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR does not record any monuments or findspots within the site. Two monuments, five findspots and two events are recorded in the buffer zone. These comprise finds of Mesolithic and Neolithic flints, Romano-British pottery and coins, though two of the findspots are imprecisely located and likely to be outside the buffer area. The monuments relate to the sites of the Providence Glass Works to the immediate east of the site, and the Denaby Main Pottery at the southwest edge of the buffer. The two events both relate to investigations at the pottery, which uncovered remains associated with the kilns and pottery buildings, as well as evidence for its later reuse as a bone works. No listed buildings are recorded within the site. One Grade II listed building is recorded within the buffer zone, a milepost on Denaby Road. Development within the site would not impact on the setting of the milepost. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project and Lidar record a linear earthwork bank in the western part of the site, possibly associated with landscaping following the demolition of the former colliery site. Second World War air raid shelters were recorded in the buffer zone. The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the majority of the site as Modern Regenerated Scrubland on the site of the former Denaby Main Colliery, which included the site of pit head buildings. The eastern edge of the site is recorded as Regenerated Scrubland on the site of the former Providence Glass Works. Within the buffer, landscape character types include modern residential, commercial, educational, leisure and industrial 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. An area of scrubland to the southeast of the site is on the site of former housing. The site is currently shown as open waste ground with regenerated scrub. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: No features were shown within the site on Thomas Jefferys’ 1771 map of Yorkshire or Christopher Greenwood’s 1817 map of the county. Drains were shown running across the site on the 1841 Ordnance Survey map. While shown as open land in 1854, the site was dominated by structures and railway sidings associated with the Denaby Main Colliery by 1892. A long range of coke ovens were shown within the western side of the site at that date, with colliery buildings to the west and a gasometer close to the river at the central part of the site. Railway lines and sidings occupied much of the land between the river and the road, up to the edge of the wide meander at the eastern end of the site. This block of land was shown as fields at that date, ‘liable to flooding’, with a small portion of the eastern edge being part of the land associated with the Providence Glass Works. By 1903, the colliery had developed further, with new buildings at the western end of the site. The coke ovens had been removed, but two mine shafts were shown within this part of the site. The railway lines and sidings had extended into the eastern end, with a spoil heap was shown in the eastern meander. The colliery buildings and railways continued to develop and change up to the mid-20th century, with the majority removed following the mine’s closure in 1968. A wagon repair shop was shown within the site in 1972. The majority of the features within the site had been cleared by 1990. Within the buffer zone, Strafforth Sands was the site of a crossing over the River Don during the medieval period and may have been the site of meetings of the Strafforth wapentake court. A mill and an engine were marked on Jefferys’ 1771 map, with the engine being used for draining water from a coal mine at what became Engine House Farm. The Mexborough New Cut, with Mexborough Low Lock, and the Tinsley and Doncaster Trust turnpike road were shown on the 1841 OS map, while the South Yorkshire, Doncaster & Goole railway line had been constructed by 1854. Denaby Main Colliery was sunk in 1863. Kilner jars were being manufactured at the Providence Glass Works to the east of the site by 1892, with miners’ houses, a school, Methodist chapels, a brick yard and Mexborough Bone Mills also within the buffer zone at that date. The bone mills were disused by 1902. Allotments, a sewage works and further housing had been constructed by 1930. Denaby Main closed in 1968, by
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which time spoil heaps and cooling towers were shown within the buffer zone. Spoil heaps remained extant in the north-east part of the buffer zone in 1980. These had been cleared by 1990. Survival: The extent of colliery development within the site in the late 19th to mid-20th centuries suggests that the potential for the survival of earlier features is low. There is a high potential for the survival of sub-surface features associated with the colliery, including capped mine shafts, as well as the coke ovens and the gasometers, which are likely to have had substantial sub-surface elements. There is also the potential for the survival of remains associated with other colliery buildings and railway infrastructure within the site, though the extent of removal of footings and trackbeds during the clearance of the site is not known. Further investigations: Further archaeological investigations may be required if the site is allocated for development. Significance: The significance of surviving sub-surface features associated with Denaby Main Colliery within the site will depend on their extent of preservation and condition. The majority of the features shown on historic mapping are likely to be considered to be of Local significance, though well-preserved remains of the 19th-century coke ovens could be of Regional significance.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: Aerial photographs show the majority of the site as scrub crossed by several informal tracks in 2003. Rough access roads had been created through the site by 2008. These appear to have been established in association with redevelopment at the former site of the Providence Glass Works to the east. Belts of trees are shown along edges of site with some larger stands in the river meanders. Partial Lidar coverage of the site shows a linear embankment along the southern end of the site towards its eastern end; there are otherwise no significant visible features. Photograph references: Google Earth coverage, 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009 & 2015. Lidar files SK SK4999, SK5099.
Statutory Designations Reference Name Designation/ Site? Buffer? ID Grade 1151532 Milepost approximately 70 metres to west of junction with Grade II listed Y Denaby Lane building
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 0661/01 Roman Coin Hoard, Second to Third Century Roman Coin Hoard, Cadeby. 1 now Y Cadeby lost from Trajan to Maximinus thrax. All save 1 stolen from Doncaster Museum in 1954. 28 denarii from railway cutting west of Rattles Hill Plantation. Coins including one of Severus Alexander, in Doncaster Museum 02393/01 Mesolithic Flint Mesolithic flint finds found on field surface above rock face Y Finds, Cadeby after ploughing. Interpreted as possible rock shelter. 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 number of microliths'.
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The Ings, Doncaster 02618/01 ?Neolithic Leaf Two flint leaf shaped arrowheads [possibly of Neolithic date Y Shaped Flint found on] Marr Grange Holt (north of). Arrowhead Finds, Marr 03308/01 Roman Coin found Roman follis of Maxentius, 308 AD Rome mint. Y in Doncaster 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. 04408/01 Denaby Main Site of Denaby Main colliery. Y Colliery ESY59 Archaeological In 2000 an archaeological evaluation undertaken at Denaby Y Evaluation at Main Pottery site identified the probable remains of a late Denaby Main 19th-century bone mill. A6023 Diversion ESY60 Excavation of Open-area excavation in 2001 identified the remains of the Y Denaby Main mid-19th-century Denaby Pottery works, including buildings, 4 Pottery Works kilns, pottery and kiln furniture. Evidence was also found for the site’s conversion into a bone works.
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY5377 Undeveloped site of Denaby Main Colliery, Modern Regenerated Scrubland Y Y Doncaster HSY5383 Site of Providence Glassworks, Conisbrough, Modern Regenerated Scrubland Y Y Doncaster HSY4280 The Earth Centre (Former Cadeby Colliery), Modern Tourist Attraction Y Conisborough, Doncaster HSY4558 The Ings, Denaby / Mexborough, Doncaster Modern Reclaimed Coal Mine Y HSY5313 Dearne Valley Leisure Centre, Denaby Main, Modern Leisure Centre Y Doncaster HSY5316 Cliff View (former western housing area), Modern Planned Estate (Social Denaby Main, Doncaster Housing) HSY5321 Denaby Lane Industrial Estate, Denaby Main, Modern Other Industry Doncaster HSY5363 Denaby Main East, Doncaster Modern Planned Estate (Social Housing) HSY5364 School and Nursing Home, Denaby Main, Modern School Doncaster HSY5365 Denaby Main Primary School, Denaby Main, Modern School Doncaster HSY5366 Denaby Main Park, Denaby Main, Doncaster Modern Public Park HSY5384 Former housing area around site of Providence Modern Regenerated Scrubland Glassworks, Conisbrough, Doncaster HSY5423 Church Road, Denaby Main, Doncaster Modern Semi-Detached Housing HSY5424 Commercial area, Denaby Main, Doncaster Modern Commercial Core- Suburban
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Allocation Reference: 257 Area (Ha): 4.06 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 5691 0372 Site Name: Marshgate, Doncaster Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area
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 - 2 SMR record/event 1 event 14 records/8 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest Yes Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Extensive n/a
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Allocation Reference: 257 Area (Ha): 4.06 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 5691 0372 Site Name: Marshgate, Doncaster Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR records one event within the site and part of the buffer: a watching brief carried out as part of the Doncaster North Bridge relief road project covered part of the northeast edge of the site as well as a much wider area and recovered Roman ceramic, late medieval to early post medieval remains, 18th-century ceramics; and 18th/19th century burials; however, none of these remains appear to have been found within the site itself. There are 14 monuments and seven events recorded within the buffer. Monuments comprise the route of a Roman road leading into Doncaster; medieval features which include the site of St Ancres’ chapel and St Edmunds Hospital, the site of a medieval motte and bailey which lies under St Georges Church, the site of a medieval Franciscan friary at St Marys Gate, a corn mill and a stone cross, all of which are no longer extant. Post medieval features comprise St Marys Bridge Chapel, which was lost by 1828; Friars Bridge of which there are no remains; Bentley and Arksey road bridge; and the site of an 18th-century water works. The events within the buffer included archaeological investigation for the Doncaster Interchange project, which revealed part of the medieval town ditch, post -medieval boundary features and the remains of a late 18th- century water-driven pumping mill, weir and stone revetted bank of the River Cheswold. Excavation trenches and hand auguring conducted as part of the Greyfriars Road evaluation suggested that archaeological deposits were present at a depth of 6.1 to 7.3m OD. Geoarchaeological evaluation west of Church View suggested that the site the site retains good potential for archaeological remains for the Roman period and very good potential for medieval and post-medieval remains. Further excavation revealed part of the line of the Roman fort, a part of the large Norman castle ditch, 2m of undisturbed Roman and medieval stratigraphy, a layer of 2nd century AD pottery suggesting the presence of a Roman building in the vicinity, cobbled surfaces associated with Roman pottery, a medieval pottery kiln which would have produced Hallgate type pottery, and evidence of metal working. There are no Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings within the site. Two grade II listed buildings are situated within the buffer: a water tower at the former British Rail works and a road bridge immediately to the south of the junction with Hunt Lane. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project recorded evidence of post medieval ridge and furrow in the northern and south-western parts of the buffer. Directly southwest of the site is an area owned by British Rail recorded as Historic Landfill. The Historic Landscape Characterisation records the northeast part of the site as commercial land which was potentially the medieval suburb of Marsh Gate. It lies within the area of a former island probably created by the digging of the ‘Mill Dyke’ section of the river Don and the River Cheswold. The eastern side of the area comprised burgage plots which followed the course of the Roman road. The eastern series was the first to be lost as a result of the construction of the North Bridge Road section of the A1 through the middle of its plots. This side of North Gate Road was redeveloped for retail use in the 1990s. The western side appears to have been cleared and redeveloped for light industrial and commercial use in the mid-20th century. The southwest part of the site is also commercial land and this area was progressively improved through the late 19th and early 20th centuries for light industrial and residential uses. Residential terraces within this area appear to have been cleared in favour of the current large warehouses between 1972 and 1982. The character of the buffer surrounding the majority of the site is recorded as areas used for industrial purposes such as depots and warehousing, and communications in the form of train sidings and Doncaster Train Station. In the far north is a traveller community site. In the southwest of the buffer stands Marshgate Prison, a modern prison opened in June 1994. Prior to this, the area was a power station. The site is currently a modern retail/light industrial park bounded to the northeast by Northbridge Road, to the northwest and southwest by the River Cheswold and to the southeast by the River Don Navigation.
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Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The 1852 OS map shows the site within an area of enclosed fields to the south of North Bridge Road. The layout of the medieval burgage plots of Marsh Gate could be seen to the north of the road and St Andrews Church was located on the north-western edge of the site. By 1894 the former fields had been divided into small plots, Mill Street had been constructed and rows of houses, a church and industrial structures built. The northwest area of the site was known as Hirst’s Buildings and the southern part of the site was occupied by saw mills with associated timber yard. The 1902 map depicted an infant’s school within the centre of the site, with the rest of the site being used mainly for industrial purposes with a small amount of residential housing and St Andrew’s Church lining the southern side of North Bridge Road. By 1930 additional buildings had been erected within the northwest part of the site, and this area housed a joinery works and iron foundry. Residential housing had expanded in the northern area and two pubs had been built to serve the local community. The area had become more dominated by industry by 1961, and by 1980 many the remaining residential buildings have been replaced by industrial premises. By 1992, all traces of residential buildings had gone, as had the mill, being replaced by the large warehouses that exist today. Survival: Since the late 19th century this site has been subject to development, including terraced housing, a school and several works, with the majority replaced by more recent light industrial buildings. The development is likely to have truncated or destroyed earlier archaeological remains, but the potential for the survival of later 19th- and early 20th-century remains is considered to be moderate to high depending on the extent of more recent disturbance. Further investigations: Further archaeological investigation may be required if this site is brought forward for development. Significance: Remains associated with later 19th- and early 20th-century housing and works could be considered to be of Local archaeological significance. Note: Site 257 covers mainly the same area as Site 093.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: The 2002-2015 aerial photography shows the area to be an industrial concreted site boarded to the north east by North Bridge Road with the remainder boarded by the rivers Don and Cheswold. A number of large and smaller industrial warehousing and retail units currently stand on the site with the roads of Marsh Gate running between them. Access can be gained to the site from North Bridge Road or via a bridge across the River Cheswold in the south west. No archaeological features or anomalies can be seen on LiDAR data. Photograph references: Google Earth: 2002. 2003, 2008, 2009, 2015. LiDAR tile SE5603 DTM 1m.
Statutory Designations Reference Name Designation/ Site? Buffer? ID Grade 1151432 Water Tower at former BR Works II Y 1191852 Road bridge immediately to south of junction with Hunt Lane II Y
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SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 00416/01 St Mary's Gateway - no remains Y Gate, Doncaster 00417/01 Mill Cross, Erected c1250 and taken down in 1765 Y site of a medieval stone cross 00418/01 Site of Friary founded pre 1284 - no remains Y medieval Franciscan Friary, Doncaster 00419/01 St Mary's Standing in early 18th century, but no trace in 1828. Perhaps "bridge Y Chapel on the chapel" bridge, Doncaster 00419/02 St Mary's Bridge Y Bridge, Doncaster 00424/01 Friar's Bridge, Bridge rebuilt 1740 - no remains Y Doncaster 00425/01 Site of Ancres Fragments of medieval cross and foundations found, probably marks Y Chapel, site of chapel Sprotbrough 00425/02 St Edmund's Hospital c.1271 - c.1547 Y Hospital, Doncaster 00456/01 Doncaster The site of a motte and bailey castle dating to the medieval period. Y Castle The site is no longer visible and lies under St George's church, Doncaster 02855/01 Industrial Road bridge 1832-33 (altered?) with twin span segmental arches. Y Period Road Bridge, Bentley with Arksey 03623/01 Medieval A pre-Norman origin seems likely as most communities of any Y Corn Mill, standing (such as Doncaster) had a water mill by the 10th or 11th north end of century. The mill and probably the mill race was enlarged several Marsh Gate, times as by 1279 there were 4 mills. Doncaster 03946/01 Frenchgate Hallgate-type pottery kiln with evidence for metalworking. These Y Medieval finds suggest that the area contained backyards of medieval Pottery Kiln, tenements. Doncaster 05016 Roman Road - The course of the Roman road through Doncaster was suggested to Y Hall Gate, be along this route by plan form analysis. This has been confirmed in High Street, one location on Hall Gate. The cobbled road continued to be used French Gate, into the Medieval period, evidenced by Late Saxon and 13th century Doncaster pottery in the final phases of the surface. Excavations at 8-10 High Street also identified the road. 05027 18th Century Site of an 18th century water works that employed a water powered Y Water Works pumping mill and later steam engine
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ESY861 Archaeologica Trial trenching revealed a number of archaeological features Y l Evaluation at including the Medieval town ditch, medieval pits, post-medieval the Proposed boundary features and the remains of a late 18th century water- Interchange driven pumping mill. The pump was demolished in the mid 20th Site, century, to make way for the construction of the North Bus Station Doncaster and Car Park. The excavations also revealed the bank-side of the River Cheswold, adjacent to the pump. ESY863 Archaeologica A number of archaeological features were revealed. These included Y l Mitigation the medieval town ditch, post -medieval boundary features and the (Phase III) at remains of a late 18th century water-driven pumping mill, weir and Doncaster stone reverted bank of the River Cheswold. The pumping mill was Interchange, demolished in the mid 20th century, to make way for the South construction of the North Bus Station and Car Park. Yorkshire ESY881 Doncaster The archaeological works were undertaken in accordance with the Y Y North Bridge Gifford document Doncaster North Bridge project Identified Relief Road Archaeological Works Design for Construction. A watching brief was carried out across this area which recovered Roman ceramic; late med to early PM remains; 18th-century ceramics; PM ditch; 18th- to 19th-century burials ESY897 A Geo- Despite having seen repeated development since the 19th century, Y Archaeologica the site retains good potential for archaeological remains for the l Evaluation at Roman period and very good potential for medieval and post- The Tesco medieval remains. No deposits of proven archaeological significance Store, Church were recorded by the investigation. View, Doncaster, South Yorkshire ESY1029 Greyfriars Trenches and hand auguring. Auguring suggests further Y Road archaeological deposits at a depth of 6.1 to 7.3mOD. Evaluation ESY1030 Greyfriars Watch brief on piling Y Road Doncaster Watching Brief on Piling ESY1034 Northbridge Bore holes drilled for palaeoenvironmental sampling Y Relief Road Pollen Coring ESY1036 Tesco Six trenches were excavated across the area. The northern most Y Supermarket, trench cut across the edge of the former course of the River West of Cheswold, and the area around it was heavily disturbed by Victorian Church View cellars and foundations. Features identified were part of the line of the Roman fort, a part of the large Norman castle ditch, 2m of undisturbed Roman and medieval stratigraphy, a layer of 2nd century pottery suggesting the presence of a Roman building in the vicinity. The three trenches on the north-western side of the site indicated marshland through the Roman period and most of the medieval period. Two ditches found on the site were sealed by successive cobbled surfaces, associated with Roman pottery, and these may correspond to the line of the probable vicus ditches previously discovered at St Sepulchre Gate. A medieval pottery kiln was identified, which would have produced Hallgate type pottery, and there was also evidence of metal working
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SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY5867 North Gate Road (Marsh Gate Suburb area), Retail Park Y Y Doncaster HSY5940 Large Warehouses south west of Marsh Gate, Commercial Core-Suburban Y Y Doncaster. HSY5090 Interchange at south end of York Road, Motorway and Trunk Road Y Doncaster Junctions HSY5717 Plant Works, Doncaster Other Industry Y HSY5723 Marshgate Prison, Doncaster Prison Y HSY5798 Superstore, (former French Gate area), North Shopping Centre Y Bridge Road, Doncaster HSY5799 Frenchgate Interchange, Doncaster Bus Depot Y HSY5800 Frenchgate Junction, Doncaster Ring Road / Bypass Y HSY5832 Superstore, North Bridge Road, Doncaster Shopping Centre Y HSY5860 Goods Yard, Friars Gate, Doncaster Train Depot/ Sidings Y HSY5866 Corporation Yard, Doncaster Municipal Depot Y HSY5868 Site of Franciscan Friary, Doncaster Other Industry Y HSY5915 Doncaster Station, Doncaster Train Station Y HSY5938 Caravan Site, Marsh Gate, Doncaster Romany or other Traveller Y Community site HSY5939 Industrial units around Power Station Road, Other Industry Y Doncaster HSY5941 Site of Town Mill / St Mary's Chapel, Doncaster Ring Road / Bypass Y
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Allocation Reference: 259 Area (Ha): 2.06 Allocation Type: Employment NGR (centre): SE 5934 0121 Site Name: Plot 4A Lakeside, Carolina Way 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 - 2 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest No Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Unknown n/a
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Allocation Reference: 259 Area (Ha): 2.06 Allocation Type: Employment NGR (centre): SE 5934 0121 Site Name: Plot 4A Lakeside, Carolina Way Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area
Site assessment Known assets/character: There are no SMR records within the site itself. Within the buffer zone, two events exist to the south of the site, although no archaeological remains were identified. 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 external boundary of a 20th century airfield running through the site on a north-west to south-east alignment. At the eastern end of the buffer zone, significant traces of Iron Age/Romano-British field boundaries and enclosures are recorded. Evidence of post-medieval ridge and furrow has also been recorded at the eastern and southern end of the buffer zone. A large area of Historic Landfill is recorded within the buffer zone and crossing the eastern part of the site, named Sandy Lane. A further area is recorded at the northwest tip of the buffer, named Doncaster Airport Tip. Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and the western end of the buffer zone as a business park, dating to the mid to late 1990s and containing a mix of industrial and business premises. Before this, the area consisted of agricultural land. The original pattern of enclosures was created by a programme of drainage on Doncaster Carr, which resulted in a series of straight and regular fields aligned on the drainage ditches. Legibility of this former landscape is invisible. The northern and eastern ends of the buffer zone are characterised by an artificial lake, with woodland and enclosed land at the southern end of the buffer zone. The site currently comprises a single parcel of scrubland, bounded on the southern side by Carolina Way. To the immediate north is an industrial building. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: In 1854 the site was located within a group of fields, to the east of the site collectively labelled High Ellers Carr, and to the west Doncaster Carr. A number of drains were present on the site, notably Childer’s Drain on a north- south alignment through the centre of the site, and Lady Bank Drain on a northwest to southeast alignment. Many drain and field boundaries to the north and east of the site had been removed by the 1955 map. By 1980, this area was marked as Doncaster Airport, which extended into the north-eastern end of the site. The airport is thought to have been constructed in 1934 and is known to have been in use during WWII, but was not depicted on maps during this period; it is not until 1955 that any change was shown in the area, and the airport itself was not labelled as such until 1977 s. During the war the airport, which had a grass runway, housed a Ministry of Aircraft Production factory where Westland Lysander reconnaissance planes were built. It is understood that the airport later reverted to a civilian aerodrome, until it was closed in 1992. There was no change on the site on the 1993 map. On the 1854 map, the area surrounding the site comprised straight and regular fields with a high proportion of the field boundaries marked as drainage. By 1894 a small nursery had been established to the west of the site. By 1930, an additional branch of the London and North Eastern Railway, which was located outside of the buffer zone to the south of the site, had been added. The new branch was named Low Ellers Curve and extended into the southern part of the buffer zone. Many of the field boundaries and drains had been removed to the north and east of the site on the 1955 map, marking the area of Doncaster Airport, although the area is not labelled as such until 1977 OS maps. The 1972 map depicted a tip to the northwest of the site. The 1980 OS map marked the airport to the north of the site. By 1980 the A6182 had been constructed to the west of the site and the tip to the north appeared to have been infilled. There was little change on the 1993 OS map. Survival: The site was fields in 1854, and part falls within the area of an airfield operating from the mid- to late 20th century. The eastern part of the site is recorded as having been subject to landfill activity, but no cartographic or photographic evidence for this has been found. As such, the potential for the survival of below-ground heritage
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assets is currently unknown, and further information on the extent of landfill activity is required. 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 current site boundaries were established sometime between 1993 and 2002, with the construction of an industrial estate and associated infrastructure around the site. The majority of the site was in use as an open-air car park in 2002, presumably associated with the large industrial type structure that had been constructed immediately outside the northern site boundary. By 2003 the car park had been removed and the land had begun to regenerate. Recent 2015 aerial photographs and Street View images show the site to currently comprise scrub wasteland. Within the buffer zone, significant change had occurred to the north of the site by 2002. All traces of the airport had been removed, with a large lake and regenerated land in the area. To the west, a large industrial estate had been established. No earthworks of archaeological origin were identified within Lidar data for the site. Photograph references: Google Earth images 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2015. Google Street View images 2015. Lidar data tile SE5901 DTM 1m. RAF/CPE/UK/1880 0013 06-Dec-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/2563 4493 28-Mar-1948, RAF/58/1891 F21 0090 14-Oct- 1955, MAL/71048 0042 03-May-1971, MAL/77017 0095 28-Jun-1977, OS/78052 0269 25-May-1978, OS/92256 0232 20-Jul-1992.
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID ESY906 Report on Although no evidence for archaeological remains is apparent Y Geophysical Survey with the development area, the site lies within a broad area of at Doncaster archaeological interest. In particular, a complex of cropmarks Airport to the south suggests prehistoric and Romano-British field system which might extend into the development area. ESY907 Archaeological Three areas of interest were identified within the Y Evaluation at development site. It was specified that a geophysical survey Doncaster Leisure should be carried out over two of these areas, to be followed and Business Park by trial trenching dependant on the results. The third area constrains surviving peat deposits and the brief required the excavation of trial trench for the collection of palaeo- environmental samples. The geophysical survey showed no archaeology within area B and number of small features of potentially archaeological features within area. The following is a proposal for limited excavation within area A as well as the collection of samples from area C.
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SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY5239 Doncaster Carr, Doncaster Business Park Y Y HSY4640 Potteric Carr, Doncaster Wet Wood Y HSY4641 Bessacarr Lane, Doncaster Drained Wetland Y HSY5238 Lakeside Boulevard, Doncaster Artificial Lake Y HSY5240 Potteric Carr Road, Doncaster Regenerated Scrubland Y HSY5254 White Rose Way, Doncaster Retail Park Y
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Allocation Reference: 260 Area (Ha): 2.40 Allocation Type: Employment NGR (centre): SE 5932 0112 Site Name: Plot 4B Lakeside, Carolina Way 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 event 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: 260 Area (Ha): 2.40 Allocation Type: Employment NGR (centre): SE 5932 0112 Site Name: Plot 4B Lakeside, Carolina Way Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area
Site assessment Known assets/character: There are no SMR records within the site itself. One event is recorded in the site that is part of a larger scheme of works, the majority of which took place outside of the site and the buffer zone, to the northeast. It is unclear which aspect of the works took place within the site, however little of archaeological interest was recorded at either location. Within the buffer zone, one further event exists, located to the east of the site, although no archaeological remains were identified. There are no Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings recorded within the site or the buffer zone. One area of Historic Landfill covers the eastern end of the site and extends into the buffer zone, named Sandy Lane. No further information is given for this record. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project records the external boundary of a 20th century airfield running through the site on a north-west to south-east alignment. At the eastern end of the buffer zone, significant traces of Iron Age to Romano-British field boundaries and enclosures are recorded. Evidence of post-medieval ridge and furrow has also been recorded at the eastern and southern ends of the buffer zone. Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and much of the northern and western ends of the buffer zone as a business park, dating to the mid to late 1990s and containing a mix of industrial and business premises. Before this, the area consisted of agricultural land. The original pattern of enclosures was created by a programme of drainage on Doncaster Carr, which resulted in a series of straight and regular fields aligned on the drainage ditches. Legibility of this former landscape is invisible. Additional character areas within the buffer zone include drained wetland, a retail park and a train depot. The site currently comprises a single parcel of scrubland, bounded on the northern side by Carolina Way. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: In 1854 the site was part of a group of fields, which were regular and straight, and many of the field boundaries are marked as drains. To the east of the site these fields were collectively named High Ellers Carr, and to the west Doncaster Carr. A number of drains were present on the site, notably Childer’s Drain on a north-south alignment through the centre of the site, and Lady Bank Drain on a northwest to southeast alignment. By 1955 features thought to be associated with Doncaster Airport were located at the very north-eastern end of the site. The airport is thought to have been constructed in 1934 and is known to have been in use during WWII, but is not depicted on maps during this period; it is not until 1955 that any change is shown in the area, and the airport itself is not labelled as such until 1977 OS maps. During the war the airport, which had a grass runway, housed a Ministry of Aircraft Production factory where Westland Lysander reconnaissance planes were built. It is understood that the airport later reverted to a civilian aerodrome, until it was closed in 1992. Lady Bank Drain had been realigned by 1960, and ran east-west through the southern end of the site. There is no change on the site on the 1993 map. On the 1854 map, the area surrounding the site comprised straight and regular fields with a high proportion of the field boundaries marked as drainage. A bank, named Black Bank, was located to the west of the site. The Great Northern Railway was already extant at the southern end of the buffer zone, aligned approximately east- west. By 1894 a small nursery had been established to the north-west of the site. By 1930, an additional branch of the Great Northern Railway (by this time named the London and North Eastern Railway) had been added, named Low Ellers Curve. Many of the field boundaries and drains had been removed to the north and east of the site on the 1955 map, marking the area of Doncaster Airport, although the area is not labelled as such until 1977 OS maps. The 1976 Russian map marks an airport to the north of the site. By 1972 a tip is marked to the north- west of the site. By 1980 the A6182, to the west of the site, had been constructed, and the tip to the north appears to have been infilled. There is little change on the 1993 OS map.
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Survival: The site was fields in 1854, with the eastern end falling within the boundary of an airfield from the mid 20th- century onwards. An area of landfill is recorded as covering the eastern part of the site, but no excavation or tipping activity is recorded on the historic mapping and the extent of disturbance cannot be clarified. As such, the potential for the survival of below-ground heritage assets is considered to be moderate on the basis of current information. 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 current site boundaries were established sometime between 1993 and 2002, with the construction of an industrial/commercial estate and associated infrastructure and drainage around the site. The site is currently undeveloped scrubland. Within the buffer zone, significant change had occurred to the north of the site by 2002. All traces of the airport had been removed, with a large lake and regenerated land in the area. To the west, a large industrial estate had been established. No heritage assets were identified within Lidar data for the site. Photograph references: Google Earth images 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2015. Google Street View images 2015. Lidar data tile SE5901 DTM 1m. RAF/CPE/UK/1880 0013 06-Dec-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/2563 4493 28-Mar-1948, RAF/58/1891 F21 0090 14-Oct- 1955, MAL/71048 0042 03-May-1971, MAL/77017 0095 28-Jun-1977, OS/78052 0269 25-May-1978, OS/92256 0232 20-Jul-1992.
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID ESY906 Report on Although no evidence for archaeological remains is apparent Y Geophysical Survey with the development area, the site lies within a broad area of at Doncaster archaeological interest. In particular, a complex of cropmarks Airport to the south suggests prehistoric and Romano-British field system which might extend into the development area. ESY907 Archaeological Three areas of interest were identified within the Y Evaluation at development site. It was specified that a geophysical survey Doncaster Leisure should be carried out over two of these areas, to be followed and Business Park by trial trenching dependant on the results. The third area constrains surviving peat deposits and the brief required the excavation of trial trench for the collection of paleo- environmental samples. The geophysical survey showed no archaeology within area B and number of small features of potentially archaeological features within area. The following is a proposal for limited excavation within area A as well as the collection of samples from area C.
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SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY5239 Doncaster Carr, Doncaster Business Park Y Y HSY4640 Potteric Carr, Doncaster Wet Wood Y HSY4641 Bessacarr Lane, Doncaster Drained Wetland Y HSY5254 White Rose Way, Doncaster Retail Park Y HSY5261 Railway Sidings, Doncaster Train Depot/ Sidings Y
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Allocation Reference: 261 Area (Ha): 2.00 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 5954 0127 Site Name: Plot 5A, Carolina Way/Lakeside Boulevard 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 event 1 event Cropmark/Lidar evidence Yes Yes Cartographic features of interest No Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a
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Allocation Reference: 261 Area (Ha): 2.00 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 5954 0127 Site Name: Plot 5A, Carolina Way/Lakeside Boulevard Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area
Site assessment Known assets/character: There are no SMR records within the site itself. One event is recorded within the buffer zone, at the southern end, comprising a geophysical survey. This survey appears to have taken place in two locations, and is also recorded separately at the northern end of the buffer zone. No archaeological remains were identified at either of the locations. There are no Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings recorded within the site or the buffer zone. One area of Historic Landfill exists within the site and extends throughout the north-western and south-eastern areas of the buffer zone, named Sandy Lane. No further information is given for this record. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project records Iron Age to Roman British enclosures and field boundaries within the eastern part of the site, and extending into the eastern, northern and southern areas of the buffer zone. The site is also recorded as located within the boundary of a 20th-century airfield. Evidence of post-medieval ridge and furrow has also been recorded at the eastern and southern ends of the buffer zone. Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the western half of the site and the western end of the buffer zone as a business park, dating to the mid to late 1990s and containing a mix of industrial and business premises. Before this, the area consisted of agricultural land. The original pattern of enclosures was created by a programme of drainage on Doncaster Carr, which resulted in a series of straight and regular fields aligned on the drainage ditches. Legibility of this former landscape is invisible. The eastern end of the site is characterised as an artificial lake, created as part of the leisure and business development of the surrounding area in the mid 1990s. It should be noted that the lake is actually situated outside out the site boundary. Prior to this, the site was occupied by fields with straight and regular edges indicative of parliamentary enclosure. It was part of High Ellers Common prior to enclosure in 1779 by Parliamentary Award. Legibility of the former landscape is invisible. Additional character areas within the buffer zone include drained wetland, woodland and modern housing. The site currently comprises a single parcel of scrubland, bounded by roads to the north and west, a lake to the east and a drain to the south. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: In 1854 the site was part of a group of fields, which were regular and straight, and many of the field boundaries are marked as drains. To the south of the site these fields were collectively named High Ellers Carr, and to the north they were named North Field. By 1939 some of the field boundaries within the site had been removed, particularly to the north, and on the 1955 map all of the field boundaries within and to the north of the site had been removed from the map. At this time the site was located at the very southern end of a large blank area on the map, known to be Doncaster Airport. The airport is thought to have been constructed in 1934 and is known to have been in use during WWII, although it is not labelled as an airport on OS maps until 1977. The 1976 Russian map also marks it. During the war the airport, which had a grass runway, housed a Ministry of Aircraft Production factory where Westland Lysander reconnaissance planes were built. It is understood that the airport later reverted to a civilian aerodrome, until it was closed in 1992. There is no change on the site on the 1993 map. On the 1854 map, the area surrounding the site comprised straight and regular fields with a high proportion of the field boundaries marked as drainage. Short Lane was present to the south-east of the site, with Hennings Lane to the east. Childer’s Drain was aligned approximately north-south to the west of the site, and a bank, named Black Bank, was located a little further to the west. The Great Northern Railway was already extant at the southern end of the buffer zone, aligned approximately east-west. By 1930, an additional branch of the Great Northern Railway (by this time named the London and North Eastern Railway) had been added, named Low Ellers Curve. Many of the field boundaries and drains had been removed to the north of the site on the 1938 map, with further removal of boundaries on the 1955 map, although the area is left as blank and unmarked on the maps.
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This is the area of Doncaster Airport, which is not labelled as such until 1977 OS maps. The 1976 Russian map also marks the airport. By 1972 a tip is marked to the north-west of the site. By 1980 the A6182, to the west of the site, had been constructed, and the tip to the north appears to have been infilled. There is little change on the 1993 OS map. Survival: The site was fields in 1779, and by the 1930s the site was located on the southern edge of Doncaster airport. It is not thought that any deep-ground disturbance has occurred on the site, although landscaping works associated with the construction of the adjacent lake may have had disturbed any shallow below-ground archaeological remains. The historic landfill data records the site as part of a former tip, though no evidence was found for this on historic mapping or aerial photographs. The potential for the survival of unrecorded below-ground archaeological remains is currently considered to be moderate, though further information on the historic landfill is required. An Iron Age to Roman enclosure and associated field boundaries have been recorded as cropmarks within the site; though these were not identified by geophysical survey, this could be due to geological reasons. Further investigations: Further investigation may be required if the site is brought forward for development. Significance: The Iron Age/Romano-British crop marks recorded within the site are part of a wider landscape of such features, which are collectively considered to be regionally significant. Associated remains within the site could be of Local to Regional archaeological significance depending on their extent, nature and condition.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: Twenty-first century aerial photographs show that the current site boundaries were established between 1993 and 2002, with the construction of roads, a lake and modern drainage. The site is currently undeveloped scrubland. No previously unidentified heritage assets have been identified on the site within the available Lidar data. Photograph references: Google Earth images 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2015. Google Street View images 2015. RAF/CPE/UK/1880 0013 06-Dec-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/2563 4493 28-Mar-1948, RAF/58/1891 F21 0090 14-Oct- 1955, MAL/71048 0042 03-May-1971, MAL/77017 0095 28-Jun-1977, OS/78052 0269 25-May-1978, OS/92256 0232 20-Jul-1992.
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID ESY906 Report on Although no evidence for archaeological remains is apparent Y Y Geophysical Survey with the development area, the site lies within a broad area of at Doncaster archaeological interest. In particular, a complex of cropmarks Airport to the south suggests prehistoric and Romano-British field system which might extend into the development area.
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SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY5238 Lakeside Boulevard, Doncaster Artificial Lake Y Y HSY5239 Doncaster Carr, Doncaster Business Park Y Y HSY4640 Potteric Carr, Doncaster Wet Wood Y HSY4641 Bessacarr Lane, Doncaster Drained Wetland Y HSY4815 Stoops Lane, Bessacarr, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y HSY5276 Wintersett Drive, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y
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Allocation Reference: 262 Area (Ha): 3.11 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 5962 0167 Site Name: Plot 6, Lakeside Boulevard 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 2 events 1 record/2 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence Yes Yes Cartographic features of interest No Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a
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Allocation Reference: 262 Area (Ha): 3.11 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 5962 0167 Site Name: Plot 6, Lakeside Boulevard Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area
Site assessment Known assets/character: Two events are recorded within the site, comprising geophysical surveys and a possible trial trench. No archaeological remains were identified at either location. A geophysical survey has also been completed at the southern end of the buffer zone, but again no archaeological features were identified. There is one SMR record within the buffer zone, to the northeast of the site. This records the approximate location of Doncaster Airbase and Military Airfield. There are no Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings recorded within the site or the buffer zone. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project records the site as located within the boundary of a 20th-century airfield. Within the buffer zone, Iron Age to Romano British enclosures and field boundaries are recorded to the west of the site, immediately outside the site boundary, and also within the southern area of the buffer zone. Evidence of post-medieval ridge and furrow has also been recorded at the southern end of the buffer zone. Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and the western and southern areas of the buffer zone as an artificial lake, created as part of the leisure and business development of the surrounding area in the mid 1990s. Prior to this, the site was occupied by fields with straight and regular edges, indicative of parliamentary enclosure. It was part of High Ellers Common prior to enclosure in 1779 by Parliamentary Award. Legibility of the former landscape is invisible. Additional character areas within the buffer zone include drained wetland, modern housing, a leisure centre and regenerated scrubland. One area of Historic Landfill exists within the south-western end of the buffer zone, named Sandy Lane. No further information is given for this record. The site currently comprises an area of grassland, bordered by trees. A lake is present to the immediate west of the site, with a housing estate to the east. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: In 1854 the site was part of a group of fields, which were regular and straight. To the north of the site these are labelled as High Eller’s Common, and to the south of the site the fields are labelled North Field. By 1939 all of the field boundaries within the site had been removed, and the site was part of a large, blank space which continued significantly to the north. It is known that this blank area was Doncaster Airport. The airport is thought to have been constructed in 1934 and is known to have been in use during WWII, although it is not labelled as an airport on OS maps until 1977. The 1976 Russian map also marks it. During the war the airport, which had a grass runway, housed a Ministry of Aircraft Production factory where Westland Lysander reconnaissance planes were built. It is understood that the airport later reverted to a civilian aerodrome, until it was closed in 1992. There is no change on the site on the 1993 map. On the 1854 map, the area surrounding the site comprised straight and regular fields. Childer’s Drain was aligned approximately north-south to the west of the site, and smaller, unnamed drains were common throughout the landscape. By 1930, the South Yorkshire Joint Railway had been constructed to the east of the site. Many of the field boundaries and drains had been removed to the north of the site on the 1937 map, although the area is left as blank and unmarked. This is the area of Doncaster Airport, which is not labelled as such until 1977 OS maps. By 1955 some buildings had been constructed to the immediate east of the site, associated with the airport. By 1977 these buildings are labelled as a Gliding Club. By 1972 a tip is marked to the northwest of the site, which appears to have been infilled by 1980. There is little change on the 1993 OS map. Survival: The site was part of fields in 1779, and by the 1930s the site was located on the eastern edge of Doncaster airport, although it is not thought that any deep-ground disturbance associated with the airport has occurred on the site. Twenty-first century aerial photographs show that a lake was constructed sometime between 1993 and
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2002, immediately outside the western site boundary; it is possible that groundworks associated with the construction of the lake may have caused ground disturbance on the site. Previous geophysical surveys undertaken on the site did not identify any archaeological features, though this could be due to geological reasons. The potential for the survival of unrecorded buried archaeology on the site is considered to be low to moderate. 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 that the current site boundaries were established between 1993 and 2002, with the construction of a lake to the immediate west of the site, and Lakeside Boulevard to the east. The site is currently landscaped grassland. Some possible building outlines are identifiable with Lidar imagery , but these cannot be correlated with buildings on historic OS mapping. Photograph references: Google Earth images 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2015. Google Street View images 2015. RAF/CPE/UK/1880 0013 06-Dec-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/2563 4493 28-Mar-1948, RAF/58/1891 F21 0090 14-Oct- 1955, MAL/71048 0042 03-May-1971, MAL/77017 0095 28-Jun-1977, OS/78052 0269 25-May-1978, OS/92256 0232 20-Jul-1992.
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 04358/01 Doncaster Airbase Military Airfield Y and Military Airfield ESY906 Report on Although no evidence for archaeological remains is apparent Y Y Geophysical Survey with the development area, the site lies within a broad area of at Doncaster archaeological interest. In particular, a complex of cropmarks Airport to the south suggests prehistoric and Romano-British field system which might extend into the development area. ESY907 Archaeological Three areas of interest were identified within the Y Y Evaluation at development site. It was specified that a geophysical survey Doncaster Leisure should be carried out over two of these areas, to be followed and Business Park by trial trenching dependant on the results. The third area constrains surviving peat deposits and the brief required the excavation of trial trench for the collection of palaeo- environmental samples. The geophysical survey showed no archaeology within area B and number of small features of potentially archaeological features within area. The following is a proposal for limited excavation within area A as well as the collection of samples from area C.
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SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY5238 Lakeside Boulevard, Doncaster Artificial Lake Y Y HSY4641 Bessacarr Lane, Doncaster Drained Wetland Y HSY4808 High Ellers School, Bessacarr, Doncaster School Y HSY4809 Institute of Higher Education, Bessacarr, University or College Y Doncaster HSY5240 Potteric Carr Road, Doncaster Regenerated Scrubland Y HSY5241 The Dome, Doncaster Leisure Centre Y HSY5275 Hennings Close, Bessacarr, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y HSY5276 Wintersett Drive, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y
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Allocation Reference: 263 Area (Ha): 0.32 Allocation Type: Housing/Employment NGR (centre): SE 5724 0297 Site Name: 3 Sites in St. Sepulchre Gate West 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 - 9 SMR record/event - 8 records/1 event Cropmark/Lidar evidence No No Cartographic features of interest Yes Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Partial n/a
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Allocation Reference: 263 Area (Ha): 0.32 Allocation Type: Housing/Employment NGR (centre): SE 5724 0297 Site Name: 3 Sites in St. Sepulchre Gate West Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area
Site assessment This site comprises three parcels of land: North, Central and South-East. Known assets/character: The SMR does not record any findspots, monuments or events in the site. Four findspots, four monuments and one event are recorded within the buffer zone: a Neolithic or Early Bronze Age flint dagger, a Middle Bronze Age cinerary urn, fragments of a Roman amphora, a Roman coin hoard, the site of Doncaster Light Anti-Aircraft Gun Emplacement and an excavation at St. Sepulchre Gate at the northeast edge of the buffer. The latter identified defensive ditches and a pit associated with the Roman vicus, along with medieval ovens, pits and a well. There are no Scheduled Monuments within the site or the buffer zone. Nine grade II listed buildings are recorded in the buffer. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project did not record any features within the site or the buffer zone. The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the North and Central parts of the site as Suburban Commercial Core. These are large warehouse units constructed following the clearance of older terraced properties. This area was well developed as a suburb by 1786 and is considered likely to be part of a medieval suburb. There is no legibility of the earlier layout, which was probably cleared following the construction of Trafford Way in the 1970s. The Southeast part of the site is also recorded as Commercial Core Suburban, within the probable St Sepulchre Gate medieval suburb. The current fabric includes late 19th-century terraces and buildings, some of which may preserve legibility of earlier property boundaries. Character zones within the buffer are defined as School, Train/Depot Sidings, Other Industry, Ring Road/Bypass, Shopping Centre, Commercial Core Urban, Chemical, Terraced Housing, Planned Estate (Social Housing), Train Station, Leisure Centre, Civil & Municipal Building, Entertainment Complex, Religious Worship and Car Park. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The North parcel of the site was occupied by the buildings and yards of Peter’s Square at the time of the 1852 OS map. These remained substantially unchanged in 1948, but had begun to be demolished by 1956 and the site was shown clear of buildings on the 1961 OS map. A postal sorting office had been constructed by 1969. This building remains extant at the present day. The Central parcel contained several terraced houses, yards and a large rectangular block that may have been in industrial use in 1852. The rectangular block had been subdivided into individual properties by 1892. The northern part was marked ‘Crawshaw’s Yard’ on the 1902 OS map, with the southern part labelled ‘Senior’s Yard’. The 19th-century buildings had been cleared by 1930, when the site was open land. No development was shown within the parcel on the 1956 OS map, although two small, detached buildings had been constructed by 1961. Only the largest of these was shown in 1969. This was labelled ‘St. John’s Ambulance Brigade HQ’ on the 1974 map. The building had been extended to the west by 1986. No changes were shown within this parcel on the 1992 OS map. The Southeast parcel comprised gardens and open land separated by the course of Union Street at the time of the 1852 OS map. Terraced houses had been built on both sides of the street by 1892. These remained extant in 1956, but had been demolished by 1961. Union Street had been removed from the street plan by 1969. The present-day Council Offices had been built within by that date. No further changes were shown in this part of the site on the 1992 OS map. Numerous features were shown within the buffer zone on the 1852 OS map, including Doncaster Railway Station, streets, houses, industrial buildings, churches, chapels, shops, public houses, major and minor roads, gardens, allotments, yards, the site of West Bar or Gillot Bar. The majority of the open spaces within the buffer had been developed by 1892. The late 19th-century townscape remained largely intact in 1930, but clearances had begun to occur by 1948 and had intensified by 1956. The 1962 OS map showed substantial redevelopment, with parts of
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the 19th-century townscape removed through clearance and road-building schemes, while modern retail and commercial buildings replaced the majority of the domestic properties. Survival: North: Should the 19th-century buildings have possessed cellars, these may have destroyed any archaeological remains within their footprint. If the mid-20th-century Post Office sorting office contains a basement level, any archaeological remains within the building’s footprint are likely to have been destroyed. Should basements not be present, archaeological remains associated with the 19th-century buildings may survive. Such remains may include foundations, footings, cellars or the bases of walls. Central: Should the 19th-century buildings have possessed cellars, these may have destroyed any archaeological remains within their footprint. The standing building does not appear to possess basements or deep foundations. Buried archaeological remains associated with earlier activity may therefore survive beneath both the building and the car park. South-East: Should the 19th-century buildings have possessed cellars, these may have destroyed any archaeological remains within their footprint. If the mid-20th-century council offices contain basement levels, any archaeological remains within the building’s footprint may have been destroyed. Should basements not be present, archaeological remains associated with the 19th-century housing and former road may survive. Such remains may include foundations, footings, cellars or the bases of walls. Further investigations: Further archaeological investigation may be required if the site is brought forward for development. Significance: Unknown. Remains of 19th-century buildings are likely to be considered of Local archaeological significance; if any medieval remains survive, these could be of Regional significance.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: Twenty-first century aerial photographs show the standing buildings within the site, with no substantive changes between 2002 and 2015. Lidar data does not show any potential archaeological features within the site. Photograph references: Google Earth: 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009 and 2015. Bing Maps: 2015.
Statutory Designations Reference Name Designation/ Site? Buffer? ID Grade 1031509 Co-Operative Emporium and Danum House II Y 1132889 Railing to rear of St James's Church II Y 1151419 Main engine shop to rear of original plant works building at II Y Doncaster Station 1151433 Priory Methodist Church II Y 1193041 Church of St James II Y 1193202 Station booking hall and offices II Y 1261881 The Grand Theatre, Top Rank Bingo Hall II Y 1314550 Nag's Head and number 33 II Y 1314901 Original plant works building to south west of Doncaster Station II Y
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SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 00420/01 Medieval Hospital Hospital - Founded pre-1222. In ruins in late 17th century. No Y of St James, remains. Doncaster 00422/01 Site of Carmelite Friary founded 1350, dissolved 1538. Occupied a large plot on Y Friary, Doncaster the southern edge of the town. 00423/01 West Barr, or Gillot Gateway - no visual remains Y Bar, Doncaster 00668/01 Flint dagger of Notched flint dagger f.37, St Sepulchregate in 1937 Y Neolithic or Bronze Age date 00671/01 Middle Bronze Age Middle Bronze Age cinerary urn found in 1864 near St. Y Cinerary Urn Sepulchregate 01014/01 Fragments of Roman potsherds - Roman amphora sherds discovered while Y Roman amphora making "road from St Supulchre Gate to the Railway Station". 01016/01 Roman coin hoard Reference to 2 coin hoards "from Doncaster" - are of 52 Y found 1929 demarii and another of "120 coins from Wheatley Hills". 04718 Doncaster Light A Second World War light anti aircraft gun emplacement at Y Anti Aircraft Gun Doncaster. The exact location is not known. Emplacement ESY1038 Excavation at St Roman features comprised three wide ditches probably Y Sepulchre Gate, representing vicus defences, as well as pits, a gully and a coin Doncaster hoard. Medieval features included four ovens, a well, a stone- lined pit with associated culvert and several rubbish or cess pits. No evidence for of buildings or burgage plots was identified.
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY5929 Gordon St and Stewart St, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y Y HSY5933 St Sepulchre Gate retail warehouses, Commercial Core-Suburban Y Y Doncaster HSY5310 Stirling Primary School, Prospect Place, School Y Doncaster HSY5490 Railport, Doncaster Train Depot/ Sidings Y HSY5717 Plant Works, Doncaster Other Industry Y HSY5800 Frenchgate Junction, Doncaster Ring Road / Bypass Y HSY5804 Frenchgate Centre (within Bar Dike), Doncaster Shopping Centre Y HSY5805 High Street/ Frenchgate historic plot area, Commercial Core-Urban Y Doncaster HSY5809 Bridge Street, Hexthorpe, Doncaster Chemical Y HSY5810 Hexthorpe Road. Hexthorpe, Doncaster Chemical Y HSY5823 Priory Place, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y HSY5824 Banks and telephone Exchange, Doncaster Commercial Core-Urban Y HSY5887 St James Street Estate, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y HSY5911 Waterdale and Colonnades Centres, Doncaster Shopping Centre Y
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HSY5912 Cleveland Street / Trafford Way, Doncaster Ring Road / Bypass Y HSY5913 Trafford Way (south), Doncaster Ring Road / Bypass Y HSY5914 St James' Street, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y HSY5915 Doncaster Station, Doncaster Train Station Y HSY5927 Waterdale Swimming Baths, Doncaster Leisure Centre Y HSY5928 County Court and Sikh Temple, Doncaster Civil & Municipal Buildings Y HSY5930 Grand Theatre, Doncaster Entertainment Complex Y HSY5931 Frenchgate Centre (outside the Bardike), Shopping Centre Y Doncaster HSY5932 St Sepulchre Gate, Doncaster Commercial Core-Suburban Y HSY5934 St James Church, Doncaster Religious (Worship) Y HSY5935 Site of GNER Schools, Doncaster Car Park Y HSY5936 Car Park in former rail yard, St Sepulchre Gate, Car Park Y Doncaster HSY5310 Stirling Primary School, Prospect Place, School Y Doncaster
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Allocation Reference: 264 Area (Ha): 5.59 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 5931 0207 Site Name: Plot 13/14 Lakeside, Glwice Way/Lakeside Blvd 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 1 record/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: 264 Area (Ha): 5.59 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 5931 0207 Site Name: Plot 13/14 Lakeside, Glwice Way/Lakeside Blvd Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR records one monument covering the site and buffer, the location of Doncaster Airfield, a military airfield opened in 1939 and was used during the Second World War. It then became a licensed airfield for light aircraft until its closure in the late 1980s, after which the area was developed as a leisure and business park. Two events are recorded within the buffer, comprising geophysical survey and trial trenching associated with the development of the former airfield. The nature of the results of the evaluation is unclear from the event record. 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, though it is within the outline showing the location of the military airfield. A series of rectangular enclosure ditches is recorded at the southern edge of the buffer, partly within the area now occupied by the lake. The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the majority of the site and the western part of the buffer as a large area of regenerated scrubland on the site of a former tip. A small part at the northern side of the site is characterised as part of the grounds of a primary school first depicted in 1972. The former character of enclosed, drained wetland is no longer legible in either character area. In the southern part of the buffer is a modern artificial lake, with the Dome leisure centre and associated features to the northeast, and a further school, industrial site and depot to the northwest. Historic landfill data records two large overlapping tip sites to the immediate west of the site: the Sandy Lane tip site used for commercial waste and liquid sludge, and Doncaster Airport Tip, for which no further information is recorded. To the north of these are a two smaller sites: a sewage works and a landfill site for inert waste, both at Middlebank Road. The site is currently an area of rough grass between the school and the lake, with light retail/leisure units to the east. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: In 1854, the site was part of a group of fields defined by drainage ditches, in an area called Low Pasture. By 1903, all the boundary drains within the site had been removed. By 1961, it was shown as part of Doncaster Airfield, with no further changes shown by 1992. Within the buffer, the 1854 OS map showed mainly fields, in groups named Carr House Carr, High Ellers Common and North Field. Carr House was shown just outside the northwest edge of the buffer. A small group of buildings called Carrhouse Grove were shown to the west of the site in 1892, labelled Carr Grove Farm in 1930. The 1930 map also showed a sewage pumping station at the northwest edge of the buffer, and the dotted route of a Roman road to the north of the site, roughly parallel with the route of a footpath running through Low Pasture. By 1938, the majority of the area to the north, east and south of the site was shown as having no field boundaries, indicating that the airfield had been or was being established by this date, though it was not depicted on the map for security reasons. The airfield and associated features were first shown on the 1961 map, along with a depot and light industrial works to the north. Two schools were shown to the northwest of the site on the 1972 map, and an area of tipping was depicted to the immediate west of the site. The tip was no longer shown by 1992, suggesting it had been levelled and landscaped.. Survival: Some disturbance may have occurred within the site in association with the construction of the nearby lake, access roads and retail/leisure units, though the extent of such disturbance is unclear. The potential for the survival of buried archaeological remains is considered to be moderate. Iron Age to Roman enclosures have been recorded nearby as cropmarks.
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Further investigations: Further archaeological investigation may be required if the site is brought forward for development. Significance: Unknown.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: The 2002 aerial imagery shows the site as rough grassland with a number of bare earth access tracks running along its sides and through its centre, probably associated with the construction of the lake to the south and surrounding road network. These were becoming grassed over by 2003, and the site was all rough grassland by 2008, with a screening plantation along its northern edge. It was largely unchanged by 2015, though some spread of tree or shrub coverage is notable towards the northern end. Lidar data shows a drainage ditch along the eastern side of the site, and slightly uneven ground in the northwest corner, probably associated with the construction of the retail park to the north. Photograph/Lidar references: Google Earth: 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009 & 2015. Lidar data tiles SE5901 & SE5902 DTM 1m. Photos transcribed by the Magnesian Limestone Project: Enclosure ditches: OS/78052 0269 25-May-1978; OS/92256 0232 20-Jul-1992. Airfield: RAF/58/1891 F21 0090 14-Oct-1955.
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 04358/01 Doncaster Airbase The airport opened in 1939, but was taken over early by the Y Y and Military RAF as a 'Scatter Field', with a decoy airfield situated at Airfield Armthorpe to the northeast. At the end of hostilities, it opened as a licensed airfield for light aircraft. The airfield was closed in the late 1980s. Some of the dispersal pans still exist on the boundaries, but it is assumed that there will be nothing left to reflect 83 years of aviation history on this site. ESY906 Report on Magnetometry survey was undertaken in two areas, and Y Geophysical Survey revealed no archaeology within area B and number of small at Doncaster features of potentially archaeological features within area A. Airport ESY907 Archaeological Magnetometry survey was undertaken in two areas, and Y Evaluation at revealed no archaeology within area B and number of small Doncaster Leisure features of potentially archaeological features within area A. and Business Park Trenching was to be carried out depending on the results of the survey.
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SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY5240 Potteric Carr Road, Doncaster Regenerated Scrubland Y Y HSY5266 St. Peter's primary school, Sandy Lane, School Y Y Doncaster HSY4808 High Ellers School, Bessacarr, Doncaster School Y HSY5238 Lakeside Boulevard, Doncaster Artificial Lake Y HSY5241 The Dome, Doncaster Leisure Centre Y HSY5268 Aeroventure, Sandy Lane, Doncaster Municipal Depot Y HSY5270 Lakeside primary school, Sandy Lane, School Y Doncaster HSY5271 Sewage Works, Sandy Lane, Doncaster Utilities Y HSY5276 Wintersett Drive, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y HSY5283 Lime Tree Avenue, Hyde Park, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y
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Allocation Reference: 265 Area (Ha): 0.50 Allocation Type: Employment NGR (centre): 5902 0153 Site Name: Tear Drop Site, Wilmington Drive 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 No No Cartographic features of interest No No Estimated sub-surface disturbance Uncertain n/a
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Allocation Reference: 265 Area (Ha): 0.50 Allocation Type: Employment NGR (centre): 5902 0153 Site Name: Tear Drop Site, Wilmington Drive Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area
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 external boundary of a 20th-century airfield running through the site and buffer on a northwest to southeast alignment. Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and the northern end of the buffer zone as regenerated scrubland, a large area of regenerated scrubland on the site of a former tip. Before this, the area consisted of agricultural land. The original pattern of enclosures was created by a programme of drainage on Carrhouse Carr. This resulted in a series of straight and regular fields aligned on the drainage ditches, but legibility of this former landscape is invisible. Additional character zones within the buffer zone include a business park, a retail park and an artificial lake. Two areas of Historic Landfill exist within the site and across the northern buffer, named Doncaster Airport Tip and Sandy Lane. The latter was used for commercial and industrial sludge disposal, with no details recorded for the former. The site currently comprises a single parcel of scrubland, bounded on the northern side by Stadium Way and Wilmington Drive to the east. To the south and west is an industrial estate. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: In 1854 the site was located within a group of fields, to the north of the site collectively labelled Carr House Carr, and to the south Doncaster Carr. Lady Bank Drain ran through the site on a northwest to southeast alignment, which was in the approximate location of the current southern boundary of the site, although by 1960 the drain had been realigned to the west and south of the site. By 1955 all of the field boundaries within and to the north of the site had been removed. By 1980, this area was marked as Doncaster Airport. The airport is thought to have been constructed in 1934 and is known to have been in use during WWII, although the airport itself is not labelled until the 1977 OS map, presumably for security reasons. The 1960 OS map depicts some features within the site, presumably associated with the airport, although they are unlabelled. During the war the airport, which had a grass runway, housed a Ministry of Aircraft Production factory where Westland Lysander reconnaissance planes were built. It is understood that the airport later reverted to a civilian aerodrome, until it was closed in 1992. There were no change on the site on the 1993 map. On the 1854 map, the area surrounding the site comprised straight and regular fields with a high proportion of the field boundaries marked as drainage, including the substantial Calder’s Drain, which is aligned approximately north-south to the east of the site. By 1894 a small nursery had been established to the south of the site. Many of the field boundaries and drains had been removed to the north and east of the site on the 1955 map, marking the area of Doncaster Airport. By 1972 a tip was marked to the immediate north of the site. By 1984 the A6182, to the west of the site, had been constructed, and the tip to the north appears to have been infilled. There is little change on the 1993 OS map. Survival: The site was fields in 1854, and was located on the fringes on Doncaster Airport from the 1930s. Historic landfill data suggests that the site is located within an area which has seen two episodes of landfill, although these are not evident on historic maps; a tip is marked to the north of the site, but not within the site itself. By 2002, a lake was established to the east of the site and by 2008, a road had been built along the northern edge and a building had been constructed to the south. This recent activity in the immediate vicinity of the site suggests that potential for the survival of unrecorded buried archaeological remains is low.
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Further investigations: Further archaeological investigations are unlikely to be required if the site is brought forward for development. Significance: Negligible.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: Twenty-first century aerial photographs show that the current site boundaries were established sometime between 1993 and 2002, with the construction of a business park and associated infrastructure around the site. A hollow or small pond appears to be present at the western end of the site in 2002. By 2008, a Premier Inn Hotel had been constructed to the immediate south of the site. No earthworks of archaeological interest were identified within Lidar data for the site. Photograph references: Google Earth images 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2015. Google Street View images 2015. Lidar data tiles SE5801 & SE5901 DTM 1m. RAF/58/1891 F21 0090 14-Oct-1955
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY5240 Potteric Carr Road, Doncaster Regenerated Scrubland Y Y HSY5238 Lakeside Boulevard, Doncaster Artificial Lake Y HSY5239 Doncaster Carr, Doncaster Business Park Y HSY5254 White Rose Way, Doncaster Retail Park Y
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Allocation Reference: 273 Area (Ha): 9.15 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 5470 0995 Site Name: Askern Road, Carcroft Settlement: Carcroft, Skellow
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 - - Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest No Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a
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Allocation Reference: 273 Area (Ha): 9.15 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 5470 0995 Site Name: Askern Road, Carcroft Settlement: Carcroft, Skellow
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR does not record any monuments, findspots or events in the site or the buffer zone. 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 did not record any features within the site. Within the buffer, levelled ridge and furrow was recorded in the southern area and 20th- century air raid shelters to the northwest. The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the southern part of the site and southeast part of the buffer as drained wetland enclosed from Owston Common in 1760. The northern part of the site and northeast part of the buffer are recorded as agglomerated fields divided into ploughing units with very limited visibility of the former landscape of piecemeal enclosure. Character zones within the buffer are defined as terraced housing, semi-detached and detached houses and planned social housing estates, all of 20th- century date, allotments, a school, a modern retail park and two industrial estates and a colliery spoil heap. The site is currently part of three fields in arable cultivation, with most boundaries defined by drainage ditches. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The site was shown predominantly as fields, sub-divided by an L-shaped drain, on the 1851 OS map. The area was labelled ‘Spring Head or Bog Plantation’ though no plantation is clear on the map at that date. By 1892, an area at the north end of the southwest field was shown as the plantation, with several springs depicted within it. By 1932, the trees within the plantation were shown as sparse, with the majority of the site shown as rough heath, apart from the southeast field. A link from the drainage ditch within the site to Morley Well Drain to the northeast had been created by that date, running along the northern edge of the southeast field. The site layout was mainly unchanged by 1961, though the plantation area had extended slightly to the northeast. By 1990, it had contracted into a smaller area within the north end of the southwest field. The 1854 map showed the majority of the buffer zone as fields, with the area to the north and west mainly having slightly sinuous boundaries characteristic of enclosure from medieval open fields and the area to the south and east being regular, rectangular fields at Carcroft and Owston Commons, enclosed by Parliamentary Award. The Great Northern and Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway line ran through the southern part of the buffer. Settlement at Carcroft comprised a linear village at the western edge of the buffer, with a lane leading to the north called Corpse Lane. The southern boundary of the site was formed by Skellow Lane. Morley Well was depicted to the east of the site, with a drainage ditch heading east from it. Few changes were shown until 1932, when housing had been building to the southwest and west of the site, with allotment gardens to the immediate west of the southwest field. St Andrew's Presbyterian Church was to the west of the northern field, and a housing estate was under construction north of this. By 1978, a series of depots were shown to the south of Askern Road (formerly Skellow Lane). Survival: The site has been drained and may have been cultivated since at least the early 19th century, which could have impacted on the preservation of below-ground remains through truncation and desiccation. The potential for the survival of unrecorded buried archaeological remains below the zone impacted by ploughing 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 three arable fields, with boundaries defined by drainage ditches. The southern boundary of the former Spring Head or Bog Plantation is visible as a cropmark in the northern part of the southwest field. Lidar data is only available for the southern part of the site, and does not show any earthwork features within the fields. Photograph/Lidar references: Google Earth: 2002, 2003, 2008 & 2009. Lidar data tile SE5409 DTM 1m. Photos transcribed by Magnesian Limestone Mapping Project: Ridge and furrow: RAF/CPE/UK/1880 5076 06-Dec-1946; Air raid shelters: RAF/541/31 4403 18-May-1948.
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY131 Owston Common Drained Wetland Y Y HSY132 Fields to the West of West Farm Owston Agglomerated fields Y Y HSY95 Owston Rd, Askern Road and Queens Road, Terraced Housing Y Carcroft HSY99 Owston Road Allotments, Carcroft Allotments Y HSY102 Carcroft Primary School School Y HSY108 Carcroft 'New Village' Planned Estate (Social Housing) 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 HSY134 Skellow Road Carcroft Semi-Detached Housing Y HSY135 Carcroft Enterprise Park (former Bullcroft Other Industry Y sidings) HSY148 Carcroft Common Industrial Estate Other Industry Y HSY251 High street townhouses, Carcroft Villas/ Detached Housing Y HSY4312 Owston Common (spoil tip), Doncaster Reclaimed Coal Mine Y
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Allocation Reference: 274 Area (Ha): 7.72 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SK 6763 9977 Site Name: The White House, Wroot Rd, Finningley Settlement: Finningley
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 Yes Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Extensive(?) n/a
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Allocation Reference: 274 Area (Ha): 7.72 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SK 6763 9977 Site Name: The White House, Wroot Rd, Finningley Settlement: Finningley
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 or the buffer. The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as Regenerated Scrubland. This is a piece of scrubland that may have seen some very small scale mineral extraction. There is no legibility of the former Parliamentary Enclosure landscape of 1778. Character zones within the buffer are defined as Agglomerated Fields, Private Housing Estate, Utilities, Vernacular Cottages and Playing Fields/Recreation ground. The site is currently rough grassland in the main, with a house at its southeast corner. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: Three detached buildings set around a small, square plot were shown in the site’s southeast corner on the 1886 Ordnance Survey map. The remainder of the site consisted of a row of small square fields with a larger field to the south at that date. A footpath was shown along the western site boundary. The buildings and the southern part of their plot had been modified by 1899, with further redevelopment having taken place by 1921. A small ‘old sand pit’ was marked in the northern part of the site at that date. The 19th-centuiry buildings in the southeast part of the site had been demolished and replaced by the White House by 1962. Field boundaries had been removed by that date, while a trackway had been laid out through the site, leading from the road into a large new works within the buffer to the west. Two blocks of multi-celled features were marked in the northern part of the site, possibly pig sties. Between these features and the White House, the land was shown as scrub or rough grassland. A similar band of scrub ran along the northwest boundary. The 1985 map, which shows only the southern part of the site, depicts most of the internal boundaries having been removed, with the exception of the plot that enclosed White House. Hachures are shown around the west and northwest edges, suggesting that gravel quarrying has extended into the site. The boundary appeared to have been reinstated by 1992. Various features were marked within the buffer zone on the 1885 OS map including fields, field boundaries, Wroot Road, Wroot Road railway crossing and the Great Northern & Great Eastern Joint Railway. A small number of buildings had been constructed on the south side of the railway liner by 1902. Their function is unknown. No substantive changes were shown within the buffer until the 1962 OS map, when the buildings to the south of the railway line were marked ‘Gate House’. Large areas of sand and gravel extraction were shown within the buffer in 1962, along with several houses to the southwest of the site and a works to the west, with further housing shown on the 1981, 1985 and 1992 OS maps. Survival: Historic OS maps do not show clear evidence of large-scale sand and gravel extraction within the site, though the partial maps of the mid-1980s suggest it may have occurred during this period. Should sand and gravel extraction have occurred, this will have destroyed any archaeological remains within the affected parts of the site. It is possible that low-level features such as footings and foundations of buildings shown in the vicinity of White House in the mid-19th century may survive as subsurface features, though Lidar shows ground disturbance in these areas. Further investigations: If the site has been subject to sand and gravel extraction, no further archaeological investigations are likely to be required if the site is brought forward for development.
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Significance: If sand and gravel extraction has occurred, the archaeological resource will be of negligible significance.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Twenty-first-century aerial photographs show the site as an area of rough grassland/scrub, with White House at the southeast corner. Access roads are shown to the north and west of the house. These were surfaced with concrete or tarmac from 2008. A parking area was also shown in this part of the site from that date. Several of the photos show thin ground cover within the main part of the site, suggestive of restoration of an extractive tip. Lidar data shows a substantial field drain along the western site boundary, with ground disturbance around and to the west of White House. Photograph references: Google Earth: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2015. Bing Maps: 2015. Lidar data file SK6799.
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY4783 Wroot Road, Finningley, Doncaster Regenerated Scrubland Y Y HSY4542 Bawtry Road, Finningley, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y HSY4782 Wroot Road, Finningley, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y HSY4784 Station Road, Blaxton, Doncaster Utilities Y HSY5953 Finningley Historic Core, Finningley, Doncaster Vernacular Cottages Y HSY5955 Recreation Ground, Finningley, Doncaster Playing Fields/ Recreation ground Y HSY5956 Lindley Road, Chapel Close, Finningley, Private Housing Estate Y Doncaster HSY5958 Wroot Road, Finningley, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y
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Allocation Reference: 276 Area (Ha): 6.31 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 6910 1536 Site Name: Land adjacent Bloomhill Stud Farm, Moorends 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 record, 1 event Cropmark/Lidar evidence No No Cartographic features of interest No No Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a
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Allocation Reference: 276 Area (Ha): 6.31 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 6910 1536 Site Name: Land adjacent Bloomhill Stud Farm, Moorends Settlement: Thorne Moorends
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR does not record any monuments, events or findspots within the site. One findspot and one event are recorded in the buffer zone. The findspot is of a Bronze Age flint arrowhead, whilst the event was a coring survey undertaken to identify any areas of raised land which may have attracted prehistoric and later settlement. The survey identified the sub-surface deposits as inorganic sand, silt and clay, with no continuation of the Thorne Moor peat and gravel spurs into the area. There are no listed buildings or Scheduled Monuments within the site or the buffer zone. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project records ridge and furrow earthworks and cropmarks within the site and buffer zone, though no earthwork features are visible within the site on recent aerial images. The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as Drained Wetland and modern Private Housing Estate. The character within the southern half of the site and part of the buffer is defined as land enclosed as part of the Parliamentary Enclosure of the area in 1825, with no legibility of former common land. The present boundaries within this character area are largely defined by the 19th-century drainage layout. The northern part of the site was also enclosed in 1825, with changes in the layout of drainage and subdivision between 1851 and 1891 in association with the construction of the 1850s warping system fed by Durham's Warping Drain. The legibility of the Parliamentary Enclosure field boundaries within the site is good. Only a small section of the 1970s housing along the southern edge of the site intrudes into the site area, comprising outbuildings to the rear of one property. To the north and east of the site the landscape character within the buffer comprises 20th-century commercial core-suburban and residential development, with no legibility of former landscapes. The site comprises a group of small fields, with several buildings at the southern end. The field boundaries are formed by hedges and largely conform to those depicted in 1854. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The site was shown as fields on the 1825 Thorne, Hatfield and Fishlake enclosure map, when North Common Drain crossed the northern part of the site. The western boundary was formed by the construction of the North Eastern Railway between 1854 and 1892. No change was shown within the site between 1854 and 1962. Two detached buildings and an open-sided feature were shown in the eastern part of the site on the 1971 OS map, when this part of the site appears to have formed gardens to the rear of houses on North Common Lane. None of the garden structures were shown on the 1980 OS map. Within the buffer zone, North Common Drain, North Common Road and Marshland Road were extant by 1825. Mount Pleasant was marked on the 1841 OS map, with Bloom Hill Farm shown in 1854. North Common Drain had been modified by the construction of the North Eastern Railway along the western site boundary by 1892. A Catholic church, a presbytery and housing developments were also shown within the buffer zone at that date. Little change had occurred by 1956 but a coal yard and a second church were shown in 1962, while further housing development had occurred by 1971. Bloomhill Stud Farm had been established immediately to the southwest of the site by 1991. Survival: Due to the relative lack of deep ground disturbance, the potential for the survival of any previously unrecorded buried archaeology is considered to be moderate. Further investigations: Further archaeological investigation is likely to be required if the site is brought forward for development.
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Significance: Unknown. Note: Site 276 is the same as Site 150.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: Twenty-first-century aerial photographs show the site as scrub or rough pasture, with the 19th-century field boundaries marked by overgrown hedges. A field in the western part of the site was sub-divided into a series of smaller, square plots between 2002 and 2008, probably fenced enclosures associated with Bloomhill Stud Farm. There is no Lidar coverage for the site. Photograph references: Google Earth coverage 2002, 2008 & 2009.
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 01886/01 Bronze Age Barbed and tanged Bronze Age arrowhead from Moorends. Y Arrowhead, Thorne Moorends ESY539 Bloom Hill, Thorne In November 2002 a programme of coring was conducted on Y Moor land at Common Road in Bloom Hill. The deposit survey was carried out to identify any raised areas likely to have attracted early settlement or subsistence activity. The deposits encountered were mainly inorganic sand, 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 Industrial to Modern Drained Y Y Wetland HSY4417 Dikes Marsh and Moorends warped lands, Industrial to Modern Drained Y Y Thorne, Doncaster Wetland HSY4667 1970s estates to the south of Moorends Modern Private Housing Estate Y Y village, Doncaster HSY4664 Moorends commercial core, Thorne Modern Commercial Core- Y Moorends, Doncaster Suburban HSY4665 Darlington Grove, East Gate and Belvedere, Modern Planned Estate (Social Y Moorends, Doncaster Housing) HSY4666 Bloomhill Court, Moorends, Doncaster Modern Private Housing Estate Y
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Allocation Reference: 280 Area (Ha): 0.27 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SK 6569 9383 Site Name: Tall Trees, Rear of 17 Thorne Rd, Bawtry Settlement: Bawtry
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 No Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a
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Allocation Reference: 280 Area (Ha): 0.27 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SK 6569 9383 Site Name: Tall Trees, Rear of 17 Thorne Rd, Bawtry Settlement: Bawtry
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR does not record any monuments or events within the site. One monument is recorded in the buffer zone, a probable Iron Age to Roman field system recorded from cropmarks at Gally Hills in the western part of the buffer, probably since built on. There are no Scheduled Monuments and listed buildings are located within the site or buffer. The site is not covered by the Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project, so no cropmarks other than those recorded on the SMR are known in the site or buffer. Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and the eastern and northern parts of the buffer as agglomerated fields, where later 20th-century boundary loss has removed the former character, which comprised strip fields probably enclosed from medieval open field prior to 1766. Other character zones within the buffer include a sand and gravel quarry to the far north, further agglomerated fields to the northwest, modern private and social housing estate and a works yard to the west, and piecemeal enclosure from medieval open field to the south. Historic landfill data records a strip of infilled land at the northern edge of the buffer, named Narrow Lane, but no further details are given. This is shown on historic mapping as a 19th-century sand and gravel pit. The site is currently a strip of garden land to the rear of a house fronting onto Thorne Road. The boundaries appear to be hedges. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The 1854 OS map shows the site as part of a field, with the current southwest boundary shown at that date. The field ran between Narrow Lane to the north and the Bawtry and Selby turnpike road to the south. The southeast boundary of the site had been formed by the construction of two houses fronting onto Thorne Road by 1948, and the northeast boundary was first shown in 1962, forming a narrow plot within the former field. This was unchanged by 1992, though the northeast boundary at that date was shown as a dashed rather than a solid line. Within the buffer, the 1854 map shows the area as fields, mainly narrow with slightly sinuous boundaries suggestive of strip fields enclosed in a piecemeal fashion from medieval open fields. The Great Northern Railway runs through the west side of the buffer on a roughly north-south alignment, with Bawtry station and turntables to the southwest. A sand pit was shown at Pingle Hill at the northern edge of the buffer, no longer depicted in 1893. Housing had been built to the south of Narrow Lane by the latter date. Two semi-detached houses were shown to the south of Narrow Lane in 1902, within a small enclosure to the west of the site. Between 1922 and 1929, a second pair had been built to the south of the first houses, and three smaller houses were shown fronting onto Thorne Road, within the same former field immediately west of the site. By 1948, further housing was being constructed within this plot, and two houses were also under construction to the immediate southeast of the site, fronting onto Thorne Road. By 1962, the whole of the area between the site and the railway line, north of Thorne Road, had been developed with detached and semi-detached houses. This pattern was unchanged by 1992. Survival: Since the mid-19th century, the site has been used as a field and a garden. The relative lack of sub-surface disturbance suggests that the potential for the survival of unrecorded buried archaeology is moderate to good. Further investigations: Further archaeological investigations may be required if the site is brought forward for development.
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Significance: Unknown.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: The 2002 aerial photograph shows the site as a narrow strip of land behind a house fronting onto Thorne Road. The northwest half of the strip appeared to have been stripped of topsoil at that date, though trees were still shown within it. The southeast half was shown as a lawn, with a possible ornamental pond in the centre. By 2003 the whole area was grassed, and there did not appear to be a substantial boundary between the site and the arable field to the northeast. This boundary was shown as a low hedge in 2004. Lidar coverage does not show any archaeological features within the site. Photograph references: Google Earth coverage 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009 & 2012. Lidar data file SK6593.
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 02323/01 Cropmarks showing Gally Hills field system - crop marks site found from aerial Y Iron Age to photos. Romano-British field system, Bawtry
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY4587 Narrow Lane, Bawtry, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y Y HSY4495 Austerfield, Quarry, Austerfield, Doncaster Other Mineral Extraction & Y Processing HSY4562 Thorne Road, Bawtry, Doncaster Piecemeal Enclosure Y HSY4564 Gally Hills, Bawtry, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y HSY4565 Ex gravel pit, Austerfield, Doncaster Regenerated Scrubland Y HSY5531 Harewood Drive, Bawtry, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y HSY5535 Bawtry Station Yard, Bawtry, Doncaster Other Industry Y HSY5536 Kingswood Close, Bawtry, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y HSY5538 Stirling Avenue, Bawtry, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y HSY5572 Highfield Road, Bawtry, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y
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Allocation Reference: 281 Area (Ha): 0.31 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SK 5872 9255 Site Name: Land off Worksop Road, Tickhill Settlement: Tickhill
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 - 4 SMR record/event - 12 records/2 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest No No Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a
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Allocation Reference: 281 Area (Ha): 0.31 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SK 5872 9255 Site Name: Land off Worksop Road, Tickhill Settlement: Tickhill
Site assessment Known assets/character: There are no known SMR records within the site. Within the buffer, three findspots, eight monuments and two events are recorded. The findspots comprise which comprise a Roman pottery scatter recovered from Friar’s Hill Closes; the findspot of a medieval silver coin dating to Robert II; and a medieval arrowhead; whilst the monuments are an Iron Age to Romano-British enclosure and field boundaries recorded in a field to the west of the site; Tickhill medieval friary founded in 1260 and the associated Friary Cottage built in 1688; the 18th/19th century Tickhill Mill and dam and an industrial period limestone quarry. Trial trenching and excavation have been carried out at the Friary which recovered a number of 19th and 20th century features. There are no Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings within the site. Within the northern edge of the buffer are four listed buildings relating to the Friary comprising the Friary itself, Friary Cottage, and arch and gatepiers. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project records six areas of post medieval ridge and furrow within the buffer. To the east of the site are three areas of post medieval ridge and furrow. In the west is a prehistoric/Romano-British rectilinear enclosure and two features denoting field boundaries of the same period. Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and the southern part of the buffer as agglomerated fields. Although the removal of field boundaries in the late 20th century has created the larger fields, the names of some of the former open fields enclosed in piecemeal fashion persist, creating legibility of the former landscape. Many of the field boundaries were removed in the latter part of the 20th century. Areas to the north of the site include modern medium density and detached private housing estates and strip fields. The site is currently an area of rough grass to the south of housing development. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The 1852 OS map shows the site as located on the western edge of a large field bounded by what is now Worksop Road to the west. The present boundaries had been established by 1938. Within the buffer, the 1852 OS map depicts an area labelled ‘Old Quarry’ directly to the south of the site, with the remaining area being fields. The area remained unchanged until the 1938 OS map when a row of houses to the north of the site fronting onto Worksop Road are depicted, and the present boundary around the site had been established. By 1981, additional modern housing had been constructed between the Worksop Road houses and Lindrick Lane. Survival: The site was formerly part of a field from at least 1852. No development is known to have occurred on the site and the potential for the survival of unrecorded buried archaeological remains on 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: Aerial photographs from 1999 show the site as a small area of rough grass and shrubs with partial coverage of mature trees bounded on the north by housing, the south and east by agricultural fields and the west by Worksop Road. There is access to the site at the southern end from Worksop Road and there appears to be a small (possibly prefabricated) outbuilding in the south eastern corner. There is no Lidar coverage for this site. Photograph references: Google Earth: 1999, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009. Bing Maps: 2016. RAF/CPE/UK/1880 3358 06-Dec-1946, RAF/58/1891F21 0019 14-Oct-1955, SK5892/7 NMR 17286/28 08-Jul-1999.
Statutory Designations Reference Name Designation/ Site? Buffer? ID Grade 1151668 Arch set in garden wall south west of The Friary II Y 1151669 Gatepiers and arch to The Friary II Y 1286813 Friary Cottage II Y 1286862 The Friary and Friary Close II* Y
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 00222/01 Tickhill Medieval Augustinian Friary - Two ranges of buildings incorporating Y Friary medieval work. Founded c.1260. Incorporated into house probably c.1663. Whilst undertaking work at this location, Ian Stead of Doncaster Archaeology Society was informed by the groundsman that during the construction of the tennis courts, graves were uncovered. They were apparently quickly covered up again. 00222/02 Archway at Tickhill Archway set in garden walls southwest of the Friary. Two Y Friary centred double bowtell mouldings set with dogtooth ornament. 00222/03 Tickhill Friary Gateway. Y Gateway 00483/01 Medieval Silver Silver 1/2d of Robert II of Scotland found at the garden of 10 Y Coin Find, 10 Lindrick Close. Possibly the same as SMR No. 3903. Lindrick Close, Tickhill 01890/01 Romano-British A scatter of Roman period pottery is reported to have come Y Pottery Scatter at from south of the valley at Friars Hill Closes, Tickhill Friars Hill Closes, Tickhill 03481/02 Tickhill Mill Dam See PIN 3481/01 for details of Tickhill Mill. Y 03886/01 Medieval Friary Built in 1688. Hammer dressed and coursed rubble Magnesian Y Cottage, Tickhill limestone. pantiled roof 04058/01 Limestone Quarry, Shown on 1854 1st edition O.S. map (limestone extraction). Y Lindrick Lane, Tickhill 04065/01 Post-Medieval Limestone quarry recorded on the 1854 1st edition O.S. map. Y Limestone Quarry,
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Worksop Road, Tickhill 04071/01 Medieval Socketed iron arrowhead with part of shaft. Y Arrowhead Find, Lindrick Lane, Tickhill 04529/01 Friary Cottage (land Finds (unidentified). OLD or DUPLICATE record. Y off), Tickhill 04981 Prehistoric to A trapezoidal enclosure and two field boundaries are shown Y Romano-British on aerial photographs. Enclosure, Friars Hill Closes, Tickhill ESY303 Trial Trenching at In February 2001 a programme of trail trenching was Y The Friary, undertaken at The Friary. The results exposed the top surface Rotherham Road of a 19th century or 20th century brick-built vaulted structure, which is probably a cistern, drain or possibly a cellar. ESY540 Archaeological In November 1992 an evaluation of land within the grounds of Y Evaluation of land Tickhill Friary was undertaken. No significant remains were within the grounds recorded. of Tickhill Friary
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY5500 Junction of Worksop Road / Lindrick Lane, Agglomerated fields Y Y Tickhill, Doncaster HSY4292 Stump Cross Lane, Tickhill, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y HSY5478 Lindrick Close, Tickhill, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y HSY5494 Lindrick, Tickhill, Doncaster Villas/ Detached Housing Y HSY5496 Tickhill Friary, Tickhill, Doncaster Villas/ Detached Housing Y HSY5498 Peastach Lane, Tickhill, Doncaster Strip Fields Y
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Allocation Reference: 283 Area (Ha): 0.34 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 6891 1346 Site Name: Land off St Nicholas Road, 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 - 1 Listed Building - 10 SMR record/event - 7 records, 9 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: 283 Area (Ha): 0.34 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 6891 1346 Site Name: Land off St Nicholas Road, Thorne Settlement: Thorne Moorends
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR does not record any monuments or events within the site. Seven monuments and nine events are recorded within the buffer zone. The monuments include the medieval church and motte-and-bailey castle, medieval occupation deposits and a possibly medieval burial, a timber-framed building of probable early post- medieval date, an 18th-century vicarage and a 19th-century brewery. Events included historic building recording, geophysical survey, trial trenching and watching briefs, which have recorded some medieval deposits in Thorne centre, as well as 18th-century and later occupation and agricultural remains. No Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings are located within the site. Within the buffer zone there is one Scheduled Monument a short distance to the south of the site, the medieval Peel Hill motte and bailey castle. Nine grade II listed buildings are located within the south and southwest parts of the buffer, with the grade I listed Church of St Nicholas situated to the south of Peel Hill motte. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project recorded the Peel Hill motte earthworks within the buffer. Historic Environment Characterisation records the site as being located within an area of modern villas/detached housing, parkland and allotments. Character zones within the buffer include the medieval fortified site of Peel Hill motte and the medieval church, as well as post-medieval to modern housing in the form of vernacular cottages, planned and private housing estates and terraced housing, two schools, an area of former orchards, urban commercial core and a nursing home. A small area of surveyed enclosure survives around the water tower. The site is currently gardens along the St Nicholas Road frontage of Thorne House. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The 1853 OS map depicts the site as being part of a larger field, bounded to the southwest by buildings along King Street and to the northeast by High Trod Road (later St Nicholas Road). It was not until the construction of Thorne House between 1892 and 1906 that the current limits of the site were established. By that date, the site formed part of the gardens to the northeast of the house, crossed by a driveway leading to St Nicholas Road. The site contained a wooded area to the north and a pit or pond in the southern half. This pond was not shown on the 1956 OS map. Within the buffer zone, the 1853 map depicts Peel Hill motte to the southeast, along with St Nicholas Church and a Quaker Meeting House. The settlement of Thorne was concentrated along King Street at this date. Throughout the mid-20th century, further development within the buffer zone led to most of the fields and gardens along St Nicholas Road being built on. Survival: The site is close to the historic core of Thorne, which dates from at least the medieval period. Archaeological fieldwork within the buffer zone has identified evidence of the development of Thorne from the medieval to the modern periods. Due to the relative lack of deep ground disturbance, the potential for the survival of any previously unrecorded buried archaeology is considered to be moderate. Further investigations: Further archaeological investigations are likely to be required if this site is brought forward for development. Significance: Unknown. Remains associated with medieval activity could be of Local to Regional archaeological significance depending on their extent, nature and condition.
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Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: Twenty-first century aerial photographs depict the site as under mixed tree cover, maintained as garden. The drive that crosses the site remains in use, providing access to Thorne House. There is no Lidar for this area. Photograph references: Google Earth coverage, 2002, 2008 & 2009.
Statutory Designations Reference Name Designation/ Site? Buffer? ID Grade 1013451 Peel Hill motte and bailey castle, Thorne. SM Y 1151562 Travis studio II Y 1151566 Outbuilding to rear of number 44a II Y 1151571 The Old Vicarage II Y 1192950 44a And 44b, King Street II Y 1192964 The White Hart Inn II Y 1192983 Crimean War Memorial Pump II Y 1193076 Church of St Nicholas I Y 1193099 Remains of medieval coffin approximately 3 metres to south of II Y porch to church of St Nicholas 1314819 Churchyard gatepiers approximately 12 metres south west of II Y porch to church of St Nicholas 1391348 1 and 2, Market Place II Y
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 00119/01 Peel Hill Motte, A medieval motte in the town of Thorne Y Thorne 00318/01 St Nicholas' Church, Church, 13th-century and later. Y Thorne 00477/01 Timber Framed House includes elements of timber framing, property to rear Y Barn, Thorne includes part of timber frame of 16th-century barn. 03457/01 Darley's Brewery, Brewery on the site for over a century. A stretch of wall from Y Thorne the earlier building survives in the blocked off yard to the left of the tower. C.W. Darley took over the brewery in 1892, leading to expansion and a number of buildings date to this period. The brewery was taken over by Vaux Breweries in 1978 and closed in 1986. The site is a good example of a medium sized tower brewery. 03962/01 The Old Vicarage, 18th-century vicarage, now a private dwelling. Y Thorne 04512/01 Medieval Medieval occupation deposits containing 12th-century and Y Occupation earlier ceramics. Evidence shows the deposits have been adjacent to Peel disturbed. Hill, Thorne 05431 Inhumation, Lower Inhumation discovered in a garden on Kenyon Street. Possibly Y Kenyon Street,
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Thorne medieval or older. ESY1343 Evaluation Eight trenches were excavated to evaluate land to the south Y trenching on land and west of Peel Hill motte. No remains predating the 18th adjacent to Peel century were encountered. Footings for 18th- to 20th-century Hill motte, Thorne buildings were recorded in the southern part of the area, along with grave cuts associated with an 18th- to 19th-century Quaker burial ground. ESY1374 Trial trenching at Three trenches were excavated at Peel Hill Motte, Thorne. A Y Peel Hill Motte, 19th-century brick floor surface contained reused bricks of Thorne 16th- to 19th-century date. This, and the amount of brick found in later layers, suggests that the castle probably incorporated red brick. Foundation stones were excavated on the top of the motte, and these suggest a square plan. However they may related to an interior structure rather than the tower itself. ESY1561 8 Market Place A watching brief was maintained when foundation trenches Y Watching Brief for a domestic extension were excavated. The trenches were relatively shallow and were mainly cut through modern brick footings. A single dressed sandstone block was recovered from the northwestern corner of the site and is thought to be of post-medieval date. ESY257 Archaeological In 2004 a geophysical survey and a programme of trial Y Investigations at trenching was undertaken at Thorne Grammar School. The Thorne Grammar results of the geophysical survey detected groups of linear School anomalies probably reflecting traces of ridge and furrow ploughing and a former field system. The trial trenching confirmed that the anomalies detected in the geophysical survey related to the medieval/post-medieval agricultural use of the site in the form of ridge and furrows, field boundaries and drains. A number of pits and linear features dating from the 17th to 18th centuries in the southwest of the site were discovered. ESY258 Archaeological In January 2005 a watching brief was conducted at the Thorne Y Watching Brief at Church Hall. The results demonstrated that the site had Thorne Church Hall suffered from recent truncation despite being in an area of high archaeological potential for medieval activity. A small area of patterned floor tiles of modern date was revealed with a cobbled floor surface. ESY260 Historic Building In April 2005 a historic building assessment was undertaken Y Assessment of 1-2 ahead of complete demolition. Market Place & 8 Silver Street, Thorne ESY263 Archaeological In 1994 an archaeological evaluation was undertaken on land Y Evaluation of Land adjacent to Peel Hill. The results revealed evidence for adjacent to Peel occupation from at least the 12th century. Hill ESY264 Archaeological In May 2005 a second phase of archaeological evaluation was Y Evaluation at undertaken at Thorne Grammar School. The results indicated Thorne Grammar that earthworks in the south-west corner of the school School adjacent to the junction of St. Nicolas Road and Church Balk were likely to be associated with 20th-century quarrying with modern dumping deposits recorded in all of the trial trenches. ESY537 Archaeological In September 2003 a trial trench was excavated at Priory Y Evaluation at Priory Cottage. No features of archaeological significance were Cottage recovered but two sub-circular features, possibly modern post holes, and an irregular tree-bowl was identified.
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SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY5650 Allotment gardens North west of Peel Hill, Allotments Y Y Thorne, Doncaster HSY5651 Houses to the north west of Peel Hill, Thorne, Villas/ Detached Housing Y Y Doncaster HSY4649 King Edward Road, Thorne, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y HSY4674 King Edward First School and Thorne Grammar School Y School, Thorne, Doncaster HSY4675 Mansion Court Gardens, Thorne, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y HSY4677 South Common Estate, Thorne, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y HSY4679 Elmhirst / Glebe Flats, Thorne Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y HSY5601 St Nicholas Church, Thorne, Doncaster Religious (Worship) Y HSY5602 Historic 'burgage' core, Thorne, Doncaster Vernacular Cottages Y HSY5620 Peel Hill Motte, Thorne, Doncaster Fortified Site Y HSY5621 Supermarket, Field Road, Thorne, Doncaster Commercial Core-Urban Y HSY5623 Enclosed land around water tower, Thorne, Surveyed Enclosure Y Doncaster (Parliamentary/ Private) HSY5652 Overgrown orchards to the west of Peel Hill, Orchards Y Thorne, Doncaster HSY5654 Stonegate Road, Thorne, Doncaster Nursing Home / Almshouse Y HSY6009 School, North Eastern Road, Thorne, Doncaster School Y
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Allocation Reference: 284 Area (Ha): 2.82 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 5850 0219 Site Name: Formerly Carr House Allotments, Hyde Park 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 - 2 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: 284 Area (Ha): 2.82 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 5850 0219 Site Name: Formerly Carr House Allotments, Hyde Park Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area
Site assessment Known assets/character: There are no SMR records within the site. Within the buffer zone, the findspot of a Roman coin is recorded immediately outside the southern site boundary, and the findspot of a middle Iron Age to Roman partial beehive quern is recorded to the north of the site. One event exists within the buffer zone, the location of an archaeological watching brief to the southwest of the site, although no archaeological deposits, features or artefacts were identified. There are no Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings recorded within the site or the buffer zone. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project records the external boundary of a 20th century airfield within the buffer zone, to the south of the site. An area of Historic Landfill is recorded at the eastern extreme of the site and extends into the eastern end of the buffer zone, named Sewage Works. Three landfill sites exist in the southern end of the buffer zone; Landfill Site, Middle Bank, Doncaster Carr; Sandy Lane; and Doncaster Airport Tip. In the western end of the buffer zone Business Park is recorded. No further information is given for these records. Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as allotments, which appear contemporary with the planned housing estate to the north (c.1930s). Before this, the area consisted of agricultural land. The original pattern of enclosures was created by a programme of drainage on Carrhouse Carr. This resulted in a series of straight and regular fields aligned on the drainage ditches. Legibility of the former landscape is invisible. The northern end of the buffer zone is characterised by modern housing, with regenerated scrubland and a business park to the south. A number of allotments are currently present on the site. To the north is a modern housing estate, with regenerated land and a modern business park to the south. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: On the 1851 map the site is located over a number of fields, with a drain running along much of the northern site boundary. This remained the case until 1930, by which time the site and much of the surrounding area had been turned into allotment gardens, in association with the housing estate which had been created to the north of the site by this time. Several small sheds are depicted across the site. The site remained unchanged on the 1992 map. Within the buffer zone, the area surrounding the site comprised fields, with many of the field boundaries marked as drains. The fields to the south were labelled Carr House Carr. By 1893, houses had been constructed in the north-western end of the buffer zone, which in time gradually progressed east across the northern end of the buffer zone, until by 1930 the whole of the northern buffer zone was developed with houses. The allotment gardens present within the site spread into the buffer zone to the north and south. A sewage works was present just outside the eastern site boundary and Doncaster airport was present at the very southern end of the buffer zone. By 1992 a large depot had been built within the south-western are of the buffer zone. Survival: The site has been in agricultural and horticultural use, which may have caused some truncation of sub-surface remains. Below the level of intrusive activity, the potential for the survival of unrecorded 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.
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Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: Twenty-first century aerial photographs show that the southern site boundary was established sometime between 1993 and 2002, when allotments to the south of the site had been reclaimed and given over to scrubland, possibly in association with the construction of a business park which was present to the west of the site by 2002. The site is still shown as allotments in 2009; 2015 aerial photographs of the site are obscured by cloud. Former drains and field boundaries are visible within Lidar imagery. Photograph references: Google Earth images 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2015. Google Street View images 2015. RAF/58/1891 F21 0090 14-Oct-1955
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 01038/01 Roman coin found Sestertius in worn condition from allotment off Chequer Y Chequer Avenue, Avenue, 1966. Doncaster 04299/01 Partial Beehive Upper stone of a beehive quern found at Childers Street. Y Quern, Childers Street, Doncaster ESY899 Archaeological An archaeological watching brief was undertaken concurrent Y Watching Brief at with the excavation of series of geotechnical test pits at the Tesco Distribution Tesco Distribution Centre on White Rose, Doncaster. No Centre, Doncaster, archaeological deposits, features or artefacts were identified South Yorkshire in any of the test pits. The only deposits disturbed by these ground works were of modern rubble and made ground.
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY5272 Chequer Avenue, Doncaster Allotments Y Y HSY5239 Doncaster Carr, Doncaster Business Park Y HSY5240 Potteric Carr Road, Doncaster Regenerated Scrubland Y HSY5257 Middle Bank, Doncaster Business Park Y HSY5270 Lakeside primary school, Sandy Lane, School Y Doncaster HSY5271 Sewage Works, Sandy Lane, Doncaster Utilities Y HSY5283 Lime Tree Avenue, Hyde Park, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y HSY5289 Thoresby Avenue, Hyde Park, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y HSY5301 Carr House Road, Hyde Park, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y
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Allocation Reference: 287 Area (Ha): 0.18 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 4867 0828 Site Name: Home Farm 3, Hooton Pagnell Settlement: Hooton Pagnell
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 - 1 Listed Building - 18 SMR record/event - 3 records/2 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest Yes No Estimated sub-surface disturbance Partial n/a
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Allocation Reference: 287 Area (Ha): 0.18 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 4867 0828 Site Name: Home Farm 3, Hooton Pagnell Settlement: Hooton Pagnell
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR does not record any monuments or events within the site. Within the buffer, three monuments and two events are recorded. The monuments relate to an early Iron Age to Roman enclosure and field boundaries, located to the east of the site, a medieval market cross (which is also a Scheduled Monument), located to the south of the site, and post-medieval agricultural buildings and threshing barn (also grade II listed) at Mappleyard Farm, located to the south of the site. The two events relate to building recordings at Mappleyard Farm, which found the earliest structure to be a large 18th century threshing barn with characteristic triangular vents. There is one Scheduled Monument within the buffer, the aforementioned market cross. It should be noted that the location of the market cross given in the SMR data may be incorrect. Historic and current OS maps all mark the location of the cross to be located by the road, to the south of the site, and certainly this seems a more likely location than the location given in the SMR, which is on the corner of a modern agricultural building. There are 18 listed buildings within the buffer, all of which are grade II listed. These are mostly clustered around the main road B6422 and comprise post-medieval domestic and farm buildings. 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 south-east of the site. To the north and west, levelled post-medieval ridge and furrow has been recorded. Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and the northern and southern ends of the buffer as burgage plots of Hooton Pagnell. The pattern of property boundaries conforms to one of a typical medieval strip village with traditional narrow plots set between a main street and a 'Back Lane'. Many of the village houses contain 17th century or earlier elements. The western and eastern side of the buffer are both characterised as former open fields around Hooton Pagnell, an area containing a well-preserved enclosed surveyed strip layout. 'North Field' and 'Back Field' may be Parliamentary-period enclosures as they have very straight internal boundaries. Hooton Pagnell was enclosed 'by agreement' in 1796. Since 1851 only minor boundary loss and amalgamation of field units has occurred. The preservation of the earlier boundaries around the large open field units and the older routes through the fields constitutes partial legibility of medieval landscape features. The site currently comprises a plot of land containing agricultural buildings. The site boundaries are not clearly denoted, except a possible fence line to the south. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: A single north-south aligned building stands on the site on the 1854 OS map. The northern and southern site boundaries and clearly marked. By 1892, the 1854 building had been removed and replaced with the L-shaped building which is still present on the site today, and a footpath is show from the north-east of the building, heading north-east to Back Lane. By 1948, an additional north-south wing had been added to the building, making it U-shaped, and an east-west aligned building had been constructed to the south of this. By 1962, the path leading to Back Lane is no longer marked, with another path, heading west to the main street, having been established. By 1966, the U-shaped building was shown as square, and had been further extended to the west to join with a building in the adjoining plot to the west. It is unclear from the map whether this is a single building, or a collection of smaller buildings built close together, although probably the latter. This building arrangement remains so until 1991. Current OS mapping shows the L-shaped building first shown on the 1892 to be present on the site, with the subsequent extensions removed. The building to the south of the site is no longer present, with a round agricultural structure present in its location. Within the buffer, by 1854 the basic road structure present today is extant, with many buildings clustered around the main street. A trough is marked on Clayton Lane and to the east and west of the site are fields. In 1892, a school is present to the south-west of the site, and the location of the market cross is noted on the map. At this time also, a Manor House is marked to the northwest of the site. By 1906, this is no longer labelled, although the
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building still exists. By 1930, a pump is marked at the approximate location of the 1851 trough and a war memorial is present just to the north of the market cross. By 1991, the school had been relocated to the north of Clayton Lane. With the exception of temporary agricultural buildings, very little development is evident in the buffer from historic map analysis, and the surrounding fields to the east and west of the site still exist today as they are shown in 1854. Survival: The majority of the site is occupied by a building, with map evidence of other buildings having existed on the site throughout the 20th century. Any area of the site within the footprint of the current or previous buildings is considered to have low potential for the survival of previously unrecorded buried archaeology. Areas of the site outside of any building footprints are likely to have a moderate potential for the survival of buried remains; this mainly comprises the northern area of the site. Though this is a small area, the site lies within the possible medieval core of the village. Further investigations: The majority of the site is occupied by an L-shaped building, presumed to be the building of the same shape first depicted on the 1892 OS map. Further investigation and recording of this building may be required, if the site is brought forward for development. In addition, further archaeological investigation of the potential for buried remains may be required at the northern end of the site. Significance: Unknown. The late 19th-century building on the site may be considered to be of Local heritage significance.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: Twenty-first century aerial photography shows an L-shaped building on the site, with a round-shaped agricultural building to the south. In 1999 an extension appears to be present on the northern elevation of the building, possibly with a metal corrugated roof, which is still present in 2003 although absent by 2008. A track is present at the northern end of the site, leading out onto the main street. There is no available Lidar data for the site. Photograph references: Google Earth images 1999, 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009. RAF/CPE/UK/1879 3116 06-Dec-1946; SE4908/2 DNR 754/11 05-Jul-1975; ULM CNL 87 04-Oct-1980; SE4907/5 NMR 12125/38 26-Jul-1991.
Statutory Designations Reference Name Designation/ Site? Buffer? ID Grade 1012937 Market cross SM Y 1151630 Twitchell Corner II Y 1151634 Roadside farmbuilding immediately to north of Manor Farmhouse II Y 1151635 Barn immediately to south east of Watchley Farmhouse II Y 1151636 Barn approximately 10 metres to north of Mappleyard Farmhouse II Y 1151637 Rock Farmhouse II Y 1151638 Forge Cottage II Y 1151639 Village Cross immediately to north west of Ivy Cottage II Y 1192520 Manor Farmhouse II Y 1192534 Home Farmhouse II Y
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1192538 Wheatcroft House II Y 1192563 The Hostel II Y 1192581 Wayside Cottage II Y 1286528 The Old Forge II Y 1286549 Watchley Farmhouse II Y 1286551 Ivy Cottage II Y 1314774 Roadside Cottage II Y 1314775 Barn approximately 20 metres to south west of Ivy Cottage II Y 1314776 House known as Number 5 II Y
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 00016/01 Iron Age or Iron Age trackway, field boundaries and octagonal enclosure Y Romano-British recorded as cropmarks. cropmark features, Hooton Pagnell 00359/01 Medieval Market Steps, socket and part of shaft of typical medieval market Y Cross, Hooton cross, dating to 1253? Pagnell 05609 Post-medieval Agricultural buildings arranged around two parallel yards. The Y agricultural buildings date from the 18th to the 20th centuries, with the buildings at earliest structure a large threshing barn. Other structures Mappleyard Farm, include stables, byres, stores and shelter sheds. Most of the Hooton Pagnell buildings were assessed in 2005. ESY366 Archaeological In July 2005 an archaeological assessment and building Y Assessment and appraisal was undertaken for Mappleyard Farm. The earliest Buildings Appraisal structure is a large 18th century threshing barn with of Mappleyard characteristic triangular vents. It is suggested that earlier sub- Farm surface remains are unlikely to be disturbed within the site boundary. ESY1370 Building survey at Buildings survey of two buildings at Mappleyard Farm, Hooton Y Mappleyard Farm, Pagnell. One building, previously thought to be a bull pen, is Hooton Pagnell now believed to have originally been built as a stable with hayloft. The second building was a good example of a threshing barn.
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY5750 Hooton Pagnell, Doncaster Burgage Plots Y Y HSY229 Former Open Fields around Hooton Pagnell Surveyed Enclosure Y (Parliamentary/ Private) HSY4149 Mappleyard Plantation, Hooton Pagnell, Plantation Y Doncaster HSY5749 All Saints Aided Primary School, Doncaster School Y
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Allocation Reference: 288 Area (Ha): 0.24 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 4869 0822 Site Name: Home Farm 4, Hooton Pagnell Settlement: Hooton Pagnell
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 - 1 Listed Building - 20 SMR record/event - 3 records/2 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest No No Estimated sub-surface disturbance Partial n/a
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Allocation Reference: 288 Area (Ha): 0.24 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 4869 0822 Site Name: Home Farm 4, Hooton Pagnell Settlement: Hooton Pagnell
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR does not record any monuments or events within the site. Within the buffer, three monuments and two events are recorded. The monuments relate to an early Iron Age to Roman enclosure and field boundaries, located to the east of the site, a medieval market cross (which is also a Scheduled Monument), located to the south of the site, and post-medieval agricultural buildings and threshing barn (also grade II listed) at Mappleyard Farm, located to the south of the site. The two events relate to building recordings at Mappleyard Farm, which found the earliest structure to be a large 18th century threshing barn with characteristic triangular vents. There is one Scheduled Monument within the buffer, the aforementioned market cross. It should be noted that the location of the market cross given in the SMR data may be incorrect. Historic and current OS maps all mark the location of the cross to be located by the road, to the south of the site, and certainly this seems a more likely location than the location given in the SMR, which is on the corner of a modern agricultural building and cannot be identified on aerial photography. There are 20 listed buildings within the buffer, all of which are grade II listed. These are mostly clustered around the main road B6422 and comprise post-medieval domestic and farm buildings. 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/Roman field boundaries are present to the southeast of the site. To the north and west, levelled post-medieval ridge and furrow have been recorded. Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and the northern and southern ends of the buffer as burgage plots of Hooton Pagnell. The pattern of property boundaries conforms to one of a typical medieval strip village with traditional narrow plots set between a main street and a 'Back Lane'. Many of the village houses contain 17th century or earlier elements. The majority of the western and eastern side of the buffer are both characterised as former open fields around Hooton Pagnell, an area containing a well-preserved enclosed surveyed strip layout. 'North Field' and 'Back Field' may be Parliamentary period enclosures as they have very straight internal boundaries. Hooton Pagnell was enclosed 'by agreement' in 1796. Since 1851 only minor boundary loss and amalgamation of field units has occurred. The preservation of the earlier boundaries around the large open field units and the older routes through the fields constitutes partial legibility of medieval landscape features. The site currently comprises a rectangular plot of land containing an agricultural building. The northern and western site boundaries are marked with hedging, whilst the eastern and southern site boundary are not marked. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: On the 1854 OS map the site is shown as part of three plots of land, which stand empty. The middle plot of land had a small building on its western side by 1892. By 1948, a handful of other buildings stood on the site, all of which had been removed by 1966. The building first present on the 1892 map was still present at this time. The 1983 map shows little change from the 1966 map. The current building which stands on the site was first shown in 1991, with the 1892 building removed. Within the buffer, by 1854 the basic road structure present today was extant, with many buildings clustered around the main street. A trough is marked on Clayton Lane with fields to the east and west of the site. In 1892, a school was present to the southwest of the site, and the location of the market cross is noted on the map. At this time also, a Manor House was marked to the northwest of the site. By 1906, this is no longer marked, although the building which the label appears to relate to still existed. By 1930, a pump was marked at the approximate location of the 1851 trough and a war memorial was present just to the north of the market cross. By 1991, the school had been relocated to the north of Clayton Lane. With the exception of temporary agricultural buildings, very little development is evident in the buffer from historic map analysis, and the surrounding fields to the east and west of the site still exist today as they are shown in 1854.
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Survival: The majority of the site is occupied by an agricultural building, with map evidence of other buildings having existed on the site throughout the 20th century. The extent of sub-surface disturbance caused by the agricultural buildings is unclear as these may have had shallow foundations. Areas outside the building footprints are likely to have moderate survival of remains. Further investigations: Further archaeological investigation may be required if the site is brought forward for development, particularly at the northern end of the site where no recorded buildings have been located. Significance: Unknown.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: Twenty-first century aerial photography shows a rectangular building in the southern half of the site, with a grassed area to the north. There is no available Lidar data for the site. Photograph references: Google Earth images 1999, 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009. RAF/CPE/UK/1879 3116 06-Dec-1946; SE4908/2 DNR 754/11 05-Jul-1975; ULM CNL 87 04-Oct-1980; SE4907/5 NMR 12125/38 26-Jul-1991; SE4808/17 NMR 12125/54 26-Jul-1991.
Statutory Designations Reference Name Designation/ Site? Buffer? ID Grade 1012937 Market Cross SM Y 1151630 Twitchell Corner II Y 1151634 Roadside farmbuilding immediately to north of Manor Farmhouse II Y 1151635 Barn immediately to south east of Watchley Farmhouse II Y 1151636 Barn approximately 10 metres to north of Mappleyard Farmhouse II Y 1151637 Rock Farmhouse II Y 1151638 Forge Cottage II Y 1151639 Village Cross immediately to north west of Ivy Cottage II Y 1192520 Manor Farmhouse II Y 1192534 Home Farmhouse II Y 1192538 Wheatcroft House II Y 1192563 The Hostel II Y 1192581 Wayside Cottage II Y 1286528 The Old Forge II Y 1286540 Falcon House II Y 1286549 Watchley Farmhouse II Y 1286551 Ivy Cottage II Y 1314774 Roadside Cottage II Y 1314775 Barn approximately 20 metres to south west of Ivy Cottage II Y
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1314776 House known as Number 5 II Y 1314777 Corner Cottage, Ivy House II Y
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 00016/01 Iron Age or Iron Age trackway, field boundaries and octagonal enclosure Y Romano-British recorded as cropmarks. cropmark features, Hooton Pagnell 00359/01 Medieval Market Steps, socket and part of shaft of typical medieval market Y Cross, Hooton cross, dating to 1253? Pagnell 05609 Post-medieval Agricultural buildings arranged around two parallel yards. The Y agricultural buildings date from the 18th to the 20th centuries, with the buildings at earliest structure a large threshing barn. Other structures Mappleyard Farm, include stables, byres, stores and shelter sheds. Most of the Hooton Pagnell buildings were assessed in 2005. ESY366 Archaeological In July 2005 an archaeological assessment and building Y Assessment and appraisal was undertaken for Mappleyard Farm. The earliest Buildings Appraisal structure is a large 18th century threshing barn with of Mappleyard characteristic triangular vents. It is suggested that earlier sub- Farm surface remains are unlikely to be disturbed within the site boundary. ESY1370 Building survey at Buildings survey of two buildings at Mappleyard Farm, Hooton Y Mappleyard Farm, Pagnell. One building, previously thought to be a bull pen, is Hooton Pagnell now believed to have originally been built as a stable with hayloft. The second building was a good example of a threshing barn.
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY5750 Hooton Pagnell, Doncaster Burgage Plots Y Y HSY229 Former Open Fields around Hooton Pagnell Surveyed Enclosure Y (Parliamentary/ Private) HSY4149 Mappleyard Plantation, Hooton Pagnell, Plantation Y Doncaster HSY5747 All Saints' Church, Hooton Pagnell, Doncaster Religious (Worship) Y HSY5749 All Saints Aided Primary School, Doncaster School Y
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Allocation Reference: 290 Area (Ha): 0.35 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 4871 0827 Site Name: Home Farm 6, Hooton Pagnell Settlement: Hooton Pagnell
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 - 1 Listed Building - 18 SMR record/event - 3 records/2 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest No No Estimated sub-surface disturbance Partial n/a
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Allocation Reference: 290 Area (Ha): 0.35 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 4871 0827 Site Name: Home Farm 6, Hooton Pagnell Settlement: Hooton Pagnell
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR does not record any monuments or events within the site. Within the buffer, three monuments and two events are recorded. The monuments comprise cropmarks probably associated with an early Iron Age to Roman enclosure and field boundaries, located to the east of the site, a medieval market cross (which is also a Scheduled Monument), located to the south of the site, and post-medieval agricultural buildings and threshing barn (also grade II listed) at Mappleyard Farm, located to the south of the site. The two events relate to building recordings at Mappleyard Farm, which found the earliest structure to be a large 18th century threshing barn with characteristic triangular vents. There is one Scheduled Monument within the buffer, the aforementioned market cross. It should be noted that the location of the market cross given in the SMR data may be incorrect. Historic and current OS maps all mark the location of the cross to be located by the road, to the south of the site, and certainly this seems a more likely location than the location given in the SMR, which is on the corner of a modern agricultural building. There are 18 listed buildings within the buffer, all of which are grade II listed. These are mostly clustered around the main road B6422 and comprise post-medieval domestic and farm buildings. 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 south-east of the site. To the north and west, levelled post-medieval ridge and furrow have been recorded. Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and the northern and southern ends of the buffer as burgage plots of Hooton Pagnell. The pattern of property boundaries conforms to one of a typical medieval strip village with traditional narrow plots set between a main street and a 'Back Lane'. Many of the village houses contain 17th century or earlier elements. The majority of the remainder of the buffer is characterised as former open fields around Hooton Pagnell, an area containing a well-preserved enclosed surveyed strip layout. 'North Field' and 'Back Field' may be Parliamentary period enclosures as they have very straight internal boundaries. Hooton Pagnell was enclosed 'by agreement' in 1796. Since 1851 only minor boundary loss and amalgamation of field units has occurred. The preservation of the earlier boundaries around the large open field units and the older routes through the fields constitutes partial legibility of medieval landscape features. The site currently comprises a plot of land containing agricultural buildings. The site boundaries to the west and south are not clearly denoted, To the north and east the boundary consists of a planted hedgerow. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The 1854 map depicts the site as a paddock/garden to the rear of a single north-south aligned building located within the buffer zone to the west. The northern and southern site boundaries were clearly marked. By 1893, the building had been removed and replaced with the L-shaped building which is still present on the site today, and a footpath ran from the northeast of the building, heading northeast to Back Lane. A small orchard was also shown within the south of the site, utilising the space of a paddock recorded on the 1854 OS map. By 1962, the path leading to Back Lane was no longer marked, with another path, heading west to the main street, having been established. By 1982 the orchard had been removed in the south of the site and four agricultural silos constructed in its place. A rectangular structure was also marked, probably the building with a corrugated roof depicted on modern aerial photography, probably a barn. Within the buffer, by 1854 the basic road structure present today was extant, with many buildings clustered around the main street. A trough was marked on Clayton Lane and to the east and west of the site were fields. In 1892, a school was present to the southwest of the site, and the location of the market cross was noted on the map. At this time also, a Manor House was marked to the northwest of the site. By 1906, this is no longer labelled, although the building appeared to still exist. By 1930, a pump was marked at the approximate location of the 1851 trough and a war memorial is present just to the north of the market cross. By 1991, the school had
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been relocated to the north of Clayton Lane. With the exception of temporary agricultural buildings, very little development is evident in the buffer from historic map analysis, and the surrounding fields to the east and west of the site still exist today as they were shown in 1854. Survival: The extent of sub-surface disturbance caused by the current and former agricultural buildings is currently unclear, as these may have had shallow foundations. Areas outside the building footprints have a moderate potential for the survival of unrecorded buried archaeological remains. Further investigations:
Further archaeological investigation may be required if the site is brought forward for development, particularly in the areas outside the footprint of former agricultural buildings. Significance: Unknown.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: Twenty-first century aerial photography shows the rectangular structure with corrugated roof on the site along with the barn and silos within the south. A track connects both the northern and southern ends of the site, which also provides access to the field to the east and the main road to the west. There is no available Lidar data for the site. Photograph references:
Google Earth images 1999, 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009. RAF/CPE/UK/1879 3116 06-Dec-1946; SE4908/2 DNR 754/11 05-Jul-1975; ULM CNL 87 04-Oct-1980; SE4907/5 NMR 12125/38 26-Jul-1991.
Statutory Designations Reference Name Designation/ Site? Buffer? ID Grade 1012937 Market cross Y 1151630 Twitchell Corner II Y 1151634 Roadside farmbuilding immediately to north of Manor Farmhouse II Y 1151635 Barn immediately to south east of Watchley Farmhouse II Y 1151636 Barn approximately 10 metres to north of Mappleyard Farmhouse II Y 1151637 Rock Farmhouse II Y 1151638 Forge Cottage II Y 1151639 Village Cross immediately to north west of Ivy Cottage II Y 1192520 Manor Farmhouse II Y 1192534 Home Farmhouse II Y 1192538 Wheatcroft House II Y 1192563 The Hostel II Y 1192581 Wayside Cottage II Y 1286528 The Old Forge II Y 1286549 Watchley Farmhouse II Y
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1286551 Ivy Cottage II Y 1314774 Roadside Cottage II Y 1314775 Barn approximately 20 metres to south west of Ivy Cottage II Y 1314776 House known as Number 5 II Y
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 00016/01 Iron Age or Iron Age trackway, field boundaries and octagonal enclosure Y Romano-British recorded as cropmarks. cropmark features, Hooton Pagnell 00359/01 Medieval Market Steps, socket and part of shaft of typical medieval market Y Cross, Hooton cross, dating to 1253? Pagnell 05609 Post-medieval Agricultural buildings arranged around two parallel yards. The Y agricultural buildings date from the 18th to the 20th centuries, with the buildings at earliest structure a large threshing barn. Other structures Mappleyard Farm, include stables, byres, stores and shelter sheds. Most of the Hooton Pagnell buildings were assessed in 2005. ESY366 Archaeological <1> In July 2005 an archaeological assessment and building Y Assessment and appraisal was undertaken for Mappleyard Farm. The earliest Buildings Appraisal structure is a large 18th century threshing barn with of Mappleyard characteristic triangular vents. It is suggested that earlier sub- Farm surface remains are unlikely to be disturbed within the site boundary. ESY1370 Building survey at Buildings survey of two buildings at Mappleyard Farm, Hooton Y Mappleyard Farm, Pagnell. One building, previously thought to be a bull pen, is Hooton Pagnell now believed to have originally been built as a stable with hayloft. The second building was a good example of a threshing barn.
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY5750 Hooton Pagnell, Doncaster Burgage Plots Y Y HSY229 Former Open Fields around Hooton Pagnell Surveyed Enclosure Y (Parliamentary/ Private) HSY5749 All Saints Aided Primary School, Doncaster School Y
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Allocation Reference: 293 Area (Ha): 0.17 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 4868 0812 Site Name: Home Farm 9, Hooton Pagnell Settlement: Hooton Pagnell
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 - 2 Listed Building - 23 SMR record/event - 7 records/2 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest No No Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a
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Allocation Reference: 293 Area (Ha): 0.17 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 4868 0812 Site Name: Home Farm 9, Hooton Pagnell Settlement: Hooton Pagnell
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR records seven monuments and two events within the buffer zone. No monuments or events are recorded within the site. Two Scheduled Monuments and 23 listed buildings (one grade I; one grade II* & 21 grade II) are recorded within the buffer zone, none within the site. The Scheduled Monuments relate to a churchyard cross at All Saints’ Church and a market cross. 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/Roman field boundaries are present to the east and southeast of the site. Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and the northern and southern ends of the buffer as burgage plots of Hooton Pagnell. The pattern of property boundaries conforms to one of a typical medieval strip village with traditional narrow plots set between a main street and a 'Back Lane'. Many of the village houses contain 17th century or earlier elements. The majority of the eastern side of the buffer is characterised as former open fields around Hooton Pagnell, an area containing a well-preserved enclosed surveyed strip layout. 'North Field' and 'Back Field' may be Parliamentary period enclosures as they have very straight internal boundaries. Hooton Pagnell was enclosed 'by agreement' in 1796. Since 1851 only minor boundary loss and amalgamation of field units has occurred. The preservation of the earlier boundaries around the large open field units and the older routes through the fields constitutes partial legibility of medieval landscape features. The site currently comprises of a sub-rectangular enclosure under pasture to the rear of the main street through Hooton Pagnell. The site is enclosed by a hedge and wall. Along its eastern side is an entrance through the wall providing access from Back Lane. A break in the boundary exists along its northern edge providing access to the farm. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The 1851-1854 OS map depicts the site as part of a larger field located to the rear of structures fronting the main street through Hooton Pagnell. Back Lane was marked running parallel to the eastern edge of the site. The 1893 OS map depicted a footpath running through the site on an east-west alignment linking the main street through the village with a lane recorded as Narrow Baulk, which extended eastwards between two fields. The field in which the site is located remained largely unaltered until prior to 1982, at which time the western half of the field (within the buffer zone) was developed for housing, creating the current site boundary. Within the buffer, by 1854 the basic road structure present today was extant, with many buildings clustered around the main street. A trough was marked on Clayton Lane and to the east and west of the site were fields. In 1892, a school was present to the southwest of the site, and the location of the market cross was noted on the map. At this time also, a Manor House was marked to the northwest of the site. By 1906, this was no longer labelled, although the building appeared to still exist. In 1930, a pump was marked at the approximate location of the 1851 trough and a war memorial was present just to the north of the market cross. By 1991, the school had been relocated to the north of Clayton Lane. With the exception of temporary agricultural buildings, very little development is evident in the buffer from historic map analysis, and the surrounding fields to the east and west of the site still exist today as they were shown in 1854. Survival: The site appears to have been maintained as pasture. Prior to its current form, created in the 1980s, it is likely that cultivation had taken place at the site since at least the 18th century. Due to the relative lack of deep ground disturbance, the likely survival of any unrecorded buried archaeology is considered to be moderate.
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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 photography shows the site as under pasture. The 2008 and 2009 coverage suggests that some limited ground disturbance caused by vehicle access as occurred on the site. There is no available Lidar data for the site. Photograph references: Google Earth images 1999, 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009. SE4907/5 NMR 12125/38 26-Jul-1991; SE4808/17 NMR 12125/54 26-Jul-1991.
Statutory Designations Reference Name Designation/ Site? Buffer? ID Grade 1012936 Cross in the churchyard of All Saints' Church SM Y 1012937 Market cross SM Y 1151625 Crossbase with shaft, situated immediately to south of porch to II Y Church of All Saints 1151630 Twitchell Corner II Y 1151634 Roadside farmbuilding immediately to north of Manor Farmhouse II Y 1151635 Barn immediately to south east of Watchley Farmhouse II Y 1151636 Barn approximately 10 metres to north of Mappleyard Farmhouse II Y 1151637 Rock Farmhouse II Y 1151638 Forge Cottage II Y 1151639 Village Cross immediately to north west of Ivy Cottage II Y 1192355 Hooton Pagnell Hall including archway flat numbers 1 and 2 Hall II* Y Cottages, Ground Floor Flat, First Floor Flat and Pump End 1192520 Manor Farmhouse II Y 1192534 Home Farmhouse II Y 1192538 Wheatcroft House II Y 1192563 The Hostel II Y 1192581 Wayside Cottage II Y 1286528 The Old Forge II Y 1286540 Falcon House II Y 1286549 Watchley Farmhouse II Y 1286551 Ivy Cottage II Y 1314774 Roadside Cottage II Y 1314775 Barn approximately 20 metres to south west of Ivy Cottage II Y
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1314776 House known as Number 5 II Y 1314777 Corner cottage, Ivy House II Y 1314808 Church of All Saints I Y
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 00016/01 Iron Age or Iron Age trackway, field boundaries and octagonal enclosure Y Romano-British recorded as cropmarks. cropmark features, Hooton Pagnell 00357/01 All Saints Church, Early Norman church with some later medieval additions and Y Hooton Pagnell alterations. 00359/01 Medieval Market Steps, socket and part of shaft of typical medieval market Y Cross, Hooton cross, dating to 1253? Pagnell 00361/01 Medieval Cross in Socket stone now supporting shaft with sundial on south side Y All Saints' churchyard. Probably not in situ (not shown on prints of Churchyard, church c. 1730) . Hooton Pagnell 02432/01 Medieval Grave Grave Cover in All Saints Church. Y Cover in All Saints Church, Hooton Pagnell 03573/03 Hooton Pagnell Hall A small park consisting of 65 acres with limited landscaping of Y Park the adjacent field to the house to the west called the 'Maple Yard' which is separated from the Hall by Watchley Lane. 05609 Post-medieval Agricultural buildings arranged around two parallel yards. The Y agricultural buildings date from the 18th to the 20th centuries, with the buildings at earliest structure a large threshing barn. Other structures Mappleyard Farm, include stables, byres, stores and shelter sheds. Most of the Hooton Pagnell buildings were assessed in 2005. ESY366 Archaeological In July 2005 an archaeological assessment and building Y Assessment and appraisal was undertaken for Mappleyard Farm. The earliest Buildings Appraisal structure is a large 18th century threshing barn with of Mappleyard characteristic triangular vents. It is suggested that earlier sub- Farm surface remains are unlikely to be disturbed within the site boundary. ESY1370 Building survey at Buildings survey of two buildings at Mappleyard Farm, Hooton Y Mappleyard Farm, Pagnell. One building, previously thought to be a bull pen, is Hooton Pagnell now believed to have originally been built as a stable with hayloft. The second building was a good example of a threshing barn.
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY229 Former Open Fields around Hooton Pagnell Surveyed Enclosure Y (Parliamentary/ Private) HSY4149 Mappleyard Plantation, Hooton Pagnell, Plantation Y Doncaster HSY4150 Mapple Yard, Hooton Pagnell, Doncaster Surveyed Enclosure Y
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(Parliamentary/ Private) HSY5747 All Saints' Church, Hooton Pagnell, Doncaster Religious (Worship) Y HSY5748 Hooton Pagnell Hall, Hooton Pagnell, Elite Residence Y Doncaster HSY5749 All Saints Aided Primary School, Doncaster School Y HSY5750 Hooton Pagnell, Doncaster Burgage Plots Y Y
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Allocation Reference: 299 Area (Ha): 11.14 Allocation Type: Housing/Employment NGR (centre): SK 6449 9929 Site Name: Orchard Farm, Hurst Lane Settlement: Finningley
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 4 records 3 records/4 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: 299 Area (Ha): 11.14 Allocation Type: Housing/Employment NGR (centre): SK 6449 9929 Site Name: Orchard Farm, Hurst Lane Settlement: Finningley
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR records four findspots within the site. Two findspots, one monument and three events are recorded within the buffer. The finds within the site relate to Roman and medieval pottery found on the surface of the ploughed field. A Roman brooch and prehistoric stone axe have been found within the buffer, the brooch immediately to the south of (and possibly actually from) the site, whilst the area of recorded remains associated with Roman Doncaster’s pottery industry extends into the northwest side of the buffer. The events within the buffer comprised a survey at Hurst Plantation to the south of the site identified only recent activity, with the subsoils located at fairly shallow depths and probably disturbed by replanting of the trees. To the east and northeast of the site, evaluations associated with Robin Hood airport included geophysical survey, with possible pits and a curvilinear ditch identified at the eastern side of the survey area, followed by evaluation that recorded ridge and furrow cultivation in the area closest to the site. There are no listed buildings or Scheduled Monuments within the site or buffer. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project does not record any features within the site. Two areas of earthwork ridge and furrow are shown at the northwest and southeast edges of the buffer. Historic Environment Characterisation records the site as regular fields demarcated by hedgerows and drainage ditches and dating to the 1778 Parliamentary Enclosure award. Further character zones within the buffer include ancient woodland and later plantations, further surveyed enclosure and drained wetland, and a planned social housing estate. The site is currently two large field areas, in a mixture of pasture and arable cultivation. A series of buildings relating to Orchard Farm are located at its centre. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The 1854 OS map depicted the site as ‘Colt Field’, two rectangular fields located immediately west of Hurst Lane. By 1893 an area of woodland was shown within the buffer immediately to the north (Hanging Carr) and south (Savage Wood). It is not until the 1961 OS map that structures relating to what is now Orchard Farm were recorded within the site. Access was provided by a lane that traversed the northern edge of the site from Hurst Lane. Hanging Carr Farm had also been established by this date, resulting in the clearance of the woodland. By 1967 the settlement of Finningley had expanded south to its present location. By 1983 Orchard Farm was recorded as a Poultry Farm, and an additional enclosure had been laid out in the northwest part of the site. A small farm had also been established within the buffer to the south of the site, known as Oak’s Farm. Survival: The majority of the site has been farmland since at least the mid-19th century. Ploughing may have damaged or truncated sub-surface deposits, but beneath the plough zone, the potential for the survival of buried archaeological remains is likely to be moderate to high. Within the vicinity of Orchard Farm, the building footprints may have truncated or damaged below-ground archaeological deposits and features. The extent of cellarage within these buildings is currently unknown. Beneath the structures and farmyard, the potential for survival of buried archaeological remains is low to moderate. Several finds of Roman and medieval pottery have been recorded within the site, suggesting there is the potential for associated buried features. Further investigations: Further archaeological investigations are likely to be required if the site is brought forward for development. Significance: The significance of any features associated with the finds of Roman and medieval pottery is currently unknown.
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Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: The 2002-2015 aerial photographs show the site as being a mixture of pasture and cultivated fields, with some cultivated areas later used as pasture. A series of small enclosures were established in the western part of the site by 2005, possibly for free-range poultry. No cropmark features were noted in the eastern field, though conditions were rarely suitable for the formation of cropmarks. The Lidar data does not show any features not recorded on historic mapping. Visible earthworks mainly relate to field boundaries and buildings. Photograph references: Google Earth Coverage: 2002; 2003; 2005; 2008; 2009 & 2015. Lidar data file SK6499. Photos transcribed by the Magnesian Limestone Project: Ridge and furrow: RAF/541/35 3040 19-May-1948.
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 00442/01 Roman pottery Roman and Medieval pottery from ploughed field south of Y from Hanging Carr Hanging Carr. 00442/02 Medieval pottery Medieval pottery from ploughed field south of Hanging Carr. Y from Hanging Carr 00973/01 Roman pottery, 2nd century roman pottery recovered through ploughing. Y Auckley 02821/01 Romano-British Romano-British brooch (1st century AD) found in 1987 after Y Brooch Find, removal of sugar beet. Auckley 03434/01 Neolithic Green Greenstone axe (11.5cm long) found at Hayfields Farm. Y Stone Axe, Hayfields Farm, Auckley 04303/01 Roman Pottery, A quantity of 2nd century Roman pottery found during Y Auckley ploughing. 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. ESY285 Geophysical Survey In April 2006 a geophysical survey was undertaken for the Y for the Robin Hood access route for Robin Hood airport. The results indicated the Airport Access presence of anomalies likely to reflect ridge and furrow Route cultivation. ESY291 Archaeological A walk-over survey of the site and woodland survey revealed Y Evaluation at Hurst linear ditches running through the plantation. These were Plantation interpreted as artificial and must have been created before the replanting of the site in the 1980s. A number of features probably relate to quarrying activity and an oval depression was located approx 5m across at its widest point, which may be a small quarry for either sand or gravel extraction. Test-pits show that the natural sands and gravels are between 20cm and 60cm below the ground surface in most areas and it is likely that these thin soils were heavily disturbed during replanting. ESY632 Archaeological A programme of archaeological field evaluation was Y Evaluation Robin undertaken at two sites, off Hurst Lane (Access Route) and Hood Airport Hayfield Lane (Rail and Business park site) in the vicinity of
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Business Park, Rail Robin Hood Airport near Doncaster, South Yorkshire. A ditch of Station and Access unknown date was recorded within the Hayfield Lane Site and Route some possible remnant furrows were recorded at the Hurst Lane Site. ESY1376 Geophysical survey, Geophysical survey was undertaken on a plot of land at Hurst Y Hurst Lane, Lane. Possible archaeological features were concentrated at Hayfield Green the eastern part of the site, and consisted of possible pits and a curvilinear ditch.
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY4612 Hayfield Lane, Auckley, Doncaster Surveyed Enclosure Y Y (Parliamentary/ Private) HSY4489 Finningley Big Wood, Finningley, Doncaster Ancient Woodland Y HSY4544 Savage Wood, Auckley, Doncaster Plantation Y HSY4545 The Carrs, Auckley, Doncaster Drained Wetland Y HSY4570 Hurst Lane, Auckley, Doncaster Assarts Y HSY4574 Twelve Months Carr, Auckley, Doncaster Plantation Y HSY4575 Mill Fields, Auckley, Doncaster Surveyed Enclosure Y (Parliamentary/ Private) HSY4647 Elm Road, Finningley, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y
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Allocation Reference: 302 Area (Ha): 3.79 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SK 6248 9759 Site Name: Land off Stripe Road, Rossington (1) 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 1 record 3 records/1 event Cropmark/Lidar evidence Yes Yes Cartographic features of interest No No Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a
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Allocation Reference: 302 Area (Ha): 3.79 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SK 6248 9759 Site Name: Land off Stripe Road, Rossington (1) Settlement: Rossington
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR records one monument within the site, relating to the line of a possible Roman road running on a north- south alignment through the eastern edge of the site. The feature extends into the buffer zone to both the north and the south, although the exact function is unclear and it could equally be a pipeline. No remains associated with this feature appear to have been recorded during evaluation within the buffer to the immediate north of the site. Within the buffer zone, two further monuments are recorded; an early Iron Age/Romano-British trackway has been recorded just outside the south-eastern corner of the site, with a second similar feature recorded to the east of the site. One event is recorded in the buffer, to the east of the site. This relates to a geophysical survey and evaluation, which identified features forming part of a Romano-British field system. 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 recorded a possible enclosure and field boundary of probable Iron Age to Romano-British date, with associated boundaries extending into the southern and eastern half of the buffer zone. The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and part of the southern buffer zone as agglomerated fields, with fragmentary legibility of the former Church Field strip enclosures, mainly through the field name and (partial) external boundary. The vast majority of the buffer zone is modern housing, with no legibility of the former enclosed landscape. The site currently comprises a triangular plot of arable land, with a small concentration of woodland at the northern end. A railway line runs along the eastern boundary, Stripe Road runs along the western boundary, and a small track runs along the southern boundary. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The site is shown on the 1854 OS map as part of three strip fields, labelled Church Fields. The basic site shape and arrangement is the same as it is today, with the railway line of the Great Northern Railway along the eastern site boundary, Stripe Road (then called Stripe Lane) along the western site boundary, and a track along the southern boundary, labelled Middle Lane. By 1948, the internal field boundaries had been removed, leaving a single triangular plot of land with a small sliver of woodland in the north-western corner. Within the buffer zone, the area surrounding the site in 1854 was predominantly fields and some small plantations. The land immediately to the south of the site comprised numerous strip fields, forming part of Church Field. A small area of woodland, labelled Church Field Plantation, was located in the south-western corner of the this field. The Great Northern Railway was already extant, aligned roughly northwest to southeast. By 1894, Stripe Lane had been renamed to Stripe Road and Gravel Hill Plantation, which was present on the 1854 map to the east of the site, had expanded considerably. By this time, Hunster Grange had been built to the southwest of the site. By 1903, Gravel Hill Plantation had extended further to the west, and a new plantation, Sixteen Acre, had been established to the southeast of the site. By 1962 most of the strip boundaries had been removed from the field to the immediate south of the site, as had Church Field Plantation. By 1967, a modern housing estate was present, butting up to the north-western site boundary, with further expansion to the south by 1992. Survival: Due to the relative lack of deep ground disturbance on the site, the potential for the survival of any previously unrecorded buried archaeological remains is considered to be high. Cropmarks of Iron Age to Roman field systems and a possible enclosure are recorded within the site and buffer. Further investigations: Further archaeological investigations will be required if the site is brought forward for development.
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Significance: The Iron Age/Romano-British field boundaries recorded within the site are part of a wider landscape of features of this date. Remains associated with these features could be of Local to Regional archaeological significance depending on their nature, extent and condition. Note: the northern part of Site 302 is also designated as Site 305.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: Google Earth images from 2002 show the site much as it was depicted on the 1992 map. Trees are present at the northern end of the site and partially down the eastern and western site boundaries. A small track leads from Clay Flat Lane and runs southwards adjacent to the railway line, to Middle Lane at the south of the site. There has been no evident change on the site since. Within the buffer zone, since the 1992 OS map, a housing development has been built to the east of the site, butting up to the railway line. No cropmarks were visible within any of the photographs, though conditions were not ideal in any of the photographs. Possible cropmark ditches were visible in the field to the south on the 2009 photograph. There is no available Lidar data for the site. Photograph references: Google Earth images 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012 & 2015. SK6297/8 DNR 1066/16 29-Jun-1975; SK6297/15 DNR 1295/19 09-Jul-1979; MAL/82012 0140 29-May-1982.
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 01877/01 Linear cropmark Possible Roman road, possibly a pipeline. Y Y feature, Rossington 02467/01 Iron Age to Possible Iron Age or Romano-British field system and trackway Y Romano-British shown on aerial photographs. The excavation of the turned up period Field System evidence for field-systems which covered a very wide area, but and Trackway, at a low density of occupation and without a specific focus of Rossington activity. 02675/01 Iron Age or Iron Age or Romano-British trackway recorded as a cropmark. Y Romano-British Trackway, Rossington ESY346 Geophysical Survey Geophysical survey identified a number of anomalies Y and excavations, representing linear ditch features as well as possible pit type Stripe Road, features. The linear anomalies do not seem to correspond well Rossington with known cropmarks and the pit feature may be due to variation in the subsoil, which may be due to errors in plotting cropmarks from aerial photographs. Archaeological evaluation revealed features forming part of a Romano-British field system.
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY4442 Church Field, Rossington, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y Y HSY4720 Clay Flat Lane, New Rossington, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y HSY4747 Church Field estate, Rossington, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y
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HSY4749 Station Road, Rossington, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y HSY4762 Parklands Close, Rossington, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y HSY4778 Rossington Comprehensive School, Rossington, School Y Doncaster HSY4780 Hall View Road, New Rossington, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y
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Allocation Reference: 303 Area (Ha): 2.83 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 5665 1335 Site Name: Land off Highfield Road, Askern Settlement: Askern
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 - - Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest No Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a
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Allocation Reference: 303 Area (Ha): 2.83 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 5665 1335 Site Name: Land off Highfield Road, Askern Settlement: Askern
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 located 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. Within the buffer zone, post-medieval ridge and furrow cultivation remains were recorded as cropmarks to the southwest of the site. Historic Environment Characterisation records the site as part of an area characterised as part of a public park area associated with Askern Lake. The lake, in the western part of the buffer, may be a naturally-formed water body in an area historically subject to waterlogging, and may have been landscaped during the spa town phase in the 18th to 19th centuries. The site itself is divided from the main part of the park by a railway line and does not appear to form part of the recreation grounds. Further character zones within the buffer include an industrial area to the southwest, with the principal complex being a sawmill, the urban commercial core of Askern at the northwest edge; late 19th-century townhouses and early 20th-century terraces at the northern edge, a school and planned miners' housing estates to the north and northeast; and drained wetland at Askern Common to the southeast. The site is currently a field in rough grass vegetation, bounded to the west by the railway line and to the north by modern housing. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The site formed part of Askern Common at the time of Thomas Jefferys’ 1771 map of Yorkshire. The majority of the site was shown as part of a larger field on the 1818 Campsall, Norton and Askern enclosure plan, while small areas of adjacent fields extended into the site at the east and northwest. The watercourse along the site’s southern boundary, marked ‘Mill Goit’ in 1818 and Mill Dike in 1854, probably channelled water to Askern Mill to the northeast. The 1818 enclosure boundaries had been removed by 1854, when the site was shown as a single field, in almost its current layout, with the Yorkshire and Lancashire Railway along the western boundary. By 1932, the field had been divided into two. By 1961, it was a single field again, with a house built in the northeast corner by 1975, creating the current site boundary. Within the buffer, the 1854 map shows the area surrounding the site to the east and north as regular, mainly narrow enclosures formerly part of Askern Common. Rushy Moor Lane ran through the buffer to the east of the site and Askern Common Road to the north. A National School and a cottage were shown to the south of the latter road. Askern Lake was depicted at the western edge of the buffer, along with several spa baths and a lounge. By 1893, further housing was shown to the north and south of Askern Common Road, and a Methodist chapel and Sunday School. Further housing was shown in this area by 1932, and continuing east along the road. The spa baths were no longer shown at that date. A small tennis ground was shown in a field to the east of the site. By 1961, housing had extended south up to the northern edge of the site, and a recreation ground was shown to the east. To the west of the railway was a further playing field adjacent to the lake, with an area of raised ground or spoil tipping to the south. The housing to the north of the site may have been pre-fabs, as this area had mostly been cleared by 1975. The recreation ground to the west of the railway had extended south by that date, and a house called Greenacres was shown in the corner of the field containing the site. New housing had been built to the north of the site by 1986. Survival: There has been no recorded sub-surface disturbance within the site on any of the historic maps or aerial photographs. Any use for arable cultivation may have caused some truncation to sub-surface deposits, but in general the potential for the survival of unrecorded buried archaeology is considered to be moderate.
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Further investigations: Further archaeological investigations may be required if the site is brought forward for development. Significance: Unknown.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: The 2002 aerial photograph shows the site as a field, which had been mowed and may have been used for hay cultivation. It was crossed by several footpaths. The field to the east and the area west of the railway were shown as recreation grounds. By 2008, the vegetation was rough grass and it remained unchanged by 2015. There is no Lidar coverage for this site. Photograph references: Google Earth coverage 2002, 2008, 2009 & 2015. RAF/541/31 3407 18-May-1948.
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY365 Askern Lake Public Park Y Y HSY354 Askern Town Centre Commercial Core-Urban Y HSY356 Terraced housing to the east of Askern village Terraced Housing Y HSY364 Askern Mather / Sawmill Other Industry 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 HSY4370 Former Askern Common, Askern, Doncaster Drained Wetland Y HSY5700 Askern Moss Road, Doncaster School Y
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Allocation Reference: 304 Area (Ha): 1.042 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SK 5185 9920 Site Name: Land off Windgate Hill, 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 - 3 records Cropmark/Lidar evidence Yes Yes Cartographic features of interest No No Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a
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Allocation Reference: 304 Area (Ha): 1.042 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SK 5185 9920 Site Name: Land off Windgate Hill, Conisbrough Settlement: Conisbrough
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR records no events or monuments within the site itself. Within the buffer zone, three monuments are recorded, all of which are findspots located to the east of the site. These comprise a collection of flint implements found on the surface of ploughed field on the bank of the River Don, and three retouched flint flakes and waste flakes found in a ploughed field. 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 records two lynchet earthworks of medieval to post-medieval date, one within the southeast part of the site and a parallel lynchet extending southwards into the buffer zone. Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and much of the southern and eastern area of the buffer as a private housing estate, mostly laid out between 1948 and 1973. The area developed as a result of a number of piecemeal housing developments, mostly fossilising earlier piecemeal enclosure boundaries and features, leaving partial legibility of historic boundary features. Within the buffer to the immediate north of the site, the area is characterised as a 20th-century sewage works, with no legibility of the earlier valley floor landscape. To the west of the site is a variety of character areas comprising housing and industrial plots, with fragmentary legibility of former landscapes. One area of historic landfill is recorded at the eastern end of the buffer zone, the Burcroft Sewage Works. The site currently comprises a single plot of scrubland. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The 1854 OS map shows the site as part of a single field. By 1902 the northern site boundary had been established with the creation of the sewage works to the north of the site. The remaining of the site boundaries had been created by 1976, with the development of houses on Burcroft Hill and Windmill Hill. No structures or features have been depicted on the site since at least 1854. Within the buffer, the River Don is located to the north of the site. In 1854 an area called Windgate Hill is present to the south of the site, and a little further south, an area called Minney Moor. To the west was an area marked Bur Croft, with a small amount of development including a mill. By 1892, roads had been established to the south. These were un-named, but are the same pattern of roads that are visible to the south of the site today; Windgate Hill and Minney Moor Hill. A spring was located just outside of the northern boundary, Old Quarry was marked within the area of Windgate Hill, and Conisbrough Gasworks had been established to the immediate southwest of the site. Don Saw Mills and a smithy were located to the east of the site, together with a row of probable houses along Burcroft Hill. The area to the north of the site, to the south of the River Don, was marked as liable to floods. By 1902 a Sewage Works had been constructed to the immediate north of the site. This had been extended by 1930, and Windgate Cottage had been built off Windgate Lane. To the southeast of the site were allotment gardens. By 1962, houses around Minney Moor Hill and Minney Moor Lane were under construction and further houses had been built off Windgate Hill, to the immediate south of the site by 1976. At this date a scrapyard was located to the immediate west of the site, off Burcroft Hill. Survival: Due to the relative lack of deep ground disturbance on the site, the potential for the survival of any previously unrecorded heritage assets is considered to be high. It is unclear whether the medieval to post-medieval lynchets recorded as earthworks in 1948 still survive on the site. Further investigations: Further archaeological investigation may be required if the site is brought forward for development.
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Significance: Unknown. Surviving earthwork remains of the lynchets are considered to be of Local archaeological significance.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: Twenty-first century aerial photography shows the site to be open scrubland, with several mature trees along the northern and western boundaries. It is not possible to ascertain if the lynchets recorded within the site in 1948 still survive as an earthwork. There is no available Lidar data for the site. Photograph references: Google Earth Images 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2015. RAF/541/170 4233 21-Sep-1948.
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 01933/01 Flint Implement Flint implements found on surface of ploughed field on bank of Y Finds, Cadeby River Don 1977/8. 01934/01 Flint Tool Finds, The following flint tools were found on the surface of a Y bank of River Don, ploughed field on the bank of River Don 1977/78; 1 Awl, 1 Cadeby Microlith, 1 Utilised Flake, 1 Retouched Flake. 02427/01 Flint Flakes, west of Three retouched flint flakes and waste flakes found in Y Conisborough ploughed field west of Conisbrough Viaduct by Mr. A. Peace in Viaduct, Cadeby 1978. An assessment of the flints collected from the Cadeby River Don/Viaduct site (Site A1) has identified items dating from the Mesolithic through to the early Bronze Age from this general area.
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY5376 Suburban expansion north east of Private Housing Estate Y Y Conisbrough, Doncaster HSY4244 Dolomite Quarry, Cadeby, Doncaster Quarry Y HSY4280 The Earth Centre (Former Cadeby Colliery), Tourist Attraction Y Conisborough, Doncaster HSY5347 Conisbrough Castle, Conisbrough, Doncaster Fortified Site Y HSY5391 The Castle Inn, Conisbrough, Doncaster Water Powered Site Y HSY5392 Housing east of Conisbrough Castle, Semi-Detached Housing Y Conisbrough, Doncaster HSY5397 Sewage Works, North of Conisbrough, Utilities Y Doncaster HSY5398 Site of Conisbrough Gas Works, Conisbrough, Utilities Y Doncaster HSY5410 Nearcliff and Farcliffe Woods, Conisbrough, Semi Natural Woodland Y Doncaster HSY5431 Burcroft Hill, Conisbrough, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y
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HSY5433 Castle Grove Terrace, Burcroft, Conisbrough, Terraced Housing Y Doncaster HSY5440 Burcroft Mill, Conisbrough, Doncaster Water Powered Site Y HSY5441 Burcroft Hill, Conisbrough, Doncaster Other Industry Y HSY5442 Bentinick and Taylor Streets, Conisbrough, Terraced Housing Y Doncaster HSY5443 Kearsley Brook, Conisbrough, Doncaster Semi Natural Woodland Y HSY5598 Nursery gardens, Milner Gate, Conisbrough, Nursery Y Doncaster HSY5599 Minney Moor Recreation Ground, Playing Fields/ Recreation ground Y Conisbrough, Doncaster
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Allocation Reference: 305 Area (Ha): 1.191 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SK 6244 9768 Site Name: Land off Stripe Road, Rossington (2) 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 - 3 records/1 event Cropmark/Lidar evidence Yes Yes Cartographic features of interest No No Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a
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Allocation Reference: 305 Area (Ha): 1.191 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SK 6244 9768 Site Name: Land off Stripe Road, Rossington (2) Settlement: Rossington
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR does not record any features within the site. Three monuments and one event are recorded within the buffer zone: at the south-eastern corner of the buffer an early Iron Age/Romano-British trackway has been recorded, with a second similar feature recorded to the east of the site. The line of a possible Roman road also runs on a north-south alignment through the eastern part of the buffer, although the function is this feature is not certain, and it could relate to a pipeline. The event comprises evaluations to the immediate northeast of the site, where geophysical survey and evaluation revealed features forming part of a Romano-British field system. 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 recorded fragmentary traces of probable Iron Age to Romano-British field boundaries at the southern end of the site, extending into the southern and eastern parts of the buffer zone, with the eastern area having since been confirmed by archaeological evaluation. The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and part of the southern buffer zone as agglomerated fields, with fragmentary legibility of the former Church Field strip enclosures, mainly through the field name and (partial) external boundary. The vast majority of the buffer zone is modern housing, with no legibility of the former enclosed landscape. The site currently comprises a triangular plot of arable land, with a small concentration of woodland at the northern end. A railway line runs along the eastern boundary, Stripe Road runs along with western boundary. The southern boundary is not denoted on the ground. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The site is shown on the 1854 OS map as part of three strip fields, labelled Church Fields. The basic site shape and arrangement is the same as it is today, with the railway line of the Great Northern Railway along the eastern site boundary, Stripe Road (then called Stripe Lane) along the western site boundary. By 1948, the internal field boundaries had been removed, leaving a single triangular plot of land with a small sliver of woodland in the north-western corner. Within the buffer zone, the area surrounding the site in 1854 was predominantly fields, with some small plantations. An east-west aligned track just outside the southern boundary was labelled Middle Lane, with the land immediately to the south comprising numerous strip fields formerly part of Church Field. A small area of woodland, labelled Church Field Plantation, is located in the southwest corner of the this field. The Great Northern Railway ran along the eastern site boundary, aligned roughly northwest to southeast. By 1894, Stripe Lane, along the western site boundary, had been renamed Stripe Road and Gravel Hill Plantation, which was present on the 1854 map to the east of the site, had expanded considerably. Hunster Grange had been built to the southwest of the site. By 1903, Gravel Hill Plantation had extended further to the west, and a new plantation, Sixteen Acre, had been established to the southeast of the site. By 1962 most of the strip boundaries had been removed from the field to the immediate south of the site, as had Church Field Plantation. By 1967, a modern housing estate was present, butting up to the north-western site boundary, extending south by 1992. Survival: Due to the relative lack of deep ground disturbance on the site, the survival of any previously unrecorded buried archaeological remains is considered to be high. Cropmarks of a probable Iron Age to Roman field boundary are recorded within the site, with further remains in the buffer. Further investigations: Further archaeological investigations will be required if the site is brought forward for development.
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Significance: The Iron Age/Romano-British field boundaries recorded within the site are part of a wider landscape of features of this date. Remains associated with these features could be of Local to Regional archaeological significance depending on their nature, extent and condition. Note: this site forms part of larger Site 302.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: Google Earth images from 2002 show few changes within the site since the 1992 map. Trees are present at the northern end of the site and down the eastern and western site boundaries. A small track leads from Clay Flat Lane and runs southwards adjacent to the railway line and beyond the southern boundary of the site to join Middle Lane to the south of the site. There has been no evident change on the site since. Within the buffer zone, since the 1992 OS map, a housing development has been built to the east of the site, butting up to the railway line. No cropmarks were visible within any of the photographs, though conditions were not ideal for this purpose. There is no available Lidar data for the site. Photograph references: Google Earth images 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012 & 2015. SK6297/8 DNR 1066/16 29-Jun-1975; SK6297/15 DNR 1295/19 09-Jul-1979; MAL/82012 0140 29-May-1982.
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 01877/01 Linear cropmark Possible Roman road, or possible a pipeline. Y feature, Rossington 02467/01 Iron Age to Possible Iron Age or Romano-British field system and trackway Y Romano-British shown on aerial photographs. The excavation of the area in period Field System question turned up evidence for field-systems which covered a and Trackway, very wide area, but at a low density of occupation and without Rossington a specific focus of activity. 02675/01 Iron Age or Iron Age or Romano-British trackway. Y Romano-British Trackway, Rossington ESY346 Geophysical Survey Geophysical survey identified a number of anomalies Y and excavations, representing linear ditch features as well as possible pit type Stripe Road, features. The linear anomalies do not seem to correspond well Rossington with known cropmarks and the pit feature may be due to variation in the subsoil, which may be due to errors in plotting cropmarks from aerial photographs. Archaeological evaluation revealed features forming part of a [Romano-British] field system.
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SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY4442 Church Field, Rossington, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y Y HSY4720 Clay Flat Lane, New Rossington, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y HSY4747 Church Field estate, Rossington, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y HSY4749 Station Road, Rossington, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y HSY4762 Parklands Close, Rossington, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y
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Allocation Reference: 306 Area (Ha): 11.56 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SK 6088 9745 Site Name: Land off Grange Lane, Rossington 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 1 record 2 records/2 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence Yes Yes Cartographic features of interest No Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a
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Allocation Reference: 306 Area (Ha): 11.56 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SK 6088 9745 Site Name: Land off Grange Lane, Rossington Settlement: Rossington
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR records one monument within the site, part of a more extensive area of Iron Age to Roman enclosures and field systems recorded as cropmarks. This continues south and west into the buffer, where evaluation and excavation demonstrated the survival of buried features associated with the cropmarks, including two Bronze Age ring barrows and a large late Iron Age ditched enclosure, which formed the hub of a complex field system maintained throughout the Roman period. Some possible industrial activity was recorded within several small enclosures. An early Bronze Age Beaker-period urn was found during grave digging at the burial ground to the immediate west of the site. With the barrows excavated to the south, this suggests that the area was a focus for Bronze Age burial activity. 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 cropmarks showing a small sub-square enclosure and field boundaries within the site, associated with the Iron Age to Roman enclosures and field systems excavated to the south and west. The cropmarks continue into this area of the buffer, as well as to the east, in an area that has been built over since the photographs were taken. Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and much of the buffer as agglomerated fields, where field boundary removal in the 20th century has led to a loss of the former character of strip fields. Further character zones within the buffer include Holmes Carr Great Wood to the north, which is an area of ancient woodland; a cemetery to the west of the site, and planned social housing estates and a school to the east and northeast. Historic Landfill data records a former tip in the northern part of the buffer, associated with Rossington Main Colliery. The site is currently a field in arable use, with the northern boundary formed by Grange Lane and the eastern boundary by housing. A cemetery is located to the west. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The 1854 OS map shows the site as part of four fields, within an area of strip fields to the south of Grange Lane. The only boundary still recognisable from that date is the lane. By 1962, most of the field boundaries had been removed, and the majority of the current eastern boundary had been established by 1966. No field boundaries were shown within the site or to the south by 1985, when the northern part of the eastern boundary was first depicted. Within the buffer, the 1854 map depicted Rossington Grange to the west of the site, and Holmes Carr Wood to the north. The remaining area was strip fields, labelled Ings Field, possibly indicating an origin as valley floor meadows. By 1930, housing estates at New Rossington colliery village had extended into the northeast and east edges of the buffer. A small burial ground was shown to the immediate west of the site at that date, with a lodge and mortuary. Further housing was under construction to the north of Grange Lane by 1948. Housing was shown to the immediate east of the site by 1966, with a social club added by 1985. Survival: The site has been in agricultural use since at least the mid-19th century and probably much earlier. This may have caused some truncation to sub-surface deposits, though the potential for the survival of buried archaeology below the plough zone is likely to be high. This was demonstrated at the site to the southwest, where remains of Iron Age to Roman settlement and agricultural activity were recorded, as well as Bronze Age barrows. Cropmark features relating to Iron Age to Roman field ditches and a small enclosure have been recorded within the site, and it is likely that more extensive remains will survive as buried features.
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Further investigations: Further archaeological investigations will be required if the site is brought forward for development. Significance: Remains associated with Iron Age to Roman settlement and agriculture, or of Bronze Age burials and associated activity could be of Local to Regional archaeological significance, depending on their extent, nature and condition.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: The 2002 aerial photograph showed the site as two fields, divided only by different crop regimes rather than physical boundaries. The south and west boundaries of the site were also formed in this manner. Two linear field boundary ditches of probable Iron Age to Roman date are visible as cropmarks within the site, though the crop is not at an ideal stage for the formation of cropmarks and all the features recorded by the Magnesian Limestone Aerial Mapping Project are not clear. On later photographs, the site is mainly recently ploughed and no cropmarks are visible. The public house to the east of the site was demolished between 2002 and 2003, and housing had been built on its location by 2008. By 2012, the area to the southwest had been stripped of topsoil and was in the preliminary stages of development, with archaeological evaluation trenches and open area excavations visible. There is no Lidar coverage for this site. Photograph references: Google Earth coverage 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009 & 2012.
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 00968/01 Early Bronze Age Urn of beaker period (type A) with lines and chevrons in comb Y Cinerary Urn pattern ornament. Found in 1948 during grave-digging 01793/01 Possible Iron Age or Enclosures and field boundaries, dating from the late Iron Age Y Y Romano-British to the 4th century Enclosures and Field System at Rossington. ESY1390 Evaluations at Fieldwalking, geophysical survey and trial trenching at a site Y Rossington Grange near Rossington Grange Farm, Rossington. A very modest Farm, Rossington collection of finds, consisting of Roman pottery and prehistoric flints was retrieved during the fieldwalking. A field system in use between the late Iron Age to 4th century was identified via geophysical survey and subsequent trenching. Two circular, undated features were also investigated. ESY1391 Excavation at Area excavation at a site at Rossington Grange Farm, Y Rossington Grange Rossington. Two pen-annular ring barrows were excavated, Farm, Rossington one of which contained two Bronze Age urns containing cremated human remains. A large ditched enclosure was established in the late Iron Age, and over the 1st and 2nd centuries this provided the hub for a complex field system. In the late 2nd and 3rd centuries a number of small enclosures were created, possibly associated with specialised industrial activity.
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SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY4443 Ings Field, Rossington, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y Y HSY4444 Holmes Carr Great Wood, Rossington, Ancient Woodland Y Doncaster HSY4445 Grange Lane, Rossington, Doncaster Cemetery Y HSY4713 Central Drive, New Rossington, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y HSY4720 Clay Flat Lane, New Rossington, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y HSY4722 Gattison Lane, New Rossington, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y HSY4724 Grange Lane, New Rossington, Doncaster School Y
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Allocation Reference: 307 Area (Ha): 234.34 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SK 6366 9704 Site Name: Land South East of Rossington Settlement: Rossington
Allocation Recommendations
Archaeological significance of site Regional Historic landscape significance Uncertain Suitability of site for allocation Major archaeological constraint
Summary Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument 1 1 Listed Building 2 1 SMR record/event 20 records/1 event 19 records/2 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence Yes Yes Cartographic features of interest Yes No Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a
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Allocation Reference: 307 Area (Ha): 234.344 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SK 6366 9704 Site Name: Land South East of Rossington Settlement: Rossington
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR records 19 monuments and one findspot within the site. Most of these relate to Iron Age to Roman field systems and probable settlement enclosures, recorded from cropmarks, and are fairly evenly distributed throughout the site. The Scheduled Monument of a Roman fort extends just into the northern tip of the site. A Palaeolithic hand axe has also been recovered from within the site, the 19th-century Rossington Hall and site of a brick pit are also recorded. One event is recorded within the site, a geophysical survey at the southern end, which did not identify any features of archaeological significance. Nineteen further monuments and seven events are located within the buffer zone, with most again relating to Iron Age/Romano-British enclosures and field systems. Some of these features were confirmed by excavations at Parrot’s Corner which identified a settlement enclosure and field boundaries, as well as prehistoric flints and Beaker pottery. The line of a possible Roman Road runs along much of the eastern site boundary, on the course of what is now the Great North Road. The area of recorded remains relating to Doncaster’s Roman pottery industry also extends into the buffer. The Scheduled Monument of Rossington Roman Fort is located within the buffer zone to the immediate north of the site, with a very small section of the Scheduled area extending into the site itself. There are two listed buildings within the site, Rossington Hall and the associated stables, both of which are grade II listed and located at the southern end of the site. A further listed building exists within the buffer zone, a grade II listed milepost, which is located just outside of the north-eastern site boundary. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project recorded extensive Iron Age/ Romano-British field boundaries and enclosures within the site and extending throughout the buffer zone. Post-medieval ridge and furrow has also been recorded within the site and the buffer zone. The Historic Environment Characterisation records the majority of the northern end of the site as drained wetland, an area of large fields probably created through the drainage improvement programmes of Vermuyden in the early 17th century from a wet common environment. Legibility of the former landscape is invisible. The majority of the remainder of the site is private parkland of Rossington Hall Park. Although some of the land is used currently for agricultural purposes, overall the character of landscaped park is still. The very southern area of the site is recreation land of the Northern Racing College. A small area at the western end of the site is agglomerated fields which formerly made up Church Field, formerly strip enclosures from a probable medieval open field, preserved only as part of the external boundary and the name of the area. Further character zones within the buffer zone comprise a mix of private housing, plantations and agglomerated fields. The site currently comprises a number of irregularly shaped fields, interspersed with small areas of woodland and intercutting tracks. The southern area of the site contains the landscaped parkland of Rossington Hall, and a racetrack belonging to the Northern Racing college. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The site is predominantly fields in 1854. The railway to the west of the site, and the Great North Road to the east, were both extant. A drain runs north to south, down the western edge of the site. Gypsy Plantation and a gravel pit were located within the northern part of the site, with Church Field, Gravel Hill Plantation and Bone Field Plantation to the west. Slightly further to the south is an area of woodland called Nine Acre Plantation and a series of ponds named Brick Ponds. A large area of landscaped parkland to the southeast of the site is labelled Old Park, next to which is Old Park Plantation, in which Shooter’s Hill is located. A structure in the location of the present Rossington Hall is depicted on the map, although it is not labelled. The area further to the south of this is part of Rossington Common, with a small gravel pit. A number of intercutting tracks are present throughout the site. By 1893, Rosssington Hall is labelled and a small pump is located at the very southern end of the site. By 1948 a sheepwash was present by the pump at the southern end of the site. By 1967 the structure of Rossington Hall is labelled as a school and a number of drains have been created within the Old Park. By 1992 the school is labelled Rossington Hall School, and an RSPCA Centre had been established to the south if it.
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In 1854, the area surrounding the site was mainly fields, with Church Field, Townside Field and Rossington Common to the west, High Common, Finningley Park and Hurst Common to the east and the small settlement of Rossington to the northwest, with a Manor House and St Michael’s Church. Rossington Bridge is located at the very northern end of the site. By 1948 the settlement of New Rossington had been established to the northwest of the site, with The Warren Golf Course to the north. An area to the south of the site had become heavily wooded, named White Mires Wood. New Rossington had expended further by 1967 and White Mires Plantation had been renamed Bawtry Forest. A mound is also marked on the map in an area named Castle Hills; this area is present on maps since 1854, although the mound did not appear until 1967. Several drains are also present at the northern end of the site at this time. Survival: Relatively little ground disturbance is known to have occurred within the site, and as such the potential for the survival of buried archaeological remains is considered to be high. Extensive remains of Iron Age to Roman cropmarks are recorded within the site, and such remains have been confirmed to survive in archaeological investigations to the north and west. The two grade II listed buildings within the site, Rossington Hall and the associated stable block, are now used as commercial premises and are in a good state of repair. Further investigations: Given the evidence for extensive buried archaeological remains on this site, further consideration of the impact on these would be required to establish whether there was capacity for housing on this site. The Scheduled Monument of Rossington Bridge Roman Fort extends slightly into the northern end of the site; it is highly unlikely that development will be allowed in the Scheduled Area, and the impact of development on the setting of the monument will also need to be considered. The setting of the two listed buildings at Rossington Hall within the site will also need to be considered in relation to any proposed development. Significance: Remains associated with Iron Age to Roman dispersed settlement and agriculture could be of Local to Regional archaeological significance, depending on their nature, extent and condition, though the extensive nature of the cropmarks suggest that they have a high potential to be considered to be of Regional significance. The grade II listed buildings within the site are also considered to be of Regional significance. The Scheduled Roman fort that extends into the northern tip of the site is of National archaeological significance.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: Twenty-first century aerial photography shows the site as numerous irregularly shaped fields, most of which appear to be used for pasture. Rossington Hall and the racing track for the Northern Racing College are present at the southern end of the site. There is no available Lidar data for the site. Photograph references: Google Earth images 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012 RAF/541/35 4040 19-May-1948; RAF/541/170 4165 21-Sep-1948; ULM (K17AI159) 5-JUL-1975; SK6398/18 DNR 1066/13 29-Jun-1975; SK6497/7 DNR 873/8 03-Jul-1976; SK6496/3 DNR 1011/27 05-Aug-1977; SK6297/29 DNR 1082/32 23-Jul-1977; SK6496/12 DNR 1559/25 27-Jul-1979; SK6397/12 DNR 1560/11 27-Jul-1979; SK6497/26 NMR 12514/1 11-Jul-1994; ULM (ZKnEV177) 10-AUG-1995; SK6397/17 NMR 17584/16 05-Jul-2001.
Statutory Designations Reference Name Designation/ Site? Buffer? ID Grade 1004823 Rossington Roman Fort SM Y Y 1151517 Rossington Hall and attached quadrant wall on south east side II Y 1151518 The Stables, Rossington Hall II Y
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1151559 Milepost opposite junction with Littleworth Lane II Y
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 00140/01 Rossington Bridge A Roman Vexillation fort was discovered at Rossington during Y Y Roman Fort air reconnaissance in 1968. The fort measured 1025 ft by 860 ft with an area of 23 acres. 00966/01 Possible site of May have been confused with the fort 200m away (see PIN Y Roman Camp 140). There is an enclosure, field system (PIN 02142) and trackway (PIN 01789) near this location. This may have been what was recorded by the aerial survey. 00967/01 Palaeolithic A Lower Palaeolithic handaxe found near Rossington Y Handaxe, Rossington 00971/01 Beehive Quern and Beehive quern found at SK 6288 9839 amongst the stones in a Y associated field drain (deposited in modern times). Roman-British pot- Romano-British sherds were found at SK 6279 9848 just below ground floor pottery, Rossington service and seemed to come from one vessel. They are of 2nd century. 00972/01 Second to third Sherd of 2nd -3rd century Roman British coarse ware found in Y Century AD 1959. pottery, Rossington 01789/01 Iron Age or Extensive group of cropmarks lying south and southeast of Y Y Romano-British Rossington fortress. Field boundaries and a trackway run from Trackway and Field church fields (south of Rossington) to Brooks Wood and Boundaries, eastwards as far as Cadman's Plantation. Alignment of the Rossington boundaries is NNE-SSW and the Roman road (Great North Road) cuts this alignment. Smaller enclosures (Settlement site?) at SK633982 and 635988 3114 01790/01 Cropmarks showing Crop marks - extensive crop marks centred at this grid Y field boundaries, reference. Field boundaries and trackways show from North of Rossington Common Lane, to south of New England Cottages and eastwards almost as far as the Great North Road, South of old park. Part of the same system as PIN 1789 to the north. Smaller enclosures (?possible settlements) at SK 626 957, 632 959, 636 963 01794/01 Iron Age to Traces of field boundaries, with a possible settlement site Y Romano-British (sub-rectangular enclosure) at SK (02) 643 976. Lying between Field Boundaries Mount Pleasant Hotel and Hammond's Elders, continues and Possible eastwards as far as Finningley runways. Some Roman material Settlement, found. Iron Age or Romano-British cropmark complex shown Austerfield on aerial photographs 01877/01 Linear cropmark Possible Roman road, or may be a pipeline. Y feature, Rossington 02142/01 Subrectangular / Sub rectangular enclosure possibly Roman. Y Square enclosure and associated Field System 02467/01 Iron Age to Possible Iron Age or Romano-British field system and trackway Y Romano-British shown on aerial photographs. The excavation of the area in period Field System question turned up evidence for field-systems which covered a and Trackway, very wide area, but at a low density of occupation and without Rossington a specific focus of activity. 02469/01 Cropmarks Cropmarks show the presence of human activity in fields Y associated with between Rossington Bridge Roman kilns and Rossington
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Romano-British Roman Fort. Settlement at Rossington Bridge 02470/01 Iron Age or Iron Age or Romano-British unclassified cropmarks shown on Y Romano-British aerial photographs Unclassified Cropmark, Rossington 02471/01 Undated Cropmarks appear to represent field boundaries and a possible Y Cropmarks, enclosure Rossington 02472/01 Iron Age or Iron Age or Romano-British cropmark shown on aerial Y Romano-British photographs. Unclassified Cropmarks, Rossington 02475/01 Iron Age or Iron Age or Romano-British field system and rectilinear Y Romano-British enclosure shown on aerial photographs. Field System, Rossington 02478/01 Romano-British Iron Age or Romano-British cropmark complex shown on aerial Y Cropmark Complex, photographs Austerfield 02486/01 Iron Age or Iron Age or Romano-British rectangular enclosure and field Y Romano-British system shown on aerial photographs. Rectangular Enclosure and Field system, Rossington 02487/01 Iron Age to Iron Age or Romano-British field system shown on aerial Y Romano-British photographs. Field System, Rossington 02675/01 Iron Age or Iron Age or Romano-British trackway. Y Romano-British Trackway, Rossington 02676/01 Drove road, Evaluation in 1992 recorded a possible droveway, with some Y Rossington evidence for the presence of ruts between the two ditches, indicative of animal and/or vehicular movement. No finds were recovered from any excavated contexts. 02677/01 Iron Age or Iron Age or Romano-British field boundaries. Y Romano-British Field Boundaries, Rossington 02678/01 Iron Age or Iron Age or Romano-British field system. Y Romano-British Field System, Rossington 02680/01 Iron Age or Iron Age or Romano-British cropmarks indicating the presence Y Romano-British of field systems. Field System, Rossington 02896/01 Iron Age or Iron Age or Romano-British field system (brick work plan?) and Y Romano-British corner of Rossington Fort shown on aerial photographs. Field System, Rossington
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02897/01 Iron Age or Part of extensive rectilinear field system east and southeast of Y Romano-British Rossington Roman fort. Enclosures and Droveway, Rossington 02917/01 Square Enclosure Square enclosure and possible trackway visible as cropmark Y of Unknown Date, Rossington 03114/01 ?Iron Age or Cropmarks indicating a rectangular enclosure and sub-divisions Y Romano-British within 'brickwork fields' Enclosure, Rossington 03114/02 Field System Field System Y 04157/01 Late 19th Century A late 19th century Hall, Rossington Y Hall 04157/04 DUPILCATE A mid-nineteenth century brick pit Y 04511/01 ?Plough Marks of Site of cultivation marks identified from geophysical survey. Y Unknown Date at the Northern Racing School, Rossington 04915 Roman Road; Suggested Roman road following the original line of military Y Bawtry to Adwick advance from Lincoln towards York, entering South Yorkshire Le Street via in the south-east at Bawtry, travelling north-west through Doncaster Doncaster and Adwick Le Street and then on towards Casteford. 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. 05595 Iron Age and A site immediately adjacent to Rossington Bridge Roman fort, Y Romano-British with evaluation confirming the survival of Iron Age and Roman settlement and features, including kilns associated with the local pottery field system, production area. An area excavation in 2007 recorded a Parrot's Corner, probable settlement enclosure, trackway and field boundary Rossington ditches. 05596 Unstratified Beaker Fragmentary remains of at least three Beaker vessels were Y pottery, Parrot's found within a probable tree root bole during excavations at Corner, Rossington Parrot's Corner, dating to approximately 2200-2000 BC. 05597 Unstratified flints, Six residual flints, including a Neolithic scraper and a microlith, Y Parrot's Corner, found during excavations in 2007. Rossington ESY71 Excavation of Six trenches were excavated in an area containing possible Y cropmark features trackways and field boundaries identified from aerial at Rossington photography. The features were found to survive only partially, and didn't in all cases match well with the photos. It was concluded that agricultural activity since the 1970s may have removed some of these features. ESY291 Archaeological A walk-over survey of the site and woodland survey revealed Y Evaluation at Hurst linear ditches running through the plantation. These were Plantation interpreted as artificial and must have been created before the replanting of the site in the 1980s. A number of features probably relate to quarrying activity and an oval depression was located approx 5m across at its widest point, which may be a small quarry for either sand or gravel extraction. Test-pits
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show that the natural sands and gravels are between 20cm and 60cm below the ground surface in most areas and it is likely that these thin soils were heavily disturbed during replanting. ESY346 Geophysical Survey Geophysical survey identified a number of anomalies Y and excavations, representing linear ditch features as well as possible pit type Stripe Road, features. The linear anomalies do not seem to correspond well Rossington with known cropmarks and the pit feature may be due to variation in the subsoil, which may be due to errors in plotting cropmarks from aerial photographs. Archaeological evaluation revealed features forming part of a [Romano-British] field system. ESY348 Geophysical Survey A geophysical survey was carried out in October 1995 on a site Y at the Northern that had archaeological implications in the form of cropmarks. Racing School The survey, however, turned up nothing of archaeological interest. ESY350 Evaluations of Land Geophysical survey results identified a number of ditches in Y at Parrots Corner the south-west of the site. The poor survey conditions and low magnetic contrast could mean that more features are present. In 2003 an archaeological evaluation was undertaken confirming the presence of Roman archaeology outside the known Roman Fort perimeter as well as evidence for a prehistoric component to the site. ESY351 Archaeological In May 1992 a programme of evaluation was undertaken on Y Evaluation of cropmarks off Stripe Road. A number of linear features were Cropmarks off recorded, probably representing frield boundaries. No datable Stripe Road finds were recovered. ESY1350 Excavation at Excavation adjacent to the Roman fort at Rossington Bridge. Y Parrot's Corner, Evidence for an Iron Age field system and subsequent Roman Rossington field system were identified. Kilns believed to be associated with pottery production were recorded. No convincing evidence for an extra-mural settlement, or direct impact of the fort on the surrounding landscape were noted. It seems likely that the fort was in use for only a short period. 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.
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY4339 Bawtry Forest, Bawtry, Doncaster Plantation Y Y HSY4418 Northern Racing College, Bawtry, Doncaster Racecourse Y Y HSY4432 Rossington Hall Park, Rossington, Doncaster Private Parkland Y Y HSY4439 Stripe Road, Rossington, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y Y HSY4442 Church Field, Rossington, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y Y HSY4641 Bessacarr Lane, Doncaster Drained Wetland Y Y HSY4447 Martin Common, Bawtry, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y HSY4477 High Common Lane, Austerfield, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y HSY4480 High Common Lane (south), Austerfield, Surveyed Enclosure Y Doncaster (Parliamentary/ Private)
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HSY4595 Hurst Plantation, Auckley, Doncaster Plantation Y HSY4596 Hurst Plantation pit, Auckley, Doncaster Other Mineral Extraction & Y Processing HSY4606 Hag and Cadman's Plantation, Auckley, Plantation Y Doncaster HSY4608 Hurst Lane, Auckley, Doncaster Surveyed Enclosure Y (Parliamentary/ Private) HSY4720 Clay Flat Lane, New Rossington, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y HSY4747 Church Field estate, Rossington, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y HSY4749 Station Road, Rossington, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y HSY5973 Front Row and Back Row, Rossington, Terraced Housing Y Doncaster HSY5974 Littleworth, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y HSY5977 Great North Road, Bawtry Villas/ Detached Housing Y
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Allocation Reference: 308 Area (Ha): 1.22 Allocation Type: Employment NGR (centre): SE 6038 0680 Site Name: Land E. & W. of Clay Lane West, Long Sandall Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area
Allocation Recommendations
Archaeological significance of site Regional Historic landscape significance Uncertain Suitability of site for allocation Major archaeological constraint
Summary Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - 2 SMR record/event 1 records 6 records Cropmark/Lidar evidence Yes Yes Cartographic features of interest Yes Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a
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Allocation Reference: 308 Area (Ha): 1.215 Allocation Type: Employment NGR (centre): SE 60379 06803 Site Name: Land E. & W. of Clay Lane West, Long Sandall Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR records one monument within the site, continuing eastwards into the buffer: the site of a possible Roman fort at Long Sandall, recorded as cropmarks to the east of the site in an area since developed. Archaeological remains associated with the fort are likely to be located within the western parcel, but may also extend into the eastern parcel of the site. Two findspots and four monuments are recorded within the buffer zone. The findspots are possible Mesolithic flint implements, which may have been found within the site as the findspot is recorded in the carriageway of Clay Lane, and a Neolithic stone axe found to the east of the site. The monuments are the remains of Long Sandall shrunken medieval settlement to the north of the site, between Clay Lane and the River Don; a post-medieval bridge to the southwest, and the former location of a heavy anti-aircraft gun, though its exact placement is unknown. Long Sandall shrunken medieval village is thought to be one of the best undisturbed examples of medieval riverside settlement on the south of the Don. There are no Scheduled Monuments within the site or the buffer. Two grade II listed buildings are recorded in the buffer: two pairs of semi-detached houses along Clay Lane to the south of the site. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project did not record any features within the site. Cropmarks relating to the Roman fort and Iron Age-Roman boundary ditches were recorded in the buffer, the former immediately to the east of the site. The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the majority of the site as villas/detached housing within the historic core of Long Sandall village, with only sparse survival of historic buildings. The legibility of the former landscape is partial due to the surviving buildings. Character zones within the buffer are defined as Agglomerated Fields, Drained Wetland, Other Industry, Glassworks, Canal or River Wharf and Valley Floor Meadows. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: Several buildings stood within the western parcel at the time of the 1785 Hexby, Balby and Long Sandall enclosure map. One of these was subsequently known as ‘White House’, while the others appear to have been agricultural buildings associated with Poplar Farm, to the northeast. Parts of the farmyard and several grassed plots were also shown within this parcel in 1785, while the eastern parcel contained several small plots at that date. Little change had occurred within the site by the time of the 1819 Alexander map of Long Sandall. A number of outbuildings had been demolished in the western parcel by the time of the 1854 OS map, while a large, detached building stood along the Clay Lane frontage in the eastern parcel, which was subdivided into several cultivated plots in 1854. The detached building was not shown on the 1892 OS map. Little further substantive change was shown within the site on OS maps produced up to 1930. A small, detached building that was shown within the eastern parcel on the 1948 OS map was not marked on the 1962 map. A greenhouse was shown to the rear of White House at that date. ‘White House Cottage’ was labelled within the western parcel in 1969, when a number of the 19th-century plot divisions had been removed from the eastern parcel. A small number of additional outbuildings were shown to the west of White House on the 1983 OS map. Various features were marked within the buffer zone on the 1785 map, including fields, Poplar Farm, Manor House (not the same building as the one that presently holds that name), Town’s House, Clay Lane, Thorne Lane, the River Don, a lock on the river and several detached buildings. Little change was shown on the 1819 map, while a substantial footpath through the fields, a pinfold, the Wheat Sheaf public house, the Don Navigation, a towing path and the Manchester, Sheffield and Liverpool Railway line were shown on the 1854 OS map. Fore Hill was marked on the 1892 map, with The Wash shown in 1906. The South Yorkshire Joint Railway had been constructed within the buffer by 1930. A series of mooring posts were shown along the canal bank at that date. Lock Cottage was labelled in 1961. A depot was shown in 1981, with a large works shown in the southeast part of the buffer on the 1982 OS map. Further works, tanks and a spoil heap were shown on the 1983 map.
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Survival: The site was fields by 1785 and the majority of the land has remained undeveloped since that date. Given the lack of deep ground disturbance, the presence of the probable Roman fort to the southeast of the site and the strong likelihood that remains associated with the fort may be present in the eastern parcel, the potential for buried archaeological remains in these areas is considered to be high. The location of the fort close to the River Don suggests it may have had an associated wharf or landing area. There may also be the potential for buried archaeological remains associated with the shrunken medieval village within the site. Archaeological remains relating to demolished post-medieval and 19th-century agricultural buildings within the site are likely to be low- level utilitarian features such as footings, foundations and the bases of walls. Further investigations: The potential for remains associated with the fort and the shrunken medieval village indicate that there are significant archaeological concerns associated with this site. Further consideration of its capacity for development should be made. Significance: Remains associated with the Roman fort and associated activity, and to the shrunken medieval village, could be of Local to Regional archaeological significance, depending on their extent, nature and condition. Archaeological remains relating to the post-medieval buildings periods are considered to be of Local significance.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: A 2002 aerial photograph shows the site as rough grassland, with the derelict remains of White House, areas of demolition rubble and an informal vehicular access track to the canal bank visible in the western parcel. No other standing buildings survived within the site by 2002, when the land was occupied by rough grass, scrub, trees and areas of vegetation overgrowth. A temporary building stood in the eastern parcel in 2003, but had been removed by 2008. Much of the scrub, trees and vegetation overgrowth had been cleared by that date. No change was evident on an aerial photograph taken in 2015. Within the eastern parcel, the Lidar data does not show any clear archaeological features, though a narrow, faint hollow in the eastern parcel appears to continue the line of the inner ditch of the fort as recorded from cropmark evidence. More detailed Lidar or topographic data would help to confirm this. The only feature not shown on the current map within the western parcel is a linear hollow aligned northwest to southeast running through the centre of the site, from Clay Lane to close to the river. This may be a natural feature, but could be the remains of a hollow way. It is not shown on any of the historic maps. Photograph references: Google Earth: 2002, 2003, 2008 and 2009. Bing Maps: 2015. Lidar data file SE6006 DTM 1m.
Statutory Designations Reference Name Designation/ Site? Buffer? ID Grade 1151448 3 and 4, Clay Lane II Y 1314877 1 and 2, Clay Lane II Y
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SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 04676 Post-medieval A post-medieval bridge at Long Sandall. The exact date of Y period bridge, Long construction is not known - it is believed to have been in Sandall existence from at least 1823. 04706 'H19' Heavy Anti- A heavy anti-aircraft gun battery at Long Sandall. The exact Y Aircraft Battery, location of the battery is unknown. Long Sandall 04726 ?Roman Fort, Long Aerial photographs show a cropmark that may indicate the Y Y Sandall, Doncaster presence of a Roman fort adjacent to the River Don at Kirk Sandall, Doncaster 01063/01 Neolithic polished Neolithic polished stone axe from ploughed field, 1965. Now in Y stone axe, possession of the finder. Edenthorpe 01868/01 Lithic Implement Flint finds of possible Mesolithic date from Long Sandall. Y Finds of Possible Mesolithic Date, Long Sandall 02932/01 Long Sandall Long Sandall Shrunken Medieval Settlement. One of the best Y Shrunken Medieval examples of riverside settlement south of the Don as not Settlement disturbed by modern development
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY107 Arksey Common Agglomerated fields Y HSY4425 Bentley Ings, Doncaster Drained Wetland Y HSY4758 Doncaster Glass Works (site of), Kirk Sandall, Other Industry Y Doncaster HSY4759 Kirk Sandall Industrial Estate (South of Railway Other Industry Y Line), Doncaster HSY5352 Clay Lane, Long Sandall, Doncaster Glassworks Y Y HSY5390 Manor House, Long Sandall, Doncaster Other Industry Y HSY5393 Long Sandall, Doncaster Villas/ Detached Housing Y Y HSY5394 Wheatley Cut, Long Sandall, Doncaster Canal or River Wharf Y HSY5399 Long Sandall Ings, Doncaster Valley Floor Meadows Y
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Allocation Reference: 309 Area (Ha): 3.37 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 6394 0771 Site Name: Land off Westminster Drive, Dunsville Settlement: Hatfield Stainforth
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 - 2 SMR record/event - 1 record/2 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence Yes Yes Cartographic features of interest No Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a
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Allocation Reference: 309 Area (Ha): 3.37 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 6394 0771 Site Name: Land off Westminster Drive, Dunsville Settlement: Hatfield Stainforth
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 linear earthwork of unknown function parallel with Thorne Road within Wyndthorpe Park. The events comprise geophysical surveys and a trial trench evaluation at two locations at Sandall Grange. The geophysical surveys recorded probable ridge and furrow cultivation remains and a group of features that proved on excavation to be of non-archaeological origin. No Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings are recorded within the site. Two grade II listed buildings are located within the buffer, Wyndthorpe Hall, and a milepost west of the hall entrance. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project recorded levelled ridge and furrow remains within the site, on an east-west orientation. Further ridge and furrow was recorded to the north within the buffer zone, as well as fragmentary cropmarks of a probable ditched trackway and field boundaries likely to be of Iron Age to Roman date. The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and part of the buffer as the putative extent of Hatfield medieval deer park, which retains the character of enclosure of the land following disparkment. Further character zones within the buffer include: private parkland associated with Wyndthorpe Hall; drained wetland enclosed from West Moor and Barnby Dun Common in the late 18th and early 19th centuries with some visibility of the contemporary drainage layout; and 20th-century residential developments with fragmentary visibility of the 18th-century enclosure landscape. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The 1853 OS map shows the site as part of two rectangular fields to the west of Park Lane Farm, with probable hedged boundaries, with the current southern boundary of the site shown at that date. The east-west aligned boundary running through the site towards the north end was shown as a drain on the 1892 map. This pattern remained unchanged in 1980. A wind-pump was shown along the southern boundary, possibly just outside the western edge of the site, in 1930 and on later maps. By 1992, the boundary dividing the site into two fields had been removed, and it formed part of a larger field. Within the buffer, the 1853 map showed farm buildings to the east and south of the site and Park Lane Cottages to the southeast. Park Lane Hall and park were shown to the south of Park Lane. Park Lane Hall had been renamed Wyndthorpe Hall between 1906 and 1930. This was labelled as a residential nursery in 1962. By 1948, houses were under construction in rows to either side of High Street to the east of the site. By 1992, housing development to the rear of the High Street had expanded to the eastern edge of the field within which the site is located, with further development within the field, up to the east edge of the site, undertaken by 2002. Wyndthorpe Hall had become a residential home for the elderly by 1992. Survival: The field has been drained and under arable cultivation since at least the mid-19th century, which may have impacted on buried archaeological remains through truncation and desiccation. Below the level affected by ploughing, the potential for the survival of unrecorded archaeological remains is considered to be moderate; however, evaluation and geophysical survey on the sites of the ponds to the west of the site did not record any significant archaeological features or deposits. 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 aerial coverage shows the site as a field under arable cultivation, with a housing estate to its immediate east, and ploughed land to the north and south. The northern boundary was established by that date, post-dating the 1992 map coverage. A pond was being excavated in the field to the west at that date, completed by 2008. The former boundary running close to the north edge of the site was visible as a cropmark, along with several parallel, widely spaced northwest-southeast aligned cropmarks of uncertain origin. These appear too widely spaced to represent ridge and furrow, and could be associated with drainage. The fields to the north and west had been planted with trees by 2008, in a regular arrangement suggestive of deliberate plantations rather than regenerating scrub. This area was shown as quite extensively wooded by 2015. The site has remained in arable cultivation. Lidar coverage shows faint parallel lines aligned north-south within the field. This may be associated with ridge and furrow, though is aligned at roughly 90 degrees to that recorded as cropmarks on 1940s aerial photographs. The lines are more closely spaced than the cropmarks visible on 21st-century aerial photographs and are likely to relate to modern ploughing. Photograph references: 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009 & 2015. Lidar data files SE6307, SE6407, SE6308, SE6408.
Statutory Designations Reference Name Designation/ Site? Buffer? ID Grade 1151580 Wyndthorpe Hall II Y 1314827 Milepost approximately 40 metres to west of entrance to II Y Wyndthorpe hall
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 01826/01 Unclassified Linear Linear earthwork - date and function unknown. Lies within Y Earthwork, wood running parallel to Thorne Road. (Dunsville) Dunsville ESY480 Geophysical Survey In October 2003 a geophysical survey was undertaken on land Y of land at Sandall at Sandall Grange. No anomalies of likely archaeological origin Grange were identified. A series of parallel positive linear anomalies aligned north to south are probably caused by ridge and furrow ploughing. ESY1371 Evaluations at Geophysical survey was undertaken ahead of construction of Y Sandall Grange an irrigation lagoon near Dunsville, Doncaster. A small cluster Lagoons, Dunsville, of features in the northeastern portion of the survey area Doncaster were of possible archaeological origin. These were investigated by trial trenching, and they proved non- archaeological in origin. It appears the area may have been waterlogged since the last glaciation.
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SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY4437 Hatfield Deer Park (putative location), Hatfield, Surveyed Enclosure Y Y Doncaster (Parliamentary/ Private) HSY4490 Barnby Dun Common, Barnby Dun, Doncaster Surveyed Enclosure Y (Parliamentary/ Private) HSY4509 West Moor, Armthorpe, Doncaster Drained Wetland Y HSY4731 'Park Lane' / High Street, Dunscroft. Private Housing Estate Y HSY4733 'Saints' Estate, Hatfield, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y HSY4779 Wyndthorpe / Park Lane Hall, Doncaster Private Parkland Y
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Allocation Reference: 310 Area (Ha): 1.312 Allocation Type: Housing/Employment NGR (centre): SE 5669 0493 Site Name: Rear of Bentley Road, Doncaster 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 Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest No No Estimated sub-surface disturbance Partial n/a
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Allocation Reference: 310 Area (Ha): 1.312 Allocation Type: Housing/Employment NGR (centre): SE 5669 0493 Site Name: Rear of Bentley Road, Doncaster Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area
Site assessment Known assets/character: There are no SMR entries for the site itself. Within the buffer zone, six SMR records exist, all of which relate to cropmark evidence of Iron Age to Romano-British field systems to the east of the site. There are no scheduled monuments or listed buildings recorded 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, to the east of the site, a concentrated area of Iron Age/Romano- British field systems and enclosures is recorded, with fragmentary remains also within the southern area of the buffer zone. Post-medieval ridge and furrow is also recorded to the east of the site. The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as modern industrial, built as an infill between modern housing and the railway line. Prior to this, the area was part of surveyed enclosures relating to the 1771 Parliamentary Award. There is no legibility of the former enclosed land. The eastern end of the buffer comprises a mixture of enclosed land types, and the western end of the buffer contains a mixture of modern housing and schools. The site currently comprises a parcel of scrubland with intermittent tree cover. A network of intercutting paths is present across the site. A railway line runs along the eastern site boundary, with the A19 just outside the western site boundary. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: On the 1854 OS map the site was depicted as part of a single field. A railway line was extant along the eastern boundary, as was Bentley Road to the west (the modern A19). A drain was marked running approximately east- west through the site, named Lestal Bridge Dyke. On the 1894 map, the field in which the site is located was named Bentley Rise. By 1930 two small buildings had been built on the site, one at the northern end and one at the western end. By 1939 a handful of additional small buildings had been added to the site, clustered around the first two buildings. At this time all of the buildings on the site were located to the north of the drain, which by 1930 was named Fowler Bridge Drain. By 1956 some of the smaller buildings had been cleared to make way for a single larger building, and by 1960 several smaller buildings had also been constructed to the south of Fowler Bridge Drain. The collection of buildings was labelled Works. There is no change evident on the 1984 map. The buffer zone is shown as fields on the 1854 OS map, with the railway line running northwest to southeast to the east of the site and Bentley Road, the modern A19, to the west of the site. The fields to the west of the Bentley Road were named West Field. By 1894 terraced housing development had occurred along Bentley Road, immediately to the west of the site, with further housing built by 1906 along Bentley Road, to the southwest of the site. By 1930 many new roads and associated housing had been built in the north-western end of the buffer zone. The 1938 map marks a sewage pumping station to the south of the site, and further houses were under construction to the west of the site by 1959, with a depot shown to the immediate north of the site. The buffer zone has remained largely unchanged since, with the southern and western half of the buffer zone heavily developed with modern housing, industrial buildings to the immediate north of the site, and fields to the west. Survival: The succession of industrial buildings on the site from around 1930 onwards is likely to have disturbed any below- ground heritage assets within the footprints of the structures. There are areas of the site which have remained undeveloped, and the potential for below ground heritage assets within these areas is considered to be moderate. Further investigations: Further investigations at the site may be required if the site is brought forward for development.
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Significance: Unknown.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: Twenty-first century photographs demonstrate that the site had been cleared of all buildings by 2002. No development has occurred on the site since, with the land currently scrub wasteland with several trees. Intercutting footpaths are present across the site. No heritage assets can be identified within the Lidar data, with the succession of 20th-century structures on the site obscuring any earlier features. Photograph references: Google Earth images 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2015. Lidar data tiles SE5604 & SE5605 DTM 1m. RAF/CPE/UK/1879 1103 06-Dec-1946, ULM (BUL93) 16-JUL-1975, SE5704/4 DNR 1553/14 24-Jul-1979
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 02336/01 Cropmark Crop mark - enclosure, lane and field boundaries. (Iron- Y Enclosure, Bentley Age/Romano-British) Rise 02336/02 Cropmark showing Lane Y trackway, Bentley Rise 02336/03 Cropmark showing Field Boundary Y field boundaries, Bentley Rise 02338/01 Cropmark showing Crop mark - enclosure, lane and fields (Iron-Age/ Romano- Y enclosure, Bentley British). Rise 02338/02 Cropmark showing Lane Y a trackway, Bentley Rise 02338/03 Cropmarks showing Field System Y a field system, Bentley Rise
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY5171 Industrial area, Bentley Rise, Doncaster Other Industry Y Y HSY4425 Bentley Ings, Doncaster Drained Wetland Y HSY4948 Bentley Rise (Holly Avenue to Washington Terraced Housing Y Grove) HSY4950 Bentley Road, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y HSY4953 Lauder Road, Bentley Rise, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y HSY4954 Playing Fields near Queens Drive, Bentley, Playing Fields/ Recreation ground Y
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Doncaster HSY5061 Bentley High Street First and Middle School, School Y Doncaster HSY5062 Haver Croft, Bentley, Doncaster Piecemeal Enclosure Y HSY5167 Haslemere Court, Bentley, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y HSY5168 Old School Building, Kirkby Lane, Doncaster School Y
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Allocation Reference: 311 Area (Ha): 3.85 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 6961 1426 Site Name: Land Rear of Bryson Close, 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 Ancient 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: 311 Area (Ha): 3.85 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 6961 1426 Site Name: Land Rear of Bryson Close, Thorne Settlement: Thorne Moorends
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR does not record any monuments, events or findspots within the site or 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 post- medieval ridge and furrow within the buffer zone, to the east of the site. The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as industrial to modern drained wetland of North Common depicted as newly laid out allotments on the 1825 enclosure plan for this area. The present boundaries largely defined by 19th-century drainage layout. There is no legibility of the former common. Within the buffer zone, additional landscape character types include part of the Thorne Cables enclosed and drained land, also enclosed as part of the parliamentary enclosure award, with many of the narrow fields having been agglomerated in the late 20th century in association with the intensification of arable production. The remainder of the landscape character within the buffer comprises 20th century housing to the west and industrial development to the south, with no legibility of very fragmentary remains of previous character types. Historic landfill data records the Brickworks, King Edward Road, Thorne, within the buffer zone to the west of the site. The site has been in agricultural use since at least 1825 and remains a field in arable use to the present day. The field boundaries to the north and west are probably the 1825 enclosure boundaries and the narrow lane to the east is present on the 1854 OS map, whilst the field boundary to the south is modern. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The site covers parts of what were originally three enclosed fields, which were enclosed in 1825. The field in the northern end of the site was aligned roughly east-west, and the two fields in the southern end aligned north- south. By 1962, an electricity pylon was present in the north-eastern corner of the site, and the two southern north-south aligned fields had been amalgamated into a single field. By 1971 the eastern third of the east-west field boundary had been removed, with the western two-thirds marked as ‘drain’, which now denotes the northern boundary of the site. By 2008, the current site southern boundary had been established, with the creation of industrial buildings to the south of the site. Within the buffer zone, a brick works had been established to the west by 1892 and had been extended by 1932. In 1902, a building, ‘Moorville’, was just to the northwest of the site, which had been extended by 1970. By 1948, a number of houses had been constructed to the west of the site, which had been substantially added to by 1971. By 1956, a factory building had been built immediately to the southwest of the site, which was extended by 1962. Another factory building was constructed immediately to the south of the site by 1975, along with a track which is now Coulman Road, and another building labelled ‘works’; these are beginnings of an industrial estate that had expanded significantly to the east by 1987. By 2008, two industrial-type buildings had been constructed immediately to the south of the site, together with the associated boundary, which forms the southern boundary of the site. The land associated with the building has since turned to scrub wasteland from arable land. Survival: The site has been drained and cultivated since at least the mid-19th century, which may have impacted on the preservation of below-ground remains through truncation and desiccation. The potential for the survival of buried archaeology below the zone impacted by ploughing is considered to be moderate. Further investigations: Further archaeological investigation is likely to be required if this site is brought forward for development.
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Significance: Unknown.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: Twenty-first-century aerial photographs show the site as arable land. There is no Lidar coverage for the site. Photograph references: Google Earth coverage, 2002, 2008 & 2009. RAF/CPE/UK/1880 1075 06-Dec-1946.
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY4416 North Common, Thorne, Doncaster Industrial to Modern Drained Y Y Wetland HSY4395 Thorne Cables (Agglomerated section), Industrial to Modern Drained Y Thorne, Doncaster Wetland HSY4669 Coulman Road Industrial Estate, Thorne Modern Other Industry Y Common, Doncaster HSY5647 Coulman Street. Thorne, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y
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Allocation Reference: 313 Area (Ha): 17.15 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 4965 1621 Site Name: Land northeast of Micklethwaite Farm Settlement: Thorne Moorends
Allocation Recommendations
Archaeological significance of site Regional Historic landscape significance Negligible Suitability of site for allocation Major 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 Low n/a
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Allocation Reference: 313 Area (Ha): 17.15 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 4965 1621 Site Name: Land northeast of Micklethwaite Farm Settlement: Thorne Moorends
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR does not record any monuments or events within the site or buffer zone. There is one grade II listed building within the site. This is Micklethwaite Farmhouse, built in the late 18th century with later alterations and additions. There are no further listed buildings or Scheduled Monuments in the buffer. The Magnesian Limestone Aerial Photographic Mapping Project records levelled and earthwork narrow ridge and furrow within the buffer zone, in fields to the north and west of the site. The Historic Environment Characterisation records the landscape character within the Site as Drained Wetland where loss of field boundaries in the late 20th century has resulted in only fragmentary visibility of the 19th- century fields enclosed from Thorne Moor. Within the buffer, landscape character types include Thorne Colliery, sunk in 1909 and operating until 1956, after which it was maintained and altered in anticipation of potential future working. The mine is now formally abandoned. The northern and western sides of the buffer are characterised as the drained wetlands enclosed in 1825, with some enclosure possibly in the early 17th century. The pattern of drainage and subdivision changed significantly between 1851 and 1891 in association with the creation of a new warping system, with only fragmentary visibility of the earlier enclosure pattern. The remainder of the buffer comprises 20th-century residential housing and playing fields associated with the planned mining settlement of Thorne Moorends. The site has been in agricultural use from at least the 1850s, with a late 18th-century farm complex in the southwest corner indicating earlier agricultural activity. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The 1853 OS map showed the site divided into many narrow rectangular strip fields running in a roughly west to east alignment. The area was part of an extensive area of similar strip fields, some possibly enclosed in association with early 17th-century drainage works, with the process completed in the 1825 Enclosure Award. Micklethwaite Farm was shown in the southwest corner of the site, one of the few buildings at Moor Ends at that date. The farm was shown in more detail in 1892, with the farmhouse to the south of the drive and a square yard to the north surrounded by a U-shaped arrangement of barns typical of a model farm. A structure protruding from the east side of the eastern barn had the appearance of a horse gin. The NER Hull and Doncaster railway line had been constructed along the northwest boundary of the site by 1892 and the fields had been aggregated into three enclosures, with boundaries formed by drainage ditches. A diagonal linear feature ran through part of the northern field, probably a drainage ditch, shown crossing the entire field in 1906. No significant changes to the layout of the fields were shown throughout the rest of the 20th-century mapping. Within the farm, there were alterations to the barn arrangement between 1906 and 1932, and by 1962 the yard was covered by large sheds with a range of new barns or outbuildings built to the east of the farmhouse. Within the buffer, the 1853 OS map showed similar strip fields to the north, south and east of the site, with small square to rectangular enclosures to the west of Moorends Road. By 1892, some fields to the north and south of the site retained the narrow strip-like appearance, with others fields to the north and east having been aggregated into larger enclosures. Between 1906 and 1948, Thorne Colliery was established in the eastern part of the buffer, with a railway branch connecting the colliery to the main line to the north. A brick works was associated with the colliery, and the planned settlement of Moorends had been constructed to the south of the site, with streets laid out in geometric patterns. This pattern remained roughly unchanged by 1987. Survival: The site has been drained and cultivated since at least the 1820s, which may have impacted on the preservation of sub-surface deposits through truncation and desiccation. The potential for unrecorded buried archaeological remains to survive below the plough zone is considered to be moderate.
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Further investigations: Given the presence of Micklethwaite Farmhouse and associated buildings within this site it has been assigned major concerns for allocation. Further consideration of the setting of the farmhouse and of the physical impact on any buried archaeological remains within the site would be required to establish its capacity for housing. Significance: The grade II listed Micklethwaite Farmhouse within the site can be considered to be of Regional archaeological significance. The significance of any sub-surface archaeology within the site is currently unknown. Note: Site 313 covers most of the same area as site 245, which excludes the listed building.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: Aerial photography from 2002 and 2009 shows that one of the field boundaries in the southern part of the site had been removed after 1987. The farm has a mixture of pantile- and corrugated metal-roofed barns, with the former yard completely infilled, though some of the old barn structures may be incorporated in the modern layout. The remainder of the site is shown as two fields under cultivation. The drainage ditch shown on historic mapping is no longer extant, but the 2008 and 2009 aerial mapping shows a linear soil and crop mark crossing the field on the route of the drain, suggesting it has been infilled. The soil mark continues across the field to the south and up to Micklethwaite Farm. There is no Lidar coverage for the site. Photograph references: Google Earth coverage, 2002, 2007, 2008 & 2009.
Statutory Designations Reference Name Designation/ Site? Buffer? ID Grade 1193126 Micklethwaite Farmhouse II Y
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY4395 Thorne Cables (Agglomerated section), Drained Wetland Y Y Thorne, Doncaster HSY4396 Thorne Colliery, Thorne, Doncaster Deep Shaft Coal Mine Y HSY4417 Dikes Marsh and Moorends warped lands, Drained Wetland Y Thorne, Doncaster HSY4656 Moorends Village, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y HSY4658 Moss Terrace, Thorne Moorends, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y HSY4666 Bloomhill Court, Moorends, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y
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Allocation Reference: 315 Area (Ha): 1.178 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SK 6695 9982 Site Name: Land West of Station Road, Blaxton Settlement: Finningley
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 records/1 event Cropmark/Lidar evidence Yes Yes Cartographic features of interest No No Estimated sub-surface disturbance Extensive n/a
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Allocation Reference: 315 Area (Ha): 1.178 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SK 6695 9982 Site Name: Land West of Station Road, Blaxton Settlement: Finningley
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR does not record any monuments or events within the site. Two monuments and one event are recorded within the buffer zone. To the south of the site is the assumed location of Finningley light anti aircraft gun emplacement, although the exact location is unknown. The western area of the buffer lies on the very edge of the Doncaster Roman pottery production area. The event relates to evaluation trenching at Finningley Airport, which indicated sparse evidence for activity on the site during the medieval and post-medieval periods, although most features were heavily truncated by later activity associated with the active RAF base. 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. A sand and gravel extraction site is recorded with the north-western end of the buffer, although it should be noted that this was not shown on any of the available historic OS maps. The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the eastern half of the site as mid- 20th century residential semi-detached housing. Previously this land was characterised by fields created through the parliamentary enclosure award dated to 1778, and prior to this the land formed part of the open fields of Auckley, Blaxton and Finningley. There is no legibility of these former landscape characters. The western half of the site and much of the north-western area of the buffer zone is characterised as agglomerated fields, created through the removal of previous field boundaries, with invisible legibility of the former Parliamentary Enclosure landscape. Much of the southern buffer zone is recorded as Doncaster Sheffield Airport, and to the east the area mostly comprises modern housing and industrial units. The site is currently two fields, with a small collection of buildings on the eastern side of the plot. A railway line runs along the southern site boundary. Blaxton is situated to the north and Doncaster Sheffield Airport is located to the south of the site, just outside of the buffer zone. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: On the 1854 OS map the site is shown as a field, which is part of a group of fields named Blaxton Field. The northern and western site boundaries are extant as field boundaries. The railway line that runs along the southern site boundary was first shown in 1894, named the Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway. By 1946 the current eastern site boundary was present together with the current internal field boundary within the site. A building had been constructed on the eastern plot of land by this time, at the northern end. By 1962 this was named Field House, and further buildings had been constructed within the western field, although these are unnamed. By 1985 the buildings in the western field had been removed and hachures around the edge of the western field suggest the ground level has been lowered. This may indicate that the site had been subject to gravel quarrying, or landscaping associated with the airport. By 1992 a second building had been constructed in the eastern field, comprising an L-shaped building built up to the boundary between the two fields. Within the buffer zone, the area mostly comprises fields in 1854, with very little development. Blaxton Balk was extant by this time, running north-south to the east of the site. By 1894 the Great Northern and Great Eastern North Railway had been constructed to the south of the site, and Finningley Station was located to the immediate southeast of the site. A pub and a villa had also been constructed to the southeast of the site by this time. By 1948, development had occurred on Blaxton Balk immediately to the east of the site, and some new buildings were also present to the south of the site, near the railway station. By 1961 a large pond had been created to the northwest of the site, highly suggestive of gravel quarrying, and further development had occurred off Blaxton Balk, to the east and south of the site, which created the present eastern site boundary. A partial 1981 map showed the area to the north of the site as having been excavated or lowered, with airport lights for Finningley Airport within the area just northwest of the site. By 1985 Blaxton Balk had been renamed Station Road.
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Survival: Lidar data and 1980s mapping indicate that the ground level in the western part of the site has been reduced, possibly through unrecorded sand and gravel quarrying, or landscaping associated with the airport. Buildings have been located within the eastern part of the site since the mid-20th century. The potential for the survival of significant archaeological remains is low to negligible. 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: Aerial photographs from 2002 show the western field to be empty, possibly used as pasture. In the 2002 image it appears to be rough grass, in common with the fields to the north, all of which were shown as possibly landscaped in 1985. The eastern field contains a house, probably the same one as shown on maps from 1946, and several smaller structures, which appear to be agricultural in nature. This includes the L-shaped structure which first appeared on the 1992 map, which is actually two separate buildings. By 2008 the site had been cleared of all buildings apart from the house, and two larger structures were under construction to the immediate north and west of it. The field boundary dividing the two fields had also largely been removed. By 2009, the 1946 house had been demolished, leaving only the two new buildings. The Lidar data clearly shows the height difference between the eastern and western sides of the site, with a substantial slope downwards from the edge of the housing into the field. Photograph references: Google Earth images 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009 & 2015. Lidar data files SK6699, SK6799. RAF/CPE/UK/1880 2118 06-Dec-1946
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 04719 Finningley Light A Second World War light anti aircraft gun emplacement at Y Anti Aircraft Gun Finningley. The exact location is not known. Emplacement 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. ESY289 Archaeological Trial Evaluation indicated sparse evidence for activity on the site Y Trenching at during the medieval and post-medieval periods. Most features Doncaster were heavily truncated by later activity when the site was an Finningley Airport active RAF base. A further evaluation trench and a watching brief were carried out in 2004 in the eastern part of the airport site. Two undated drainage ditches were identified in the evaluation trench.
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SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY4786 Mosham Road, Blaxton, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y Y HSY5970 Housing north of Finningley level crossing, Semi-Detached Housing Y Y Finningley, Doncaster HSY4531 Finningley, Auckley & Blaxton Commons, Surveyed Enclosure Y Doncaster (Parliamentary/ Private) HSY4644 Doncaster Sheffield Airport, Finningley, Airport Y Doncaster HSY4782 Wroot Road, Finningley, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y HSY4784 Station Road, Blaxton, Doncaster Utilities Y HSY5955 Recreation Ground, Finningley, Doncaster Playing Fields/ Recreation ground Y HSY5971 Station and Station Inn, Finningley, Doncaster. Train Station Y
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Allocation Reference: 317 Area (Ha): 1.91 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SK 6726 9978 Site Name: Land East of Station Road, Blaxton Settlement: Finningley
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/1 event Cropmark/Lidar evidence No No Cartographic features of interest No No Estimated sub-surface disturbance Unknown n/a
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Allocation Reference: 317 Area (Ha): 1.91 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SK 6726 9978 Site Name: Land East of Station Road, Blaxton Settlement: Finningley
Site assessment Known assets/character: There are no SMR records for the site itself, although one monument and one event are located within the buffer zone. To the southeast of the site is the assumed location of Finningley light anti-aircraft gun emplacement, although the exact location is unknown. The event is recorded at the very southern extreme of the buffer zone, which relates to evaluation trenching. This indicated sparse evidence for activity on the site during the medieval and post-medieval periods, although most features were heavily truncated by later activity associated with the active RAF base. There are no Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings recorded 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 as part of a sewage works, first depicted on the 1948 OS map. It was built on fields created through parliamentary enclosure in 1778 and prior to this formed commons. Legibility of the former landscape is invisible. The buffer zone comprises a mixture of character areas including a variety of modern housing, recreation ground, an airport, agglomerated fields and surveyed enclosure. The site comprises a thin strip of land, with a small collection of industrial buildings located primarily within the western half. The eastern half of the site is mostly empty with some grassy areas and trees. To the immediate south is a railway line and a modern housing estate and to the immediate west is Station Road. The main settlement of Blaxton is situated to the north, outside of the buffer zone. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: On the 1854 OS map the site is shown as a part of two fields. The railway line which currently runs along the southern site boundary is not present at this time, although it was by 1885, named the Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway. By 1946 three buildings were present at the western end of the site, constructed off Blaxton Bank, although their function is unclear. A larger building had been added to the east of these structures by 1956, with a small railway line leading from the main line into the site, directly up to the larger building. By 1964 this building labelled Works, and the small railway line had been removed. One of the three small building at the western end of the site, off Blaxton Bank, is labelled White Bungalow. By 1981 the larger building within the site is labelled Warehouse, as are the smaller collection of buildings at the western end of the site, at least one of which was previously a bungalow. By 1985 an additional smaller warehouse had been built on the site, located to the northeast of the first one. The eastern end of the site had remained undeveloped. By 1854, the majority of the buffer zone remained undeveloped fields. Blaxton Balk is present to the west of the site, and a small area of trees named Richardson’s Wood was present to the northeast. By 1855, the Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway had been established to the south of the site. Finningley Station was located to the immediate southwest of the site, along with some other small buildings, likely to be dwellings. A pub and a villa had also been constructed to the south of the site by this time. By 1946, development had occurred on Blaxton Balk immediately to the west of the site. These are unlabelled but judging from their size are probably dwellings. Immediately to the north of the site, just outside of the site boundary, a large building had been constructed by this time, likely to be industrial or agricultural in nature. By 1985 Blaxton Balk had been renamed Station Road and some works were marked immediately to the south of the railway line. Survival: Works buildings and infrastructure have been shown to exist on the site from historic mapping, which may have impacted on the preservation of buried deposits. The extent of this disturbance is currently unclear. As such, the potential for survival of buried archaeological remains on the site is currently unknown.
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Further investigations: Further investigation at the site may be required if the site is brought forward for development. Significance: Unknown.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: Twenty-first century aerial photographs show the large building at the south end of the site, first shown on the 1946 map, to still be present, along with the smaller structure to the north-west and the structure labelled as a Sewage Pumping Unit on the 1985 map. The structure to the north-east of the main building is no longer present. The majority of the site is used as storage for what appear to be large lorries. Images from Google Street View show the large building on the site, first depicted on the 1946 map, as barrel- shaped and constructed out of corrugated metal. The size, shape and material of the building (and the building to the immediate south in Site 317) is indicative of an aircraft hangar; it is possible that these structures were re- used from the nearby Finningley Airbase. The sign on the building from the most recent images (2008) reads G. Earnshaw Ltd. Haulage and Storage. No earthwork features of archaeological interest are visible in the Lidar data. Photograph references: Google Earth images 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2015. Google Street View 2008. Lidar data file SK6799.
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 04719 Finningley Light A Second World War light anti aircraft gun emplacement at Y Anti Aircraft Gun Finningley. The exact location is not known. Emplacement ESY289 Archaeological Trial Evaluation indicated sparse evidence for activity on the site Y Trenching at during the medieval and post-medieval periods. Most features Doncaster were heavily truncated by later activity when the site was an Finningley Airport active RAF base. A further evaluation trench and a watching brief were carried out in 2004 in the eastern part of the airport site. Two undated drainage ditches were identified in the evaluation trench.
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY4784 Station Road, Blaxton, Doncaster Utilities Y Y HSY4529 Blaxton Common, Blaxton, Doncaster Other Mineral Extraction & Y Processing HSY4531 Finningley, Auckley & Blaxton Commons, Surveyed Enclosure Y Doncaster (Parliamentary/ Private) HSY4644 Doncaster Sheffield Airport, Finningley, Airport Y Doncaster HSY4782 Wroot Road, Finningley, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y HSY4783 Wroot Road, Finningley, Doncaster Regenerated Scrubland Y HSY4786 Mosham Road, Blaxton, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y
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HSY5953 Finningley Historic Core, Finningley, Doncaster Vernacular Cottages Y HSY5955 Recreation Ground, Finningley, Doncaster Playing Fields/ Recreation ground Y HSY5956 Lindley Road, Chapel Close, Finningley, Private Housing Estate Y Doncaster HSY5958 Wroot Road, Finningley, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y HSY5970 Housing north of Finningley level crossing, Semi-Detached Housing Y Finningley, Doncaster HSY5971 Station and Station Inn, Finningley, Doncaster. Train Station Y
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Allocation Reference: 328 Area (Ha): 2.33 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SK 5365 9776 Site Name: Land off Tait Avenue, Edlington Settlement: Edlington
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: 328 Area (Ha): 2.33 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SK 5365 9776 Site Name: Land off Tait Avenue, Edlington 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 does not record any features with the site. Within the buffer zone, Iron Age to Romano-British enclosures and field systems have been recorded to the south and west of the site. Post-medieval ridge and furrow has also been recorded at the western end of the buffer zone. Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and the southern buffer zone as agglomerated fields. Removal of field boundaries in the second half of the 20th century has resulted in the loss of the formed character of strip fields enclosed from open fields. Additional character areas within the buffer zone include various housing types, schools, and surveyed enclosures. The site covers the northern part of a single field, located at the southern end of New Edlington. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The site is located over part of two strip fields on the 1854 map. Little Cockhill Lane was present on an approximate north-south alignment at the western end of the site, although this had largely been removed by 1892 and appears only as a field boundary. By 1961 houses had been completed to the immediate north of the site, which form the current northern site boundary. The White Greyhound pub had also been built immediately to the west of the site by this time, creating the western site boundary. By 1966 the majority of the internal field boundaries within and around the site had been removed, and the site covered the northern part of a single field. A school had been built to the immediate east of the site by 1973, forming the current eastern site boundary. There was little change on the 1994 map. In 1854 the area surrounding the site was made up primarily of strip fields. To the south-west of the site was the core of Old Edlington. The area to the north of the site was called Edlington Hill in 1893. By 1956 houses had begun to be constructed to the immediate north of the site, which were complete by 1961, and the White Greyhound pub had been built immediately to the west of the site by this time. Many of the field boundaries surrounding the site had been removed by 1966. By 1973 a school had been built to the immediate east of the site. Survival: The site is likely to have been in agricultural use since the medieval period. Though arable cultivation may have caused some truncation to below-ground deposits, the potential for the survival of previously unrecorded buried archaeological remains below the plough zone is considered to be moderate. Further investigations: Further archaeological investigations are likely to be required if the site is brought forward for development. Significance: Unknown. Note: Site 328 covers the northern part of Site 054.
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Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: Aerial photographs from 1999 show that the site is located across the northern part of a single narrow field, which had been created by the addition of field boundaries between 1994 and 1999; on the 1994 map the site was part of a much larger field. The site is currently used as arable land. The southern site boundary is not denoted on the ground. There is no available Lidar data for the site. Photograph references: Google Earth images 1999, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2015. RAF/541/170 4152 21-Sep-1948, MAL/62562 106847 16-Dec-1962, SK5397/3 NMR 12861/15 25-Jul-1996.
SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY4194 Wood Lane, Edlington, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y Y HSY4196 Edlington Common, Edlington, Doncaster Surveyed Enclosure Y (Parliamentary/ Private) HSY5616 Edlington Lane, Edlington, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y HSY5622 Hill Top Primary, Edlington, Doncaster School Y HSY5626 Tait Avenue, Edlington, Doncaster School Y HSY5643 Howbeck Drive, Edlington, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y HSY5871 Old Edlington, Doncaster Villas/ Detached Housing Y
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Allocation Reference: 329 Area (Ha): 0.98 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 6123 0970 Site Name: Off the Grove, Barnby Dun Settlement: Barnby Dun
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 - 1 SMR record/event - 4 records/1 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: 329 Area (Ha): 0.98 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 6123 0970 Site Name: Off the Grove, Barnby Dun Settlement: Barnby Dun
Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR does not record any monuments or events within the site. Four monuments and one event are recorded in the buffer. In the eastern part of the buffer are the church of St Peter and St Paul (also grade I listed), and a watching brief off Church Lane that identified the remains of a medieval building and an associated medieval to post-medieval ditch. In the southern part of the buffer is the site of the Old Manor House at Barnby Dun, and the estimated site of a group of three river fisheries on the Don, recorded in the Domesday Survey of 1086. No Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings are located within the site. One grade I building is located in the eastern part of the buffer, the 14th-century and later Church of St Peter and St Paul. 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 as agglomerated fields, created through the loss of field boundaries in the 20th century, and resulting in only partial visibility of the 1807 Parliamentary Enclosure landscape. Further character zones within the buffer include agglomerated fields to the west of the Don, vernacular cottages within the historic core of Barnby Dun, modern private housing estates, detached housing around the church and the church itself. The site is currently an area of meadow or rough grass between the River Don Navigation to the west and the Grove to the east. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The 1854 OS map shows the site as a narrow field defined by the current site boundaries. Trees are shown within the field, suggesting it may be part of a garden or park area. The northeast boundary is defined by an un-named lane leading to the vicarage and White House Farm to the north. In 1892, the site appears to form part of a park associated with Grove House to the east. A sheepwash was shown in the southern part of the site in 1932, still shown in 1962 but no longer present in 1983. No trees were shown within the site at the latter date. Within the buffer, the 1854 map shows St Peter's Church to the east of the site, and housing and farm buildings in the historic core of Barnby Dun to the southeast. The River Don Navigation runs along the south-western boundary of the site, with the course of the Old River Don running parallel to the west. A farm (now White House Farm) is shown to the northeast of the site, and the remainder of the buffer comprises fields. The 1892 map shows the house to the east of the site as Grove House, which appears to have parkland elements around it. A group of large buildings labelled Manor Kilns was shown to the east of Church Lane in 1893. These were labelled 'malt kilns' in 1930, connected by a branch line to the main railway and a malthouse to the northeast, outside the buffer. By 1956, several large embankments had been constructed across Thorpe Marsh to the west of the Don, part of a new diversion of the route of the Don. The 1970 map showed new housing development around the church and to the south, and the malt kilns were disused. By 1983, the malt kilns had been demolished, and the southeast end of the buffer contained new housing estates. A house had also been built to the immediate south of the site. Survival: The site appears to have been in use as parkland or a garden area since the late 19th-century. Other than some localised disturbance from tree roots, the potential for the survival of buried archaeological remains is considered to be moderate to high. Medieval remains have been recorded within the buffer, though all from within the core of the historic settlement. The proximity of the site to the course of the Old River Don suggests there may be the potential for the survival of buried alluvial sequences, which could contain palaeoenvironmental remains. Further investigations: Further archaeological investigations are likely to be required if the site is brought forward for development.
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Significance: Unknown. Buried palaeoenvironmental deposits could be of Local to Regional significance depending on their nature, extent and condition.
Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: The 2002-2015 aerial photographs show the site as rough grass, with trees along parts of the boundary and some trees within the site. To the east of the site, Grove House had been demolished and replaced with modern detached houses. Google Street View shows the vegetation as high grass or meadow, with occasional trees within the field and along the boundaries. The southeast boundary and the boundary along the eastern side of the southern end of the site is marked by a low limestone wall, with curved coping stones. This appears to be relatively old, and may be a feature from the park associated with Grove House from at least 1893. A similar wall is present in places to the north of the Grove. The northern part of the boundary appears to be a fence, though it is not possible to see this area in detail, but the aerial photographs suggest that the wall continues around the western part of the southern half of the site, again not continuing into the northern half. Lidar data shows several small mounds, but these appear to be in the location of trees on the aerial view. No other features are shown within the site. Photograph references: Google Earth coverage 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009 & 2015. Lidar data file SE6109 DTM 1m.
Statutory Designations Reference Name Designation/ Site? Buffer? ID Grade 1151488 Church of St Peter and St Paul I Y
SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 00430/01 The Old Manor Site of the Old Manor House, known to have been in existence Y House or the Old as far back as 1627. Hall, Barnby Dunn 00431/01 Church of St Peter Church - mostly early 14th century, with later tower and Y and St Paul, Barnby Victorian chancel. Dunn 02964/01 Medieval River Site of a group of three river fisheries on the River Don Y Fishery, Barnby mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 and described as Dun 'waste'. 04833 Medieval Building A medieval building and associated medieval/post-medieval Y (demolished), ditch found during excavation. Church Lane ESY317 Archaeological Between November 1999 and January 2003 an intermittent Y Watching Brief at watching brief was undertaken for land off Church Lane. The Church Lane results revealed the presence of a medieval building and an associated ditch dating to the medieval and post-medieval periods.
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SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY4494 Former open fields to the north and east of Agglomerated fields Y Y Barnby Dun HSY4428 Thorpe Marsh enclosed land, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y HSY4794 Estate to the north of Barnby Dun, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y HSY4845 Site of 'Manor Kilns', Barnby Dun, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y HSY4846 Manor Close and surroundings, Barnby Dun, Private Housing Estate Y Doncaster HSY4847 Barnby Dun, High Street area, Doncaster Vernacular Cottages Y HSY4854 Barnby Dun, St Peter and St Paul, Doncaster Religious (Worship) Y HSY4855 Housing around St Peter and St Paul, Barnby Villas/ Detached Housing Y Dun, Doncaster
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