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Doncaster Local Plan: Archaeological Scoping Assessment www.archeritage.co.uk Page 1 of 4 Allocation Reference: 753 Allocation Type: Employment Site Name: Land East Of Poplars Farm, Auckley Area (Ha): 11.09 NGR (centre): SK 6493 9878 Settlement: Auckley Allocation Recommendations Archaeological significance of site Unknown Historic landscape significance Negligible Suitability of site for allocation Uncertain archaeological constraint Summary Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event - 5 records/3 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence Yes Yes Cartographic features of interest No Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a

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Page 1: Allocation Reference: 753 Area (Ha): 11.09 Allocation Type ...... · Area (Ha): 11.09 NGR (centre): SK 6493 9878 Settlement: Auckley Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR

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Allocation Reference: 753

Allocation Type: Employment

Site Name: Land East Of Poplars Farm, Auckley

Area (Ha): 11.09

NGR (centre): SK 6493 9878

Settlement: Auckley

Allocation Recommendations

Archaeological significance of site Unknown

Historic landscape significance Negligible

Suitability of site for allocation Uncertain archaeological constraint

Summary

Within site Within buffer zone

Scheduled Monument - -

Listed Building - -

SMR record/event - 5 records/3 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: 753

Allocation Type: Employment

Site Name: Land East Of Poplars Farm, Auckley

Area (Ha): 11.09

NGR (centre): SK 6493 9878

Settlement: Auckley

Site assessment

Known assets/character:

The SMR does not record any monuments or events within the site. There are five findspots within the buffer

zone, all located to the northwest of the site. These comprise a Roman brooch, as well as Roman and medieval

pottery sherds. Three events are recorded in the buffer zone, all located to the north of the site. A geophysical

survey and subsequent evaluation recorded a ditch of unknown date and some possible remnant furrows, and a

second geophysical survey identified possible pits and a curvilinear ditch.

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 western end of the site, though recent Lidar suggests that this does not

survive as earthworks. At the southern edge of the buffer zone, the remains of a 20th

-century sand and gravel

extraction site are recorded.

The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as industrial to modern

assarted land, containing irregularly shaped fields which border the parish boundary and an area of ancient

replanted woodland. It is probable that the fields were assarted from the woodland. The enclosure award map of

1778 shows a series of fields, some of which are marked 'new closes' suggesting assartment may have happened

in the 18th

century. Legibility of the former landscape is invisible. Within the buffer zone, to the north is a small

area of woodland and an area of enclosed land, which was enclosed by Parliamentary Award in 1778 from

common land. The south and west of the buffer zone is largely characterised by woodland, with the Robin Hood

airport within the eastern part of the buffer zone.

The site currently comprises an irregularly-shaped plot of land, divided into three distinct fields, all of which

appear to be in arable use. An access road to Robin Hood airport runs along the northern site boundary, with the

remaining boundaries comprising hedges.

Cartographic/historic land use assessment:

On the 1854 map, the site was part of four fields with hedged boundaries. A roughly aligned north-south footpath

was located in the northern field. By 1922 a drain was marked between the north and south fields. By 1983 one

of the southern internal field boundaries had been removed. The site remained unchanged on the 1993 map.

Within the buffer zone, the area mostly comprised fields in 1854. Hurst Road was extant to the west of the site,

and small areas of woodland were present to the south of the site, named Turberg Tree Wood and Hurst Wood.

Hurst House is located just to the south of Hurst Wood, although by 1946 this had been demolished. To the

immediate west of the site was an area marked ‘Ruins’, although it is unclear what this corresponds to. To the

north is an area marked Poor’s Land. A small area in the south-western end of the buffer lay within Finningley

Park, which was also wooded. By 1892 the ruins were no longer marked on the map. By 1892 Savage Wood had

extended to the east into the western end of the buffer zone. Finningley Airfield was first shown on the 1955 map

the east side of the buffer. By 1961, Poplar’s Farm had been built to the northwest of the site, several houses had

been built along Hurst Lane and several drains had been inserted to the west of the site. At this time also, at the

southern end of the buffer zone, sand and gravel pits and a refuse tip were marked to the south of Hurst Wood.

By 1983, the airport to the east of the site had expanded, with some additional buildings located within the

buffer zone.

Survival:

There has been little recorded below-ground disturbance within the site; as such, the survival of any previously

unrecorded heritage assets within the site is considered to be moderate.

Further investigations:

Further archaeological investigations are likely to be required if the site is brought forward for development.

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Significance:

Unknown.

Aerial Photographs & Lidar

Summary:

Google Earth images from 2002-2005 show the site have to changed little from the 1993 OS map. By 2007, the

airport access road which leads to Robin Hood airport was under construction, and appears complete by 2008.

No change is evident on the site since then. The fields are all in use as arable land.

Lidar data is available for the majority of the site. Some linear features can be observed aligned roughly

northwest to southeast across both fields, probably relating to recent agricultural activity. The post-medieval

ridge and furrow recorded by the Magnesian Limestone Mapping Project from a 1948 photograph appears to

have been plough levelled and is not visible on the Lidar data.

Photograph references:

Google Earth images 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012 & 2015. Lidar data file SK6498 DTM 1m.

Photos transcribed by the Magnesian Limestone Mapping Project:

Ridge and furrow & sand and gravel quarry: RAF/541/35 3040 19-May-1948.

SMR Record/event

Reference

ID

Name Details Site? Buffer?

00442/01 Roman pottery

from Hanging Carr

Roman and Medieval pottery from ploughed field south of

Hanging Carr.

Y

00442/02 Medieval pottery

from Hanging Carr

Medieval pottery from ploughed field south of Hanging Carr. Y

00973/01 Roman pottery,

Auckley

2nd century roman pottery recovered through ploughing. Y

02821/01 Romano-British

Brooch Find,

Auckley

Romano-British brooch (1st century AD) found in 1987 after

removal of sugar beet.

Y

04303/01 Roman Pottery,

Auckley

A quantity of 2nd century Roman pottery found during

ploughing.

Y

ESY285 Geophysical Survey

for the Robin Hood

Airport Access

Route

In April 2006 a geophysical was undertaken for the access

route for Robin Hood airport. The results indicated the

presence of anomalies likely to reflect ridge and furrow

cultivation.

Y

ESY632 Archaeological

Evaluation Robin

Hood Airport

Business Park, Rail

Station and Access

Route

A programme of archaeological field evaluation was

undertaken at two sites, off Hurst Lane (Access Route) and

Hayfield Lane (Rail and Business park site) in the vicinity of

Robinhood Airport near Doncaster, South Yorkshire. A ditch of

unknown date was recorded within the Hayfield Lane Site and

some possible remnant furrows were recorded at the Hurst

Lane Site.

Y

ESY1376 Geophysical survey,

Hurst Lane,

Hayfield Green

Geophysical survey was undertaken on a plot of land at Hurst

Lane. Possible archaeological features were concentrated at

the eastern part of the site, and consisted of possible pits and

a curvilinear ditch.

Y

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SMR Historic Environment Characterisation

Reference

ID

Name Details Site? Buffer?

HSY4570 Hurst Lane, Auckley, Doncaster Assarts Y Y

HSY4489 Finningley Big Wood, Finningley, Doncaster Ancient Woodland Y

HSY4491 Finningley Park fields, Austerfield, Doncaster Assarts Y

HSY4544 Savage Wood, Auckley, Doncaster Plantation Y

HSY4606 Hag and Cadman's Plantation, Auckley,

Doncaster

Plantation Y

HSY4608 Hurst Lane, Auckley, Doncaster Surveyed Enclosure

(Parliamentary/ Private)

Y

HSY4610 Marr Flatts Plantation, Auckley, Doncaster Plantation Y

HSY4612 Hayfield Lane, Auckley, Doncaster Surveyed Enclosure

(Parliamentary/ Private)

Y

HSY4644 Doncaster Sheffield Airport, Finningley,

Doncaster

Airport Y

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Allocation Reference: 755 Allocation Type: Employment Site Name: Unit 3 Water Vole Way, Balby

Area (Ha): 1.12 NGR (centre): SE 5723 0109 Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area

Allocation Recommendations

Archaeological significance of site Negligible

Historic landscape significance Negligible

Suitability of site for allocation No archaeological constraint

Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event 1 event 2 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest No Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Partial n/a

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Allocation Reference: 755 Allocation Type: Employment Site Name: Unit 3 Water Vole Way, Balby

Area (Ha): 1.12 NGR (centre): SE 5723 0109 Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area

Site assessment Known assets/character:

The SMR records one event within the site, trial trenching evaluation for the First Point development. This identified a ring ditch and D-shaped enclosure of Roman date, both located to the east of the site, outside the buffer zone. The excavation of the D-shaped enclosure containing a probable round house is recorded as an event within the buffer. No features of archaeological interest were revealed within the site itself.

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. Earthwork ridge and furrow remains were recorded at the south side of the buffer zone on a photograph dated to 1948, though the majority of this area has since been developed.

The most recent imagery (2009) shows the site as an area of cleared, vacant land.

Cartographic/historic land use assessment:

The 1854 OS map showed the site as part of a rectangular field. The southern boundary was formed by a drainage ditch in a sinuous route, possibly a former stream. It was still shown as a field in 1994.

Within the buffer, the 1854 OS map showed mainly fields, regular surveyed enclosure to the north and more irregular fields to the south of the drain forming the southern boundary of the site, in an area called Wood Field. The 1903 map showed a building in a field to the northwest. By 1930 a sewage works established to the west by 1892 had extended into the buffer zone, with a sports ground depicted to the northwest in 1939. By 1956, housing was under development to the south of the site, north of Weston Road. The 1961 map showed a large works building to the north of the site, which had expanded by 1984. A small works building was shown in the east of the site by 1961, with a railway line leading southeast from the building, to Grass Road, outside the buffer. The function of the works is uncertain, but a travelling crane is shown on the recent OS map, presumably along the railway line.

Survival:

Archaeological evaluation has been undertaken across the site. The Roman settlement and agricultural features recorded were located outside the site to the southeast, with no features of archaeological interest identified within the site.

Further investigations:

The results of the trial trench evaluation suggest that no further archaeological investigations are likely to be required if the site is brought forward for development.

Significance:

Negligible.

Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary:

The 2002 aerial photograph shows the site as part of a field, as it had been shown on the 1992 OS map. The vegetation was rough grass. By 2008, the area of the site had been stripped of vegetation, and formed part of a wider stripped area extending into the buffer to the southeast. A road had been constructed through the area to the east up to the northeast edge of the site. A mound of earth or hardcore was shown in the northeast corner of the site. The 2015 image is obscured by clouds, but some materials appear to be stored in the southwest corner of the site. Lidar data shows a drain along the western side of the site, and the sinuous drain/stream along the

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southern boundary. The northern boundary is formed by a linear earthen bank, and the mound of soil visible on aerial photography is also shown in the Lidar data.

Photograph references:

Google Earth coverage 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009 & 2015. Lidar data tiles SE5601 & SE5701 DTM 1m.

RAF/541/170 4225 21-Sep-1948.

SMR Record/event Reference ID

Name Details Site? Buffer?

ESY1061 First Point, Balby Carr, Doncaster Areas B1, B2, B3, E

Trial trenching uncovered a ring ditch a V shaped ditch. The ring ditch was fully excavated.

Y Y

ESY1062 First Point, Balby Carr, Doncaster B2

Area strip and excavation following a previous evaluation on the site. The full extent of the V shaped ditch found in the evaluation phase was uncovered. This proved to be a D shaped enclosure surrounding a probable roundhouse.

Y

SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference ID

Name Details Site? Buffer?

HSY4232 Balby, Loversall and Potteric Carr, Doncaster Drained Wetland Y Y

HSY5277 Balby Carr Bank, Doncaster Metal Trades (Heavy) Y

HSY5278 Carr Hill, Doncaster Sports Ground Y

HSY5405 Balby Sewage Works, Balby, Doncaster Utilities Y

HSY5417 Woodfield Road, Balby, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY5422 Woodfield Road, Balby, Doncaster Regenerated Scrubland Y

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Allocation Reference: 757 Allocation Type: Employment Site Name: Redhouse Interchange, Brodsworth

Area (Ha): 5.97 NGR (centre): SE 5231 0793 Settlement: Adwick le Street/Woodlands

Allocation Recommendations

Archaeological significance of site Negligible

Historic landscape significance Negligible

Suitability of site for allocation No archaeological constraint

Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - 1 Listed Building - - SMR record/event 1 event 3 records/11 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: 757 Allocation Type: Employment Site Name: Redhouse Interchange, Brodsworth

Area (Ha): 5.97 NGR (centre): SE 5231 0793 Settlement: Adwick le Street/Woodlands

Site assessment Known assets/character:

The SMR records one event within the site, which extends into the eastern end of the buffer. This relates to a watching brief at the former Brodsworth Colliery, during which a number of cropmarks of unknown date were observed along with 20th century deposits.

Within the buffer, ten further events and three monuments are recorded. To the east of the site, immediately outside the site boundary, is the Scheduled Monument of the Roman Ridge Roman road, a major military route from Lincoln to York. To the north of the site, a rectilinear enclosure, roundhouse and assemblage of residual prehistoric flints were recorded during excavation. At the northwest edge of the buffer zone, an Iron Age to Romano-British trapezoidal enclosure was excavated in 2006-7, which provided evidence for internal subdivision, a roundhouse and several pits. The events within the buffer are all located at the northern end and relate to geophysical survey, watching briefs and excavations associated with the Iron Age to Roman agricultural landscape and dispersed settlement. They recorded linear boundaries with rectilinear enclosures, possibly forming a 'ladder settlement' arrangement, with pottery provisionally dated to between the 1st and 2nd centuries AD.

There is one Scheduled Monument within the buffer, an area of surviving agger/bank relating to the Roman Ridge road mentioned above. This is aligned roughly northwest to southeast and located at the very eastern extremity of the buffer. There are no listed buildings within the site or the buffer. The Scheduled Monument is unlikely to be impacted by development at the site.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project records fragmentary traces of Iron Age to Roman field boundaries within the western half of the site, extending into the buffer zone to the west and north. Within the west of the buffer, traces of levelled post-medieval ridge and furrow are recorded.

Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the majority of the site and the northern area of the buffer as the Redhouse Interchange, a commercial development of sheds with no legibility of the former enclosed fields. Within the south and east of the buffer, the area is characterised as the reclaimed coal mine of Brodsworth Colliery, which has been landscaped and is now regenerating as meadows and woodlands with only partial legibility of former extractive site. To the immediate west of the site, the area is characterised as a late 20th-century nursery with large glasshouses, retaining fragmentary legibility of a probable Enclosure period farmstead.

The site currently comprises a large arable field with an electricity substation in the southeast corner. Long Lands Lane forms the northern site boundary.

Cartographic/historic land use assessment:

On the 1851 OS map, the site was shown as a part of at least four fields. By 1892, some of the field boundaries had been removed, and the site was part of two fields. By 1930, a small building was shown at the approximate centre of the site. This may be associated with the Brodsworth Main Colliery, but its function is unclear. By 1961 the remaining north-south field boundary had been removed, and the site was part of a single plot of land, as it remains today. By 1965 the electricity substation had been constructed in the southeast corner of the site, with a small building to the southwest of the site. By 1966, both this and the small building in the centre of the site had been removed. No changes on the site were shown on the 1982 map.

Within the buffer, in 1851 the majority of the area comprised fields. A small patch of woodland was present to the east of the site, named Terry Holt, and a small limestone quarry was shown to the northeast of the site, on the northern side of Long Lands Lane. An east-west aligned track, marked Underhills Lane, was present to the south of the site, turning into a footpath at the eastern end of the site and joining the Roman road. There was little change in the buffer zone until 1930, by which time Brodsworth Main Colliery had been constructed to the south of the site, and a small group of buildings named Markham Grange had been constructed to the west of the site. On current OS mapping, Markham Grange has extended considerably to the west and is marked as a

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nursery. Brodsworth Colliery closed in 1990 and has since been reclaimed.

Survival:

The SMR records that this site has previously been subject to an archaeological watching brief. This is likely to have completed any archaeological mitigation required for the site.

Further investigations:

The watching brief previously undertaken within the site is likely to have completed the mitigation requirements, and no further archaeological investigations are likely to be required if the site is brought forward for development.

Significance:

Mitigation has already been undertaken at this site and it is likely that the residual significance of archaeological remains is negligible.

Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary:

Twenty-first century aerial photographs show the site as a single plot of arable land, with part of an electricity substation in the south-eastern corner, separated by trees. No features within the site have been identified on Lidar data.

Photograph references:

Google Earth images 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009. Lidar data file SE5207 DTM 1m.

RAF/CPE/UK/1879 1108 06-Dec-1946; SE5208/2 NMR 723/202-203 09-Jul-1974; SE5208/38 NMR 17570/37 02-Jul-2001.

Statutory Designations Reference ID

Name Designation/ Grade

Site? Buffer?

1003672 Roman Ridge, Roman road, NW of Doncaster Y

SMR Record/event Reference ID

Name Details Site? Buffer?

03039/01 'Roman Ridge', Roman Road at Adwick le Street/Bentley

Stretches of Roman road used recently as a bridle path. It would have been the main Roman road from Doncaster towards Castleford. Two phases of road were identified in excavations undertaken ahead of the construction of Doncaster Bypass. Topographic survey in 2009 identified areas of surviving ridge (agger).

Y

05639 Romano-British enclosures and field system, Redhouse Park, Adwick-le-Street

A number of enclosures, a trackway and a field system identified from aerial photography were confirmed by geophysical survey and excavation. Several enclosures containing pits, possible roundhouses and a beam slot for a rectangular building were excavated. The enclosures and droveway formed a 'ladder' type arrangement, embedded within a coaxial field system.

Y

05645 Late Iron Age to Romano-British enclosure and associated field system, Adwick-le-

Geophysical surveys and trial trenching in 1995-2001 identified a curvilinear enclosure and associated field system. The enclosure contained pits and gullies and was interpreted as a settlement area. The southern part was possibly a stock enclosure.

Y

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Street

ESY337 Trial Trench Evaluation at Adwick Le Street

In September and October 1996 an archaeological evaluation was undertaken. The trenches were positioned above features previous identified from a geophysical survey. A number of enclosures were located and investigated.

Y

ESY340 Geophysical Survey at Adwick Le Street

In 1995 a geophysical survey was undertaken at Adwick Le Street. The survey located a number of features previously identified on aerial photographs including field systems, an enclosure and double-ditched 'droveway'.

Y

ESY342 Geophysical Survey at Adwick Le Street

In June and September 2000 a geophysical survey was undertaken at Adwick Le Street. The results complement previous investigations and show an extensive area of linear boundaries with possible rectilinear enclosures.

Y

ESY343 Excavation of Enclosure 8 on Land at Redhouse Farm

Between October and December 2004 an excavation was conducted at Redhouse Farm on an enclosure identified in previous investigations. The area was characterised as a Romano-British sub-rectangular enclosure linked to additional features forming a 'ladder settlement' arrangement. A number of finds were recovered including Romano-British grey wares with a small percentage of red oxidised wares and black burnished wares. The pottery is provisionally dated to between the 1st and 2nd centuries AD.

Y

ESY358 Watching brief at the Former Brodsworth Colliery

In 2008 a watching brief was conducted at the former Brodsworth Colliery. A number of cropmarks of unknown date were observed along with 20th century deposits.

Y Y

ESY986 Survey of Roman Ridge Cycle path route

Measured and photographic survey of archaeological and modern features along path of cycle route.

Y

ESY1143 Watching brief on stripping for spine road & in Areas 7, 14, 15, 16 & 17, Redhouse, Adwick le Street

Watching brief on soil stripping for spine road & soil stripping in Areas 7, 14, 15, 16, & 17, Redhouse, Adwick le Street. Part of a field system and possible trackway, thought to be of Romano-British date, were identified as was part of a possible enclosure with a small number of pits containing pottery of 2nd-4th century AD date.

Y

ESY1144 Watching brief on site of Unit 6, Redhouse, Adwick le Street

Watching brief on topsoil stripping of the site of Unit 6, Redhouse, Adwick le Street (part of field system north and west of Enclosure 8, excavated in 2004 - thought to be Iron Age in origin but principally Romano-British in date).

Y

ESY1145 Watching brief on site of Unit 2, Redhouse, Adwick le Street

Watching brief on topsoil stripping of the site of Unit 2, Redhouse, Adwick le Street (Enclosure 6 and elements of the surrounding field system - thought to be Iron Age in origin but principally Romano-British in date)

Y

ESY1146 Excavation within Areas 2, 8, 12 & 17, Redhouse, Adwick-le-Street

Excavation of four enclosures identified by earlier geophysical survey (ESY 340 & ESY342); in use from the late Iron Age until sometime in the 2nd-4th centuries AD.

Y

ESY1407 Evaluation trenching at Roman Ridge Roman Road, Adwick le Street, Doncaster

Seven trenches excavated along a section of the Roman Ridge Roman Road between Sunnyfields and Red House. At the southern part of the investigated area limestone rubble possibly representing a former road surface was recorded. Several of the trenches failed to find remains of the road due to disturbance caused by Brodsworth Colliery. The presumed line of the road may need to be re-evaluated in the southern portion, where a nearby and parallel bank may represent the true road route.

Y

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SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference ID

Name Details Site? Buffer?

HSY4154 Redhouse Interchange, Brodsworth, Doncaster Warehousing Y Y

HSY4891 Site of Pit Head, Brodsworth Colliery, Doncaster

Reclaimed Coal Mine Y Y

HSY4160 Spoil tips, Former Brodsworth Main Colliery, Brodsworth, Doncaster

Reclaimed Coal Mine Y

HSY4593 Long Lands End, Adwick, Doncaster Nursery Y

HSY4894 Woodlands (North of Church), Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY4905 Woodlands (north), Adwick upon Street, Doncaster

Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY5722 Long Lands Lane, Doncaster Metal Trades (Support) Y

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Allocation Reference: 758 Allocation Type: Employment Site Name: Coronation Road, Crossbank, Balby

Area (Ha): 1.51 NGR (centre): SE 5691 0135 Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area

Allocation Recommendations

Archaeological significance of site Unknown

Historic landscape significance Negligible

Suitability of site for allocation Uncertain archaeological constraint

Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event - - Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest No Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a

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Allocation Reference: 758 Allocation Type: Employment Site Name: Coronation Road, Crossbank, Balby

Area (Ha): 1.51 NGR (centre): SE 5691 0135 Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area

Site assessment Known assets/character:

The SMR does not record any monuments or events within the site or the buffer zone.

No Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings are recorded within the site or the buffer zone.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project did not record any features within the site. Earthwork ridge and furrow was recorded in 1946 in an area at the southwest edge of the buffer zone, currently a playing field.

The Historic Environment Characterisation records the site as part of a large area of drained wetland retaining many historic field boundaries that probably resulted from the extensive drainage programme of the 17th century. Further character zones within the buffer include a sewage works, first shown in 1892, sports grounds and playing fields, an area of heavy metal trades and other works which began to industrialise in the later 19th century, terraced and planned social housing, allotment gardens, regenerated scrubland, a traveller community site and suburban commercial core.

The most recent imagery (2009) shows the site as an area of rough grass and scrub to the south of works buildings.

Cartographic/historic land use assessment:

No features were shown within the site on Thomas Jefferys’ 1771 map of Yorkshire. The site was shown as part of Balby Carr on the 1841 OS map. Cross Bank lane marked the northwest site boundary at that date, while land drains ran along the eastern and southern boundaries. The site was shown as two fields by 1854, and one larger field by 1892. This remained unchanged in 1961, when a drain was shown marking the southern boundary of the site, and one small building was shown at the southwest corner. By 1971, the works to the north had extended and the site was shown as land to the immediate south of a factory, with a new T-shaped drainage system within the site. The 1980 map showed the western half of the site as a separate enclosure. This layout was largely unchanged by 1994.

Within the buffer zone, several buildings were marked along roads to the north and west of the site in 1841, with the remaining area shown as fields. By 1892, the fields to the north and east of the site had become gardens for houses on the Cross Bank frontage, and a small building to the southeast was shown as Balby Sewage Works. Terraced housing had been built along the west side of Cross Bank by 1903, extending southwards by 1930, when the Bank had been renamed ‘Garden Terrace’. Allotments were shown to the west of the site at that date. By 1939, a rope works had been constructed in the buffer zone to the north of the site, with a bowling green and a tennis court shown adjacent to the works. By 1961, the works had been extended, with buildings shown in the former garden plot to the immediate north of the site, replaced by a larger factory building by 1977. The former gardens to the east of the site had become a refuse tip by that date.

Survival:

Historic mapping suggests that the site has had relatively little disturbance since the mid-19th century. Modern drainage ditches were cut through the site in the later 20th century, but otherwise the levels of sub-surface disturbance are likely to be low. The potential for the survival of unrecorded buried archaeology is therefore moderate.

Further investigations:

Further archaeological investigations may be required if the site is brought forward for development.

Significance:

Unknown.

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Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary:

The 2002-2015 aerial photographs show the site as an area of rough grass and scrub to the south of a factory building. The late 20th-century drainage ditches are visible within the site, with the earlier drain along the southern boundary possibly having been infilled or silted up. The vegetation at the western side of the site appears thin, and pale material shows through, suggesting it formerly had a hardcore surface within this area, perhaps a storage or parking area associated with the works. Lidar data shows the drainage ditches within the site, and a linear bank at the eastern side of the site, marked by a hedge on the aerial photographs.

Photograph references:

Google Earth coverage 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009 & 2015. Google Street View 2015. Lidar data tiles SE5601 & SE5701 DTM 1m. RAF/CPE/UK/1880 5102 06-Dec-1946.

SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference ID

Name Details Site? Buffer?

HSY4232 Balby, Loversall and Potteric Carr, Doncaster Drained Wetland Y Y

HSY5277 Balby Carr Bank, Doncaster Metal Trades (Heavy) Y Y

HSY5278 Carr Hill, Doncaster Sports Ground Y

HSY5405 Balby Sewage Works, Balby, Doncaster Utilities Y

HSY5417 Woodfield Road, Balby, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY5418 Lambeth Road, Balby, Doncaster Allotments Y

HSY5426 Sandford Road, Balby, Doncaster Playing Fields/ Recreation ground Y

HSY5428 Sandford Road, Balby, Doncaster Allotments Y

HSY5430 Lambeth Road, Balby Doncaster Romany or other Traveller Community site

Y

HSY5432 Sandford Road, Balby, Doncaster Regenerated Scrubland Y

HSY5460 Lambeth, Road, Balby, Doncaster Allotments Y

HSY5467 Burton Avenue, Balby, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y

HSY5468 Lister Avenue, Balby, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y

HSY5484 Balby Road, Balby, Doncaster Commercial Core-Suburban Y

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Allocation Reference: 762 Allocation Type: Employment Site Name: Centrix, Kirk Sandall Industrial Estate

Area (Ha): 0.996 NGR (centre): SE 6143 0779 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 Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest No Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a

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Allocation Reference: 762 Allocation Type: Employment Site Name: Centrix, Kirk Sandall Industrial Estate

Area (Ha): 0.996 NGR (centre): SE 6143 0779 Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area

Site assessment Known assets/character:

The SMR does not hold any records for the site itself. There is one event recorded at the north-western end of the buffer zone, related to a geophysical survey and subsequent evaluation. No anomalies of likely archaeological origin were observed from the geophysical survey. Two trial trenches were excavated to the north of the geophysical survey area which revealed a ditch, a small pit and two animal burials.

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 does not record any features within the site. Post-medieval ridge and furrow is recorded at the north-western end of the buffer zone.

The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and the southern area of the buffer zone as industrial, comprising a modern enterprise park. The dominant building type is large steel framed sheds. There is no legibility of the former piecemeal enclosure of possible open fields. The majority of the remainder of the buffer zone is made up of modern housing, retail and industry. A small area of plantation is located at the northern end of the buffer zone.

The site is currently a single irregularly-shaped plot of land, which appears to be wasteland.

Cartographic/historic land use assessment:

In 1854, the site was part of a large field, named Sandall Field. A railway line ran along the northwest edge of the site, with Doncaster Road forming the eastern boundary. There were no evident changes on the site until 1992, by which time the current site boundaries had been formed with the creation of a car park to the north, and industrial buildings to the south and west.

Within the buffer zone, the area mostly comprised fields in 1854. Moor Lane, Sandall Lane and Doncaster Road are all extant at this time, as was the railway line along the western site boundary. A rectory was located just to the northeast of the site and Park Plantation to the north. By 1930, Doncaster Glass Works had been established within the western end of the buffer, and a housing estate had been constructed to the east. This housing estate was spreading to the south by 1956, although was still under construction at this time. By 1974 much of the glassworks had become an engineering works, and by 1980 the buildings were labelled merely ‘Works’, later renamed as the Kirk Sandall Industrial Estate. By 1982, two small buildings, labelled ‘Works’, were present to the immediate south of the site, and by 1983 a number of small works buildings had been constructed to the west of the site, part of the Kirk Sandall Industrial Estate. The housing estate to the east of the site was also well established by this time. By 1992 a small open-air car park was located to the immediate north of the site.

Survival:

Due to the lack of recorded deep-ground disturbance on the site, the potential for survival of any unrecorded buried archaeology 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:

Google Earth images show the site as wasteland with several intercutting paths from 2002 onwards. Kirk Sandall Station is marked to the immediate north of the site, adjacent to the car park.

Lidar data does not contain any previously unknown heritage features within the site.

Photograph references:

Google Earth images 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2015. MAL/62562 106813 16-Dec-1962. Lidar data tile SE6107 DTM 1m.

SMR Record/event Reference ID

Name Details Site? Buffer?

ESY501 Geophysical Survey of Land south of Grove Farm

No anomalies of likely archaeological origin were observed from geophysical survey. Two trial trenches were excavated to the north of the geophysical survey area. A ditch, small pit and two animal burials (probably modern in date) were located but no associated artefacts were recovered.

Y

SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference ID

Name Details Site? Buffer?

HSY4759 Kirk Sandall Industrial Estate (South of Railway Line), Doncaster

Other Industry Y Y

HSY4633 Land between Kirk Sandall and Barnby Dun, Doncaster

Piecemeal Enclosure Y

HSY4748 Kirk Sandall Model Village, Kirk Sandall, Doncaster

Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY4750 Bowling Greens, Kirk Sandall, Doncaster Sports Ground Y

HSY4752 Graham Road Estate, Kirk Sandal, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY4754 Kirk Sandall Shops, Library and Hall Commercial Core-Urban Y

HSY4758 Doncaster Glass Works (site of), Kirk Sandall, Doncaster

Other Industry Y

HSY5693 Estate to the south east of Kirk Sandall, Doncaster

Private Housing Estate Y

HSY5694 The Grove, Kirk Sandall, Doncaster Plantation Y

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Allocation Reference: 763

Allocation Type: Employment

Site Name: Eco Business Park (Remainder), Hatfield

Area (Ha): 4.65

NGR (centre): SE 6537 1047

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 - -

SMR record/event - 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: 763

Allocation Type: Employment

Site Name: Eco Business Park (Remainder), Hatfield

Area (Ha): 4.65

NGR (centre): SE 6537 1047

Settlement: Hatfield Stainforth

Site assessment

Known assets/character:

The SMR does not record any findspots, monuments or events within the site. Two events are recorded in the

buffer zone: fieldwalking, geophysical survey and a desk-based assessment relating to the Hatfield Regeneration

Link Road and a watching brief at Bootham Lane.

No Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings are recorded within the site or the buffer zone.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project recorded an

undated ditch in the western part of the site. Similar features, including a probable continuation of the ditch, are

recorded in the west and north-west parts of the buffer zone. Levelled ridge and furrow is also recorded within

the buffer.

An area of historic landfill is present in the north-east part of the buffer.

The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as Surveyed Enclosure

(Parliamentary/Private). The historic character of this area rests principally on the surviving elements of its much

eroded boundary pattern, most of which pre-dated the 1825 enclosure award. Place-name evidence suggests a

earlier use as common land. Only around 20% of the historic hedgerow pattern survives although the survival

level is higher along the historic road pattern. Further character zones within the buffer are recorded as

Spoilheap; Planned Estate (Social Housing); Pre-fabs; Private Housing Estate; and Other Industry.

The site is currently occupied by a breakers’ yard and some light industrial units.

Cartographic/historic land use assessment:

The site was shown as fields on the 1825 Fishlake, Stainforth and Hatfield enclosure map. No changes were

shown within the site on OS maps produced between 1853 and 1906. Some field boundaries had been removed

by 1932. No further changes were shown within the site on OS maps produced up to 1984. By 2002, a breaker

yard and light industrial units were present within the site.

Various features were marked within the buffer zone on the 1853 OS map including fields, an area named ‘Calls’,

Parks Drain, Golden Hills, Dunscroft Wood, Hills Road, Carr Lane and Broad Lane Drain. Housing had been built in

the south-west part of the buffer by 1932, while a sewage pumping station was shown at the east. Private

housing, a bus depot and a slurry pond were shown in the buffer on the 1962 OS map, with further housing,

Greenacre Farm and an engineering works shown in 1972. A depot and two tips were shown in the eastern part

of the buffer in 1984.

Survival:

The site has been drained and cultivated since at least the early 19th century, which may have impacted on the

preservation of below-ground remains through truncation and desiccation. The late 20th

-century Eco Way and

Volks Heaven developments are unlikely to have involved deep ground disturbance and, given the cropmark

features in the western part of the site, the potential for the survival of buried archaeological remains below the

zone affected by ploughing is considered to be moderate to high.

Further investigations:

Further archaeological investigation is likely to be required if the site is brought forward for development.

Significance:

Unknown.

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Summary:

Twenty-first-century aerial photographs show the site occupied by the Volks Heaven car-breaker yard and the

Eco Way industrial units. There is no Lidar coverage for this site.

Photograph references:

Google Earth: 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009. Bing Maps: 2015.

SMR Record/event

Reference

ID

Name Details Site? Buffer?

ESY123 Hatfield

Regeneration Link

Road

Archaeological

Work

A desk-based assessment identified a good potential for

previously unrecorded prehistoric and Romano-British to be

sealed by the alluvium in this area. Field walking was

undertaken in 2004, with small quantities of probably

unworked flint found in two of the six fields walked. A

borehole survey undertaken in 2004 did not identify any

deposits with palaeoenvironmental potential. The geological

mapping of the area as alluvium over Sherwood Sandstone

appears to be at odds with the nature of the sequences

identified during this survey. Geophysical survey of eight fields

identified archaeological potential in four, including ditches

and pit-like anomalies, and a probable rectilinear enclosure

containing a circular feature.

Y

ESY515 Archaeological

Watching Brief at

Bootham Lane

In September 2006 a watching brief was conducted at

Bootham Lane. No sub-surface archaeological deposits or

structures were impacted upon by the foundation trenches.

Plough scars probably of recent date were observed.

Y

SMR Historic Environment Characterisation

Reference

ID

Name Details Site? Buffer?

HSY4472 Land to the north of Hatfield, Doncaster Surveyed Enclosure

(Parliamentary/ Private)

Y Y

HSY4470 Colliery tip, south of Hatfield Main Colliery,

Stainforth, Doncaster

Spoil Heap Y

HSY4684 Broadway, Dunscroft, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY4698 Abbey Walk Caravan Site, Hatfield, Doncaster Prefabs Y

HSY4699 North of Station Road between Dunscroft and

Stainforth, Doncaster

Private Housing Estate Y

HSY4700 Hop Hills Industrial premises, Dunscroft,

Doncaster

Other Industry Y

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Allocation Reference: 764 Allocation Type: Employment Site Name: Thorne Enterprise Park, King Edward Rd

Area (Ha): 0.303 NGR (centre): SE 69164 14347 Settlement: Thorne Moorends

Allocation Recommendations

Archaeological significance of site Unknown

Historic landscape significance Negligible

Suitability of site for allocation Uncertain archaeological constraint

Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event - - Cropmark/Lidar evidence No No Cartographic features of interest No Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a

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Allocation Reference: 764 Allocation Type: Employment Site Name: Thorne Enterprise Park, King Edward Rd

Area (Ha): 0.303 NGR (centre): SE 69164 14347 Settlement: Thorne Moorends

Site assessment Known assets/character:

The SMR does not record any monuments or events in 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 cropmark features in the site or the buffer zone.

The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as Other Industry and Planned Estate (Social Housing). Industrial development is first depicted in 1976. This large factory building is now in multiple occupancy as an industrial estate but is labelled on historic photographs as the AEI Factory. Geometric semi-detached housing (probably social housing due to uniformity of plan form units), fossilising in its exterior boundaries fragmentary legibility of former surveyed enclosures of the former 'North Common' enclosed as part of the 1825 enclosure award (see Haywood 1825). There is no legibility of former landscapes.

Landscape character zones within the buffer are defined as Drained Wetland; Planned Estate (Social Housing); Romany or Other Traveller Community site; and Other Industry.

One area of historic landfill is recorded within the buffer, a former brickworks site at King Edward Road.

Cartographic/historic land use assessment:

The site was shown as fields on the 1853 OS map. No further changes were shown within the site on OS maps produced between that date and 1984.

Various features were marked within the buffer zone on the 1853 OS map including fields, Thorne and Marshland Road, Stack Sike Drain, Broadbent Gate Road, Green Lane and North Land End Drain. A brick works has been built in the southern part of the buffer by 1892. A small number of houses had been constructed by 1906, with further housing shown on the 1932 and 1956 OS maps. A large engineering works had been built to the south of the site by 1962, with housing to the west by 1971.

Survival:

Due to the relative lack of deep ground disturbance, the potential for the survival of previously unrecorded buried archaeology is considered to be 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 the site as rough grassland. There is no Lidar coverage for this site.

Photograph references:

Google Earth: 2002, 2008 & 2009.

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SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference ID

Name Details Site? Buffer?

HSY4654 'Tree Estate (Northern Section), Thorne, Doncaster

Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y Y

HSY4670 Frontier Works, Thorne, Doncaster Other Industry Y Y

HSY4395 Thorne Cables (Agglomerated section), Thorne, Doncaster

Drained Wetland Y

HSY4416 North Common, Thorne, Doncaster Drained Wetland Y

HSY4652 'Tree Estate' (southern section), Thorne Doncaster

Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY4670 Frontier Works, Thorne, Doncaster Other Industry Y

HSY4671 Shepherds Rest Caravan Site, Thorne, Doncaster

Romany or other Traveller Community site

Y

HSY5647 Coulman Street. Thorne, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y

HSY4395 Thorne Cables (Agglomerated section), Thorne, Doncaster

Drained Wetland Y

HSY4416 North Common, Thorne, Doncaster Drained Wetland Y

HSY4652 'Tree Estate' (southern section), Thorne Doncaster

Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY4654 'Tree Estate (Northern Section), Thorne, Doncaster

Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY4671 Shepherds Rest Caravan Site, Thorne, Doncaster

Romany or other Traveller Community site

Y

HSY5647 Coulman Street. Thorne, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y

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Allocation Reference: 767 Allocation Type: Employment Site Name: Railport Expansion Land, White Rose Way

Area (Ha): 2.30 NGR (centre): SE 5821 0143 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 Cropmark/Lidar evidence No No Cartographic features of interest No Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a

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Allocation Reference: 767 Allocation Type: Employment Site Name: Railport Expansion Land, White Rose Way

Area (Ha): 2.30 NGR (centre): SE 5821 0143 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, although no features or finds of archaeological significance were recorded.

There are no Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings within the site or the buffer zone.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project does not record any features within the site or the buffer zone.

Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as railway sidings and depots. Before the railway was established, the area consisted of agricultural land. The original pattern of enclosures was created by a programme of drainage on Doncaster Carr. This resulted in a series of straight and regular fields aligned on the drainage ditches. Legibility of the former landscape is invisible. Further character areas within the buffer zone include a business park and industrial estate.

The site currently comprises a narrow strip of scrubland situated in between two areas of industrial development. The railway line is to the immediate south of the site, with Decoy Bank South and the A6182 to the north.

Cartographic/historic land use assessment:

By 1854 the site was part of a group of fields labelled Doncaster Carr. The majority of the field boundaries within this area were drains. Decoy Bank was present on a northwest to southeast alignment, running approximately through the centre of the site, flanked by a drain at each side. By 1930 some railway sidings had been constructed at the very southern end of the site, although by 1980 these had been removed. There was no evident change on the 1992 map.

The majority of the area surrounding the site was fields in 1854, most with drainage boundaries. The mainline Great Northern Railway was already extant running to the immediate south of the site, and a circular area of trees named Decoy Wood was present to the southeast of the site. By 1892 numerous sidings had been constructed from the southern side of the mainline, to the south of the site, and a Wagon Depot had been constructed to the south of the site, which by 1903 had been extended to the west. Also by 1903 a gasometer was present to the west of the site and Red Bank Viaduct had been established next to it. By 1930 the sidings to the immediate south of the site were named Decoy Sidings, and those to the west were labelled Mineral Sidings. The gasometer buildings had been removed by 1972 and by 1980 some of the sidings had been removed. By 1984 the A6182 had been constructed to the north of the site, although with the exception of this by 1992 much the northern end of the buffer zone remained relatively undeveloped, remaining as fields with numerous drainage boundaries.

Survival:

The site remained a part of fields until the late 1990s/early 2000s, with the exception of the very southern tip of the site, which contained railway sidings. This would have had minimal below-ground impact. Due to the relative lack of deep ground disturbance known to have existed on the site, the potential for the survival of previously unrecorded below-ground archaeological remains on the site is considered to be moderate.

Further investigations:

Further archaeological investigations may be required if the site is brought forward for development.

Significance:

Unknown.

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Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary:

Twenty-first century aerial photographs show that the current site boundaries had been created by 2002, with industrial buildings present to the immediate east and west of the site, and the road Decoy Bank South, which previously ran through the site, re-aligned to run directly along the northern site boundary. No change is evident on the site since 2002, and the site currently comprises scrub wasteland.

No previously unrecorded archaeological remains have been identified within the available Lidar data for the site.

Photograph references:

Google Earth images 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2015

SMR Record/event Reference ID

Name Details Site? Buffer?

ESY899 Archaeological Watching Brief at Tesco Distribution Centre, Doncaster, South Yorkshire

An archaeological watching brief was undertaken concurrent with the excavation of series of geotechnical test pits at the Tesco Distribution Centre on White Rose, Doncaster. No archaeological deposits, features or artefacts were identified in any of the test pits. The only deposits disturbed by these ground works were of modern rubble and made ground.

Y

SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference ID

Name Details Site? Buffer?

HSY5261 Railway Sidings, Doncaster Train Depot/ Sidings Y Y

HSY5239 Doncaster Carr, Doncaster Business Park Y

HSY5277 Balby Carr Bank, Doncaster Metal Trades (Heavy) Y

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Allocation Reference: 770 Allocation Type: Employment Site Name: Zone B3 – Carr Hill, Balby Carr

Area (Ha): 4.69 NGR (centre): SE 5738 0104 Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area

Allocation Recommendations

Archaeological significance of site Unknown

Historic landscape significance Uncertain

Suitability of site for allocation Uncertain archaeological constraint

Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event 1 event 2 records/2 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest Yes No Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a

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Allocation Reference: 770 Allocation Type: Employment Site Name: Zone B3 – Carr Hill, Balby Carr

Area (Ha): 4.69 NGR (centre): SE 5738 0104 Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area

Site assessment Known assets/character:

The SMR records one event within the site and extending into the buffer, comprising trial trenching evaluation for the First Point development. This evaluation covered the southern part of the site, and identified a floor and demolition deposits related to a post-medieval farmhouse, partially intruding into the western edge of the site. A ring ditch and D-shaped enclosure of Roman date were both located in the buffer to the southeast of the site. The ring ditch, possibly a barrow, and D-shaped enclosure containing a probable round house were fully excavated as a separate event and are also recorded as monuments within the buffer.

No Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings are located within the site or buffer zone.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project did not record any features within the site. Earthwork ridge and furrow remains were recorded at the south side of the buffer zone on a photograph dated to 1948, though the majority of this area has since been developed. A linear ditch of uncertain date was recorded in the area to the southeast of the site, within the Zone B2 area. This is likely to have been part of a Roman field system, with more extensive remains found during excavation of this area.

The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as part of a large area of drained wetland retaining many historic field boundaries that probably resulted from the extensive drainage programme of the 17th century. Some of this character has been lost following more recent development of the area. Further character zones within the buffer comprise a sewage works, a sports ground, a large area of heavy metal trades and other works adjacent to the railway, where industrialisation began in the later 19th century, a school and planned social housing.

The most recent imagery (2009) shows the site as predominantly an area of cleared, vacant land along the southern side, with areas of rough grass to the north and a small works building in the central east area.

Cartographic/historic land use assessment:

The 1854 OS map showed the site as part of two fields, both similarly sized, rectangular fields suggestive of surveyed enclosure from former commons. One of the fields had been subdivided into two by 1892. The southern boundary was formed by a drainage ditch in a sinuous route, possibly a former stream. By 1961, a small works building was shown in the central east part of the site, with a railway line leading southeast from the building to Grass Road, outside the buffer. A small structure or enclosure was shown along the southern side of the site, unlabelled. The works building had been extended eastwards by 1975. The remaining area of the site was shown as undeveloped, and the layout was unchanged by 1992. The function of the works is uncertain, but a travelling crane is shown on the recent OS map, presumably along the railway line.

Within the buffer, the 1854 OS map showed mainly fields, regular surveyed enclosure to the north and more irregular fields to the south of the drain forming the southern boundary of the site, in an area called Wood Field. Cuckoo Lane or Common Lane ran through the southern edge of the buffer, and Balby Carr Bank through the northern edge. The 1903 map showed a building in a field to the northwest. By 1930 a sewage works established to the west by 1892 had extended into the buffer zone. Common Lane had been renamed Weston Road and Carr View Farm was shown at the southern edge of the buffer. By 1956, housing was under development to the south of the site, north of Weston Road. The 1961 map showed a large works building to the north of the site and sports ground to the northwest, which had expanded by 1984.

Survival:

Archaeological evaluation has been undertaken in the stripped southern half of the site. This identified remains of a post-medieval farmhouse at the western edge, possibly just outside the site. Roman settlement and agricultural features were located outside the site to the southeast, where more extensive excavation was undertaken. The northern parts of the site have not been evaluated, and the potential for the survival of unrecorded buried archaeology within this area is considered to be moderate.

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Further investigations:

Further archaeological investigations are likely to be required in the northern half of the site if it is brought forward for development, with mitigation likely to be complete in the southern half.

Significance:

Unknown. Remains associated with Roman settlement and agriculture could be of Local to Regional significance depending on their extent, nature and condition.

Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary:

The 2002 aerial photograph shows the small works building and railway line within the site. The surrounding area to the north, west and south was grassland, with trees along the drain/stream at the southern boundary. By 2008, the southern half of the site had been stripped of vegetation and a new road had been built within it, to the south of the works building. Just to the southeast of the site, a new distribution warehouse was shown. The 2015 image is obscured by clouds. Lidar data shows the features shown on the aerial photography, and a drainage ditch around the north and east edges of the northwest part of the site. A linear bank runs along the southern edge of this part of the site. The possible stream at the southern boundary is shown as a sinuous hollow.

Photograph references:

Google Earth coverage 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009 & 2015. Lidar data tiles SE5601 & SE5701 DTM 1m.

RAF/541/170 4225 21-Sep-1948; OS/92256 0275 20-Jul-1992.

SMR Record/event Reference ID

Name Details Site? Buffer?

05035 Romano-British Ring Ditch, Balby Carr

A ring ditch identified during excavation. No finds were recovered, but a Roman radiocarbon date was retrieved. The lack of an entrance way into the enclosure may suggest this is a ditch for a ploughed out barrow.

Y

05036 Enclosure and Associated Round House, Balby Carr

A 'D' shaped enclosure with other ditches running off it was exposed during excavations on this site. Within the enclosure was a ring ditch suggestive of a roundhouse drip gully, with an entrance way to the northeast. Radiocarbon dating indicates the enclosure and ring ditch are contemporary and dated to the end of the 1st millennium BC.

Y

ESY1061 First Point, Balby Carr, Doncaster Areas B1, B2, B3, E

Trial trenching uncovered a ring ditch and V-shaped ditch. The ring ditch was fully excavated.

Y Y

ESY1062 First Point, Balby Carr, Doncaster B2

Area strip and excavation following a previous evaluation on the site. The full extent of the V-shaped ditch found in the evaluation phase was uncovered. This proved to be a D shaped enclosure surrounding a probable round house.

Y

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SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference ID

Name Details Site? Buffer?

HSY4232 Balby, Loversall and Potteric Carr, Doncaster Drained Wetland Y Y

HSY5277 Balby Carr Bank, Doncaster Metal Trades (Heavy) Y

HSY5278 Carr Hill, Doncaster Sports Ground Y

HSY5330 Balby Carr School, Balby, Doncaster School Y

HSY5405 Balby Sewage Works, Balby, Doncaster Utilities Y

HSY5417 Woodfield Road, Balby, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

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Allocation Reference: 771 Allocation Type: Employment Site Name: Redhouse Corner, Brodsworth

Area (Ha): 5.333 NGR (centre): SE 5255 0819 Settlement: Adwick le Street/ Woodlands

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 - 1 SMR record/event 1 event 6 records/10 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: 771 Allocation Type: Employment Site Name: Redhouse Corner, Brodsworth

Area (Ha): 5.333 NGR (centre): SE 5255 0819 Settlement: Adwick le Street/ Woodlands

Site assessment Known assets/character:

The SMR records one event within the site, a geophysical survey, though none of the survey areas appear to cover the site itself. The survey extended throughout the northwest part of the buffer, locating a number of features previously identified on aerial photographs including field systems, an enclosure and double-ditched 'droveway'.

There are ten further events are six monuments in the buffer zone recorded in the SMR. The events relate to geophysical surveys and trial trenches, all located within the north and west sides of the buffer. These investigations Romano-British settlement and field systems, with pottery from the settlement provisionally dated to between the 1st and 2nd centuries AD. The six monuments within the buffer zone comprise two locations of rectilinear enclosures with round houses, recorded to the west and to the north of the site (and derived from events recorded above); a crouched burial to the northwest of the site; Woodlands Colliery Village, a model village constructed in the early 20th century for miners at the nearby Brodsworth Colliery, at the southeast end of the buffer; and the route of a Roman road from Lincoln to York via Doncaster, part of which survives as an earthwork to the immediate east of the site, and is a Scheduled Monument.

There is one Scheduled Monument within the buffer, a surviving earthwork section of the Roman road known as the Roman Ridge. This is located to the immediate east of the site boundary. There is one grade II listed building within the buffer, a pair of semi-detached houses built in 1908 as part of the Woodlands colliery village, at the southeast end of the buffer.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project records fragmentary traces of Iron Age/Roman field boundaries at the southern end of the site, which extend to the west and north into the buffer zone and beyond.

Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and the majority of the western side of the buffer zone as modern warehousing of the Redhouse Interchange characterisation area, a commercial development of sheds with no legibility of the former enclosed fields. The northeast part of the buffer is characterised as a planned social housing estate at Woodlands, a later part of the colliery village built on the same geometric principles as the original development, part of which is located in the southeast part of the buffer. Within the south of the buffer, the landscape is characterised as the site of Brodsworth Colliery pit head, , a landscaped former coal mine now regenerating as meadows and woodlands, with partial legibility of the former extractive site.

The site currently comprises several small parcels of land, currently used as allotments with a small strip of arable land at the southern end of the site. The Roman Ridge Scheduled Monument runs along the eastern site boundary, with Long Lands Lane at the southern boundary.

Cartographic/historic land use assessment:

On the 1851 OS map, the site was part of four narrow fields. By 1892, some of the boundaries had been removed and the site covered part of two fields. No changes were apparent on the site until 1962, when allotment gardens and associated small structures are present over the northern half of the site. The site remained unchanged on the 1982 map.

Within the buffer, in 1851 the majority of the area comprised fields. Immediately to the southeast of the site, a limestone quarry was marked, although this had gone by 1948. A house called Windy Mount was present to the west of the site. The site was located at a crossroads of Long Lands Lane, Ridge Balk, and the Roman Road. There were few changes until 1906, when an area of woodland appeared to the south of the site, labelled Terry Holt. By 1930, a water works had been built to the east of the site, on the opposite side of the Roman Road, and Brodsworth Main Colliery had been established to the south of the site. To the southeast, a housing estate was built, associated with the colliery. By 1961, further houses had been constructed to the northeast of the site.

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Survival:

The site was part of surveyed enclosure in 1830, and little development has occurred on the site since, with the exception of allotment gardens at the northern end of the site. Due to the relative lack of deep ground disturbance, the survival of any previously unrecorded heritage assets on the site is considered to be moderate to high. The site does not currently appear to have been covered by the evaluation or mitigation of the wider Redhouse Interchange area.

Although the HEC plots the site within the Redhouse Interchange area, with no legibility of former landscape characters, the northern and central east-west boundary within the site do seem to correspond to boundaries on the 1851 OS map, which are likely to relate to the 1830s enclosure of the area.

Iron Age to Romano-British cropmark ditches have been recorded as cropmarks in the southern area of the site; geophysical survey in the vicinity identified further features not visible as cropmarks, and there is the potential for similar features within the site.

Further investigations:

Further archaeological investigation is likely to be required if the site is brought forward for development. Assessment of the impact of development on the setting of the Roman Ridge road Scheduled Monument may also be required.

Significance:

The fragmentary traces of Iron Age to Romano-British boundaries recorded within the site are part of a wider landscape of features of this date, some of which have been excavated and have revealed enclosures, roundhouses and field systems. Remains within the site could be of Local to Regional significance depending on their extent, nature and condition.

Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary:

Google Earth images from 2002 show the site as allotment gardens in the northern half, with arable fields to the south. By 2003, construction on large sheds to the north and west of the site had begun, which was completed by 2008. By 2015, the southern half of the site also contains allotment gardens, with only a very narrow strip of arable land at the extreme southern edge of the site.

The only earthwork features visible in Lidar data relate to the allotments.

Photograph references:

Google Earth images 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008. Lidar data file SE5208 DTM 1m.

ULM AZC 076 26-Jul-1969; SE5208/2 NMR 723/202-203 09-Jul-1974; OS/90184 0043 18-Jul-1990; SE5208/38 NMR 17570/37 02-Jul-2001.

Statutory Designations Reference ID

Name Designation/ Grade

Site? Buffer?

1003672 Roman Ridge, Roman road, NW of Doncaster Y

1314857 23 and 25, West Avenue II Y

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SMR Record/event Reference ID

Name Details Site? Buffer?

03039/01 'Roman Ridge', Roman Road at Adwick le Street/Bentley

Stretches of Roman road used recently as a bridle path. It would have been the main Roman road from Doncaster towards Castleford. Two phases of road were identified in excavations undertaken ahead of the construction of Doncaster Bypass. Topographic survey in 2009 identified areas of surviving ridge (agger).

Y

04432/01 Woodlands Colliery Village

Model village constructed in the early 20th century for miners at the nearby Brodsworth Colliery.

Y

04915 Roman Road; Bawtry to Adwick Le Street via Doncaster

Suggested Roman road following the original line of military advance from Lincoln towards York, entering South Yorkshire in the south-east at Bawtry, travelling north-west through Doncaster and Adwick Le Street and then on towards Castleford.

Y

05639 Romano-British enclosures and field system, Redhouse Park, Adwick-le-Street

A number of enclosures, a track or droveway and a field system, arranged in a rectilinear form, were identified from aerial photography. The location and survival of these remains were confirmed by geophysical survey and excavation. Several enclosures containing pits, possible roundhouses and a beam slot for a rectangular building were excavated. The enclosures and droveway formed a 'ladder' type arrangement, embedded within a coaxial field system.

Y

05643 Romano-British enclosure and field system, Redhouse, Doncaster

Trapezoidal enclosure excavated in 2006/7; evidence for internal subdivision, a roundhouse and several pits was recorded.

Y

05644 Probable late prehistoric crouched inhumation, Adwick-le-Street

During a watching brief on soil stripping in 2006/7, a crouched inhumation burial was identified. The remains were poorly preserved and were unaccompanied by grave goods, so the burial is undated but it is assumed to be late prehistoric in date.

Y

ESY337 Trial Trench Evaluation at Adwick Le Street

In September and October 1996 an archaeological evaluation was undertaken. The trenches were positioned above features previous identified from a geophysical survey. A number of enclosures were located and investigated.

Y

ESY340 Geophysical Survey at Adwick Le Street

In 1995 a geophysical survey was undertaken at Adwick Le Street. The survey located a number of features previously identified on aerial photographs including field systems, an enclosure and double-ditched 'droveway'.

Y Y

ESY342 Geophysical Survey at Adwick Le Street

In June and September 2000 a geophysical survey was undertaken at Adwick Le Street. The results complement previous investigations and show an extensive area of linear boundaries with possible rectilinear enclosures.

Y

ESY343 Excavation of Enclosure 8 on Land at Redhouse Farm

Between October and December 2004 an excavation was conducted at Redhouse Farm on an enclosure identified in previous investigations. The area was characterised as a Romano-British sub-rectangular enclosure linked to additional features forming a 'ladder settlement' arrangement. A number of finds were recovered including Romano-British grey wares with a small percentage of red oxidised wares and black burnished wares. The pottery is provisionally dated to between the 1st and 2nd centuries AD.

Y

ESY358 Watching brief at the Former Brodsworth Colliery

In 2008 a watching brief was conducted at the former Brodsworth Colliery. A number of cropmarks of unknown date were observed along with 20th century deposits.

Y

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ESY986 Survey of Roman Ridge Cycle path route

Measured and photographic survey of archaeological and modern features along path of cycle route.

Y

ESY1143 Watching brief on stripping for spine road & in Areas 7, 14, 15, 16 & 17, Redhouse, Adwick le Street

Watching brief on soil stripping for spine road & soil stripping in Areas 7, 14, 15, 16, & 17, Redhouse, Adwick le Street. Part of a field system and possible trackway, thought to be of Romano-British date, were identified as was part of a possible enclosure with a small number of pits containing pottery of 2nd-4th century AD date.

Y

ESY1144 Watching brief on site of Unit 6, Redhouse, Adwick le Street

Watching brief on topsoil stripping of the site of Unit 6, Redhouse, Adwick le Street (part of field system north and west of Enclosure 8, excavated in 2004 - thought to be Iron Age in origin but principally Romano-British in date).

Y

ESY1145 Watching brief on site of Unit 2, Redhouse, Adwick le Street

Watching brief on topsoil stripping of the site of Unit 2, Redhouse, Adwick le Street (Enclosure 6 and elements of the surrounding field system - thought to be Iron Age in origin but principally Romano-British in date).

Y

ESY1407 Evaluation trenching at Roman Ridge Roman Road, Adwick le Street, Doncaster

Seven trenches excavated along a section of the Roman Ridge Roman Road between Sunnyfields and Red House. At the southern part of the investigated area limestone rubble possibly representing a former road surface was recorded. Several of the trenches failed to find remains of the road due to disturbance caused by Brodsworth Colliery. The presumed line of the road may need to be re-evaluated in the southern portion, where a nearby and parallel bank may represent the true road route.

Y

SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference ID

Name Details Site? Buffer?

HSY4154 Redhouse Interchange, Brodsworth, Doncaster Warehousing Y Y

HSY4160 Spoil tips, Former Brodsworth Main Colliery, Brodsworth, Doncaster

Reclaimed Coal Mine Y

HSY4891 Site of Pit Head, Brodsworth Colliery, Doncaster

Reclaimed Coal Mine Y

HSY4894 Woodlands (North of Church), Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY4905 Woodlands (north), Adwick upon Street, Doncaster

Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY5722 Long Lands Lane, Doncaster Metal Trades (Support) Y

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Allocation Reference: 777 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: ‘Plot 3’, Harlington

Area (Ha): 2.35 NGR (centre): SE 4836 0237 Settlement: Harlington

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 - - Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest No Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a

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Allocation Reference: 777 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: ‘Plot 3’, Harlington

Area (Ha): 2.35 NGR (centre): SE 4836 0237 Settlement: Harlington

Site assessment Known assets/character:

The SMR does not record any monuments or events within the site or the buffer zone.

There are no Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings within the site. Two grade II listed buildings are located in the buffer zone to the northwest of the site, within the core of Harlington village.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project does not record any features within the site. Fragmentary cropmarks of probable Iron Age to Roman field boundary ditches are recorded within the buffer to the east, west and south of the site.

Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and the southern half of the buffer as surveyed enclosure, dating to the 1822 Parliamentary Enclosure of former common land. Other character zones within the buffer comprise further Parliamentary Enclosure from former open field to the northeast, whilst to the northwest are the historic core area of Harlington and 20th-century private and social housing estates. A small area of a well-preserved strip enclosures extends into the western edge of the buffer.

The site is currently three narrow fields, bounded by Doncaster Road on the north and the edges of gardens off Hill Lane to the west.

Cartographic/historic land use assessment:

The 1854 map shows the site as two fields, defined by the current main field boundaries. The fields are regular and characteristic of surveyed Parliamentary Enclosure. The area is called Barnbrough Common, indicating it was enclosed from common land. The eastern tip of the site was cut by the Dearne Valley Railway between 1903 and 1930. No changes occurred within the site by 1985.

Within the buffer, the 1854 map shows Parliamentary Enclosure fields to the east, south and north of the site. The edge of Harlington village is shown to the northwest, to the north of Doncaster Road at its junction with Mill Lane. The 1892 map shows the buildings within this area as probable farms and a smithy, the latter no longer shown in 1903. By 1930, a railway line runs through the buffer from northwest to southeast, shown as the LMSR Dearne Valley Railway and embanked as it passes the site. Some development had occurred in a field to the west of the site by 1948, with semi-detached houses shown in this field by 1966, and a further house was built to the east of the site adjacent to the railway, accessed via a lane to the immediate east of the site. The field to the west of the site was fully occupied by housing and a pumping station by 1977, at which date the railway line was disused, though the embankment still survived. By 1985, part of the embankment had been levelled to the east of the site, with some development on its former route, which is preserved as a linear strip of land.

Survival:

The site has been fields since at least the mid-19th century, most recently used for pasture. The lack of substantial sub-surface development indicates that the potential for the survival of unrecorded buried remains is high. Cropmarks of probable Iron Age to Roman ditches have been recorded in the vicinity of the site, and there is the potential for similar remains to extend into the site, which may have been under pasture at the time the photographs were taken and therefore not conducive to the formation of cropmarks.

Further investigations:

Further archaeological investigations are likely to be required if the site is brought forward for development.

Significance:

Unknown. Remains associated with Iron Age to Roman activity could be of Local to Regional significance depending on their extent, nature and condition.

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Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary:

The 2002 aerial photographs show the site as two fields defined by hedges, with the eastern field divided into two by a modern fenceline. The fields are grassed and used as pasture for grazing horses. Between 2003 and 2008, the western field appeared to have been subdivided into a number of smaller plots, perhaps defined by fences, possibly for enclosing small numbers of animals. Two sheds or stables were shown at the western edge of the site at that date. There is no Lidar coverage for the site.

Photograph references:

Google Earth 2002, 2003, 2008 & 2009.

RAF/543/9 F21 0033 19-Jun-1957; OS/70141 0035 24-May-1970; MAL/70057 0027 18-Jul-1970; MAL/71024 0175 17-Apr-1971.

Statutory Designations Reference ID

Name Designation/ Grade

Site? Buffer?

1293361 Bank End Farmhouse II Y

1314755 Old Hall II Y

SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference ID

Name Details Site? Buffer?

HSY4226 Barnbugh Common, Barnburgh, Doncaster Surveyed Enclosure (Parliamentary/ Private)

Y Y

HSY4229 Former Parliamentary Enclosure of Open Field, Barnburgh, Doncaster

Surveyed Enclosure (Parliamentary/ Private)

Y

HSY5753 Harlington historic core area, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y

HSY5754 The Avenue / Manor Road, Harlington, Doncaster

Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY5755 Housing to the north west of Harlington village, Doncaster

Private Housing Estate Y

HSY5756 Crane Moor Close, Harlington, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y

HSY5770 Well preserved strip enclosures to the south of Harlington village core, Doncaster

Strip Fields Y

HSY5771 Fitzwilliam Drive, Barnburgh, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y

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Allocation Reference: 778 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Land adj. Broadacres, Doncaster Road

Area (Ha): 0.41 NGR (centre): SE 6588 0893 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 - 4 SMR record/event - 2 records Cropmark/Lidar evidence No No Cartographic features of interest No No Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a

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Allocation Reference: 778 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Land adjacent Broadacres, Doncaster Road

Area (Ha): 0.41 NGR (centre): SE 6588 0893 Settlement: Hatfield Stainforth

Site assessment Known assets/character:

The SMR records two monuments within the buffer zone. The monuments comprise a post-medieval ice house at Bow House, to the north of the site, and the site of a medieval windmill to the southwest of the site.

No Scheduled Monuments are recorded within the site or the buffer zone. Four listed buildings are present within the buffer zone, all of which are Grade II listed; two of these lie to the north, whilst two are situated to the northeast.

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 majority of the site and the southwest part of the buffer as part of surveyed enclosure dating to the 1825 Enclosure Award, with most of the boundaries still in existence today as historic hedgerows. There is no legibility of former the open field, but a significant area of well-preserved enclosure landscape exists. A narrow western strip of the site is characterised as modern housing development, with partial legibility of previous form.

Further character areas within the buffer include a variety of housing developments. There is no legibility of former landscape characters in the majority of the buffer due to this modern development. A small area in the southwest of the buffer comprises the character area of Lings Field, which retains significant legibility of the 1825 Parliamentary Enclosure landscape.

The site currently comprises a single plot of land, possibly used for pasture, with a narrow strip of hard-standing at its western edge. The site is bounded by Lings Lane to the west, and hedge boundaries elsewhere.

Cartographic/historic land use assessment:

The site is shown on the 1855 OS map as part of a single field. By 1992, the current southern site boundary had been established.

Within the buffer zone, the basic modern road pattern was recognisable by 1855. At this time, a number of buildings are present at the south-western end of the site, one being the Artesian Well Brewery, which had extended southwards by 1907 and changed its name to Don Valley Brewery by 1930. It had closed by 1962, when the buildings were labelled Council Yard. To the immediate north of the site, an Ice House is shown within the grounds of Bow House in 1855. Fields called The Lings are present to the south of the site, with a large house to the north of Manor Road named Hatfield House. A few smaller houses are present on Manor Road, but the area surrounding the site is fairly undeveloped at this time. By 1930, almshouses are marked just to the northwest of the site, with further houses shown on the eastern side of Lings Lane. By 1948, the area to the north of the site is becoming heavily developed, with new buildings off Manor Road and Ash Hill Road. Hatfield House had been demolished by 1962 and in its place are the beginnings of a modern estate, well established by 1984. By 1966, the area between Doncaster Road and Coppice Lane is also developed. The area to the southeast of the site remains relatively undeveloped in contrast to the majority of the buffer.

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 moderate.

Further investigations:

Further archaeological investigation may be required if this site is brought forward for development.

Significance:

Unknown.

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Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary:

Twenty-first-century aerial photographs appear to show the site as arable land, with a strip of hard-standing to the west. The Lidar data available for this site does not contain or features which have not previously been recognised.

Photograph references:

Google Earth coverage, 2002, 2003, 2008 & 2009.

Statutory Designations Reference ID

Name Designation/ Grade

Site? Buffer?

1151586 Barn immediately to south east of Hatfield House farmhouse II Y

1151587 Coachhouse immediately to south west of Hatfield House farmhouse

II Y

1192291 Ash Hill Lodge II Y

1286546 Bow House II Y

SMR Record/event Reference ID

Name Details Site? Buffer?

02750/01 Mound and Ice house, Bow House, Hatfield

Ice House Y

02751/01 Site of ?Windmill and Mound, Hatfield

Tower Mill Mound Y

SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference ID

Name Details Site? Buffer?

HSY4476 New Mill Field, Hatfield, Doncaster Surveyed Enclosure (Parliamentary/ Private)

Y Y

HSY4729 1 - 11 Lings Lane, Hatfield, Doncaster Villas/ Detached Housing Y Y

HSY4487 Lings Field, Hatfield, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y

HSY4686 Hatfield High School, Hatfield, Doncaster School Y

HSY4690 Late twentieth century housing between Hatfield historic core and Dunsville, Doncaster

Semi-Detached Housing Y

HSY4692 Former Heath Field, Hatfield, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y

HSY4723 Manor Lane / Ash Hill, Hatfield, Doncaster Villas/ Detached Housing Y

HSY4728 Lings Lane, Hatfield, Doncaster Vernacular Cottages Y

HSY4731 'Park Lane' / High Street, Dunscroft. Private Housing Estate Y

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Allocation Reference: 780 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Land at Thorne Road

Area (Ha): 2.66 NGR (centre): SK 6580 9366 Settlement: Bawtry

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 Partial n/a

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Allocation Reference: 780 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Land at Thorne Road

Area (Ha): 2.66 NGR (centre): SK 6580 9366 Settlement: Bawtry

Site assessment Known assets/character:

The SMR does not record any monuments or events within the site. One monument and one event are recorded within the buffer zone. A site of Roman activity is located in the southwest part of the buffer, adjacent to the River Idle. A watching brief in this area revealed pottery sherds and coins dating to the 3rd and 4th centuries, as well as in situ column bases, indicating a building. A further geophysical survey did not record and anomalies but it is thought there is still potential for archaeological remains.

No Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings are recorded within the site or the buffer.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project does not record any features within the site or the buffer, but this area is not covered by that project.

The Historic Landscape Characterisation records the character of the site and part of the buffer as piecemeal enclosure with minimal boundary loss, enclosed prior to 1766 probably from open fields. The area to the north of site is recorded as private housing and agglomerated fields. To the south is an area of valley floor meadows known as Bawtry Washlands. This is an area of open pasture along the floodplain of the River Idle. The area is labelled as 'Bawtry Carr' on maps suggesting a more scrubland and wooded environment previously.

The site is currently a field in arable cultivation, bounded to the north by Thorne Road.

Cartographic/historic land use assessment:

The 1854 OS map shows the site situated within the current piecemeal enclosure. The 1890 map depicts the line of the Great Eastern Railway running north-south in the western part of the buffer. The area remained largely unchanged until the 1992 OS map when the housing estate to the north of the site had been developed.

Survival:

Cartographic assessment shows that the site has been used for farming and although some sub-surface archaeological deposits may be truncated, the potential for the preservation of any deeper archaeological remains is moderate to high. Roman pottery and a probable building were recorded in a field to the southwest.

Further investigations:

Further archaeological investigation is likely to be required if this site is brought forward for development.

Significance:

Unknown. Remains associated with Roman activity could be of Local to Regional significance, depending on their nature, extent and condition.

Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary:

Recent aerial photography shows the site to be a field in use for arable cultivation. The field boundaries are defined by hedges and are unchanged from the 1852 OS map. No obvious cropmarks were visible within the field on any of the photographs, and Lidar data shows only modern cultivation marks and the field boundaries.

Photograph references:

Google Earth: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2009 & 2012. Lidar data file SK6593 DTM 1m.

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SMR Record/event Reference ID

Name Details Site? Buffer?

04912 Roman Site on the River Idle Washlands, Bawtry

The site of Roman activity dating to between the 3rd and 4th centuries with finds including pottery, coins and in-situ structural remains.

Y

ESY466 Geophysical Survey on the River Idle Washlands

Watching brief identified significant numbers of Roman pottery shreds and coins dating to the 3rd and 4th centuries. In-situ columns bases were revealed indicating a structure, which from the finds evidence may have had a religious function. In April 2006 a geophysical survey was conducted on the River Idle Washlands. The survey was undertaken following the discovery during archaeological monitoring of a significant cluster of Roman coins, pottery and in-situ structural masonry. The survey did not locate any anomalies but there is the potential for archaeological remains

Y

SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference ID

Name Details Site? Buffer?

HSY4562 Thorne Road, Bawtry, Doncaster Piecemeal Enclosure Y Y

HSY4553 Bawtry Washlands, Bawtry, Doncaster Valley Floor Meadows Y

HSY4587 Narrow Lane, Bawtry, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y

HSY5525 Station Road, Bawtry, Doncaster Terraced Housing 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

HSY5542 Queens Crescent, Bawtry, Doncaster Semi-Detached Housing Y

HSY5572 Highfield Road, Bawtry, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y

HSY5591 Housing to the south of Austerfield, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y

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Allocation Reference: 784 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Cuckoo Lane, Hatfield

Area (Ha): 1.2 NGR (centre): SE 6634 0976 Settlement: Hatfield Stainforth

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 - 6 SMR record/event - 5 records/2 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence No No Cartographic features of interest No No Estimated sub-surface disturbance Partial n/a

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Allocation Reference: 784 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Cuckoo Lane, Hatfield

Area (Ha): 1.2 NGR (centre): SE 6634 0976 Settlement: Hatfield Stainforth

Site assessment Known assets/character:

The SMR records five monuments and two events within the buffer zone. The monuments comprise the Church of St Lawrence, which is 12th century in origin and Grade I listed, located to the south of the site. Three timber framed buildings are also recorded, located to the south and southeast of the site, as well as an Elizabethan coin found on Main Street, to the south of the site. Both events are also located to the south of the site; archaeological monitoring at St Lawrence Vicarage, which recorded a post-medieval ditch and pit, and excavations at the church, which revealed a 17th- to 18th-century ditch.

No Scheduled Monuments are recorded within the site or the buffer zone. Six listed buildings are present within the buffer zone, one of which is the grade I listed Church of St Lawrence. The remaining five grade II listed buildings are all situated to the south of the site within the historic core of Hatfield, though it should be noted that the location of the Travis Charity School (1192369) on the Historic England database is wrong, with the building actually being to the west of the point shown, on the opposite side of the road to the current Hatfield Travis Infant School, which is of modern origin.

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 central and eastern parts of the site as a well-preserved section of 'Firth Field', a well-maintained group of parliamentary enclosure fields retaining nearly all of the hedgerows first shown on 1825 enclosure map. There is fragmentary visibility of previous landscape types. A small section at the western end of the site is characterised as mid-20th-century factory buildings, with no legibility of the earlier surveyed enclosure of open field.

Within the buffer are a variety of landscape character areas, mostly comprising modern housing, with some areas of surveyed enclosure. To the north-east of the site is Jubilee Park, municipal parkland created from part of the former Firth Field. Jubilee Park first appears on OS maps between 1967 and 1982. The park contains fragmented lines of trees originating from the surveyed enclosure of the field. Within the remainder of the buffer, legibility of former landscapes characteristics is poor, due to modern development in the form of houses and schools.

The site currently comprises open land to the east, with a mid-20th-century factory building and associated car park to the west. The site is bounded to the west by Cuckoo Lane, to the north by an unnamed lane, and to the south and east by hedging.

Cartographic/historic land use assessment:

The site is shown on the 1854 OS map as the northern half of a single plot of land. There was little change in the first half of the 20th century, but by 1962, a factory was built at the western end of the site. This had been extended by 1973 and again by 1982, with the addition of two small ancillary buildings to the south and northwest of the main building. The present southern site boundary had been established by 1982, probably to separate the factory from the expanding Travis Infant School, located to the south. There has been little further change to the site since then, although a car park was established to the immediate northeast of the factory at some point between 1982 and 2002.

Within the buffer zone, Cuckoo Lane, which forms the western site boundary, was extant by 1854. The historic core of Hatfield was located to the south and west of the site, with numerous buildings along High Street and Station Road/Cuckoo Lane. A grammar school shown to the southwest of the site off Cuckoo Lane was labelled Travis’s Charity School in 1892. By this date also, a gasworks was shown to the northwest of the site, but had been demolished by 1956. The 1966 map showed that a new Travis Primary School had been built on the opposite side of Cuckoo Lane, and Cuckoo Lane was becoming heavily developed, particularly on its western side. By 1982, Hatfield Manor Middle School had been constructed to the north of the site, along with the lane which forms the northern site boundary. The area to the north and northeast of the site has remained undeveloped and

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largely retains the field enclosure pattern of 1825.

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 moderate in the eastern part of the site. Within the footprint of the factory at the western end of the site, the survival of any previously unrecorded buried archaeology is considered to be low.

Further investigations:

Further archaeological investigation may be required if this site is brought forward for development. The impact of the development on the setting of the nearby grade II listed former Travis Charity School, to the southwest of the site, may need to be considered.

Significance:

Unknown.

Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary:

The 2002-2009 aerial photography shows a mid-20th-century office/factory building and associated car park within the western part of the site, and a small field of rough grass. Lidar data for the site shows an irregular small mound along the southern site boundary. As this boundary was established in 1982, the mound is unlikely to be of archaeological significance.

Photograph references:

Google Earth coverage, 2002, 2003, 2008 & 2009. Lidar data tile SE6609 DTM 1m.

Statutory Designations Reference ID

Name Designation/ Grade

Site? Buffer?

1151582 Hawthorne House II Y

1151591 Numbers 11 and 13 including the Shoe Box II Y

1192349 Iron gates to south east corner of churchyard to church of St Lawrence

II Y

1192369 Old Travis Charity School [location shown on map is incorrect] II Y

1192399 Hatfield Methodist Church II Y

1192628 Church of St Lawrence I Y

SMR Record/event Reference ID

Name Details Site? Buffer?

00432/01 Church of St Lawrence, Hatfield

Church, 12th century and later Y

01527/01 Timber framed cottages, Hatfield

Cottages (probably timber framed) Hatfield. "Row of cottages, now shops…renovated 18th century…earlier core, almost certainly timber framed'.

Y

01528/01 Timber Framed Barn, Hatfield

Barn of 18th century date showing clear replacement of timber frame elements in brick.

Y

01529/01 Timber Framed Building, Hatfield

Anglers Shop, timber framed building, Hatfield. Medieval. Y

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02733/01 Elizabethan Coin, Main Street, Hatfield

Elizabethan silver coin AR 6d of Elizabeth I (1561) found at Green Acres, Main Street in Hatfield.

Y

ESY987 St Lawrence Vicarage, High Street, Hatfield

Plot A and access road topsoil stripping. Showed 17th/18th century ditch.

Y

ESY1431 Excavations at the Church of St Lawrence, Cuckoo Lane, Hatfield, South Yorkshire

Excavations ahead of the construction of two soakaway pits. Eight post-medieval inhumations and an assemblage of disarticulated human bone and associated funerary small finds were recorded. Monitoring of service trenches and pits yielded further disarticulated human remains.

Y

SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference ID

Name Details Site? Buffer?

HSY4483 Well preserved section of 'Firth Field', Hatfield, Doncaster

Surveyed Enclosure (Parliamentary/ Private)

Y Y

HSY4707 Factory, Cuckoo Lane, Hatfield, Doncaster Other Industry Y Y

HSY4472 Land to the north of Hatfield, Doncaster Surveyed Enclosure (Parliamentary/ Private)

Y

HSY4484 Jubilee Park, Hatfield, Doncaster Playing Fields/ Recreation ground Y

HSY4690 Late twentieth century housing between Hatfield historic core and Dunsville, Doncaster

Semi-Detached Housing Y

HSY4694 Housing within the former 'West Field', Hatfield, Doncaster

Semi-Detached Housing Y

HSY4695 Hund Oak estate, Hatfield, Doncaster Semi-Detached Housing Y

HSY4696 Station Road, Hatfield, Doncaster Villas/ Detached Housing Y

HSY4706 Hatfield Manor Middle School. Doncaster School Y

HSY4708 Travis C of E School, Hatfield, Doncaster Other Industry Y

HSY4710 St Lawrence Church, Hatfield. Religious (Worship) Y

HSY4711 Medieval core plots of Hatfield, Doncaster Burgage Plots Y

HSY4712 Station Road Shopping Parade, Hatfield, Doncaster

Commercial Core-Urban Y

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Allocation Reference: 786 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: South of Cockhill Close, Bawtry

Area (Ha): 0.25 NGR (centre): SK 6519 9265 Settlement: Bawtry

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 - 15 SMR record/event - 6 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: 786 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: South of Cockhill Close, Bawtry

Area (Ha): 0.25 NGR (centre): SK 6519 9265 Settlement: Bawtry

Site assessment Known assets/character:

The SMR does not record any monuments or records within the site. Six monuments and four events are recorded within the buffer. The monuments include a possible Iron Age to Roman enclosure recorded as a cropmark in a field to the south of the site, the possible site of Bawtry's medieval inland port, and medieval pits and linear features recorded during excavation at Bridge Lane House on Gainsborough Road. Post-medieval houses, cottages and a dovecote within Bawtry are also recorded, including Bawtry Hall and former stables and dovecote, which are also listed buildings. The events included the archaeological evaluation and excavation at Bridge Lane House, as well as a further evaluation at Gainsborough Road and another at The Courtyard, neither of which identified any archaeological features pre-dating the post-medieval period.

No Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings are recorded within the site. One Scheduled Monument, a market cross, is located at the north edge of the buffer. Fifteen listed buildings are located within the buffer. Bawtry Hall, near the northwest edge of the buffer is grade II* listed, the remaining 14 are grade II and relate to the historic core of Bawtry to the northwest of the site, with one war memorial located to the west of the site.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project does not record any features within the site or buffer; however, the site may be just outside the area covered by this project. One cropmark feature is recorded to the south of the site on the SMR.

Historic Environment Characterisation records the site and part of the western buffer as Bawtry Hall and front lawns. The hall was reputedly built in the late 18th century, possibly on the site of an earlier hall. The remaining part of the ornamental park associated with the hall is located at the western edge of the buffer. Further character zones within the buffer include an area of possible burgage plots, the market place, an industrial building east of the historic core of the town, and detached housing to the north, with an area of open valley floor meadows in the northeast part of the buffer. No landscape character information is available for the southern part of the buffer, which is in Nottinghamshire.

Historic landfill data records an area of infilled ground to the north of the site, at Gainsborough Road. The nature of the landfill, other than ‘inert’, is not recorded.

The site is currently a plot of land enclosed by low hedges to the north, grassed and containing several ornamental trees, with taller trees along the western and southern boundaries. It appears to be a garden.

Cartographic/historic land use assessment:

The 1854 map shows the site as part of a field bounded to the north by Cock Hill Lane, to the west by South Parade and along the south by a long, narrow pond called 'Clothes Hedge Pond'. The county boundary ran through the pond on the same alignment as the site boundary. The site may be part of the lawns associated with Bawtry Hall, the area to the west of the site being occupied by trees. The 1886 map shows Clothes Hedge Pond as silted up, and a drainage ditch running through it, forming the county boundary. Between 1962 and 1967, the western boundary of the site was established, and the eastern boundary by 1992.

Within the buffer, the 1854 map shows development to the north of Cock Hill Road, in the area between South Parade and Church Street, with Bawtry Hall to the northwest in an area of parkland. The Great Northern Railway ran through the eastern edge of the buffer, and the area to the south of the site comprised fields slightly suggestive of enclosure from medieval open field. Further development took place to the north of the site, west of Church Street, between 1956 and 1962, by which date the former field to the south of the site was shown as a sports ground. Cockhill Lane had been extended across the north side of the site by 1985, with further development shown to the north of the lane in 1992, by which date a farm had been built to the west of the sports ground.

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Survival:

The site has been a garden or lawn since at least the mid-19th century. Trees within the site and around the edges may have caused some sub-surface disturbance, but in general the potential for the preservation of unrecorded buried archaeology is considered to be moderate. The drainage ditch to the south of the site marks the county boundary.

Further investigations:

Further archaeological investigations may be required if the site is brought forward for development.

Significance:

Unknown.

Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary:

The 2002-2012 aerial photographs show the site as a grassed area, with trees along the west and south boundaries, and smaller ornamental trees within the field. A low hedge forms the northern boundary, and the area appears to be a garden. Shadows from the trees make it difficult to pick out any features within the site, but Street View shows it as a fairly level area with no clear earthwork features. Lidar data shows earthwork remains of the former Clothes Hedge Pond to the immediate south of the site, but no features within the site itself.

Photograph references:

Google Earth coverage 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009 & 2012. Lidar data file SK6592.

Statutory Designations Reference ID

Name Designation/ Grade

Site? Buffer?

1012154 Market cross SM Y

1151542 Dower House Restaurant II Y

1151546 1 South Parade II Y

1151547 12, South Parade II Y

1151549 Dovecote and stables to rear of no 9 Swan Street (forming premises of M.A. Morris and of J.H.M. Butt ltd)

II Y

1151550 Bawtry Hall II* Y

1191421 Rest Haven II Y

1191619 8 and 10, South Parade II Y

1191656 5, Swan Street II Y

1191664 2 and 4, Swan Street II Y

1191685 14, Swan Street II Y

1239428 Bawtry Bridge II Y

1314811 6 and 8, Swan Street II Y

1314846 2, 4 and 6, South Parade II Y

1314847 1 and 3, Swan Street II Y

1420445 Bawtry War Memorial II Y

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SMR Record/event Reference ID

Name Details Site? Buffer?

03368/01 Iron Age or Romano-British Enclosure, Bawtry

Iron Age or Romano-British enclosure recorded from cropmark evidence.

Y

03502/01 Medieval Inland River Port, Bawtry Wharf

Bawtry port and wharf are recorded as far back as the thirteenth century. The site is possibly unique and of great archaeological potential

Y

03570/01 Post-Medieval Dovecote, Bawtry

Dovecote and stables to the rear of No 9 Swan Street. Now a store and commercial premises. Built c.1800 with alterations.

Y

04518/01 Bawtry Hall Post-Medieval House

House and ancillary buildings including farm complex and gatehouse.

Y

04519/01 Post-Medieval and Industrial Period Cottages, Bawtry

Cottages - row of late 18th century cottages, largely modernised.

Y

04988 Site of Medieval and Post Medieval Activity, Gainsborough Road, Bawtry

The site appears to have lain at the periphery of the medieval town of Bawtry. Excavation identified four phases of activity, with c.12th-14th century pits and a ditch, possibly representing town plot divisions; 14th-16th century pits and fence lines, along with a pit/pond that may have been associated with hemp processing, possibly to supply canvas and rope to river vessels. Post-medieval walls and drains were also recorded.

Y

ESY464 Gainsborough Road Excavations

After an excavation of six trial trenches within the proposed area for development, no features of any archaeological significance were discovered. However, this importantly implies that the focus for Bawtry's river trade lay further to the north.

Y

ESY467 Archaeological Evaluation at Bridge Lane House

In July 2006 a programme of trial trenching was undertaken at Bridge Lane House. A number of features relating to medieval settlement and water management were identified including post-holes, a timber-lined (barrel) pit, a channel/ditch and a possible pond. These features appear to have gone out of use by the post-medieval period. Medieval and post-medieval pottery was recovered from all trenches and other artefacts included animal bone, clay tobacco pipe, glass, leather, metal and wood.

Y

ESY469 Archaeological Evaluation at The Courtyard, High Street, Bawtry

In 2006 a programme of trial trenching was undertaken at The Courtyard off High Street in Bawtry. Despite being located within what is believed to be the medieval core of Bawtry and close to medieval structures, no structural remains pre-dated the post-medieval period. However, the presence of hand-made bricks within the area indicates the presence of an earlier structure within the vicinity.

Y

ESY993 Mitigation on land at Bridge Lane House, Bawtry, Doncaster

Area excavation following previous evaluation trenching Y

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SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference ID

Name Details Site? Buffer?

HSY5574 Bawtry Hall and front lawns, Bawtry, Doncaster

Elite Residence Y Y

HSY4553 Bawtry Washlands, Bawtry, Doncaster Valley Floor Meadows Y

HSY5524 Burgage area, Bawtry, Doncaster Burgage Plots Y

HSY5556 Bawtry Market Place and High Street, Bawtry, Doncaster

Markets Y

HSY5557 Industrial building east of Bawtry Historic Core, Doncaster

Other Industry Y

HSY5566 Wentworth Court and St Nicholas Way, Bawtry, Doncaster

Villas/ Detached Housing Y

HSY5573 Bawtry Park, Bawtry, Doncaster Private Parkland Y

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Allocation Reference: 788 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Land at Sprotbrough

Area (Ha): 10.48 NGR (centre): SE 5450 0283 Settlement: Sprotbrough

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/Registered Park - 0/1 SMR record/event 1 record 3 records Cropmark/Lidar evidence Yes Yes Cartographic features of interest No Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a

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Allocation Reference: 788 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Land at Sprotbrough

Area (Ha): 10.48 NGR (centre): SE 5450 0283 Settlement: Sprotbrough

Site assessment Known assets/character:

The SMR records one findspot within the site: a Neolithic arrowhead. Two findspots and one monument are recorded within the buffer zone: two Roman coins and the motte of a medieval castle.

There are no Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings within the site. One Scheduled Monument is located at the north end of the buffer, Cusworth Castle medieval motte. The grade II Registered Park of Cusworth Hall is also located within the northern part of the buffer.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project recorded levelled ridge and furrow in the central part of the site. Levelled ridge and furrow and the medieval motte were recorded in the northern part of the buffer.

The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as Agglomerated Fields. This land became agglomerated between 1948 and 1966 after the removal of surveyed field boundaries in the area marked on the 1851 OS as 'Park Closes'. This name probably relates to the landscape parks of Sprotborough, (now built over) to the south, and Cusworth to the north. There is no legibility of the earlier landscape character. Character zones within the buffer are defined as Private Parkland, Agglomerated Fields, Villas/detached Housing, Plantation and Private Housing Estate.

Cartographic/historic land use assessment:

The site comprised three fields within Park Closes at the time of the 1854 OS map. it is not clear if this name to Cusworth Park, Sprotbrough Park or both. A footpath crossed the northern part of the site in 1854. A rectangular greenhouse was shown in the site’s southeast corner on the 1930 OS map. This remained extant in 1956, but had replaced by a smaller building on a different alignment by 1961. 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 Sprotbrough Park, Melton Road, fields, field boundaries, the site of Cusworth motte castle, Long Plantation, parts of Lord’s Flat and Stag Plantation, and the New Lodge. Stag Hill, a gravel pit and sheepfold were shown in 1892, while greenhouses and a well were marked on the 1904 map. Housing developments had commenced in Sprotbrough Park by 1956, with further housing, a nursery and a pond shown in 1961. The A1(M) had been constructed by 1966, with a depot and Albert bridge marked within the buffer on the 1980 OS map.

Survival:

The site has been fields since at least 1854. Arable cultivation may have caused some truncation of below-ground deposits, but below the plough zone, the potential for buried archaeological remains is considered to be moderate.

Further investigations:

Further archaeological investigation is likely to 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 fields, in arable cultivation. Lidar data does not show any potential archaeological features within the site.

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Photograph references:

Google Earth: 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009 and 2015. Bing Maps: 2015.

Statutory Designations Reference ID

Name Designation/ Grade

Site? Buffer?

1000412 Cusworth Hall Registered Park. II Y

1010767 Cusworth Motte Castle SM Y

SMR Record/event Reference ID

Name Details Site? Buffer?

00120/01 Cusworth Castle Mound, Sprotbrough

A castle mound. The motte may have been modified by the landscaping of Cusworth park in the 1760s.

Y

01078/01 Roman Coin, Sprotbrough

Domitian coin from garden of 141 Melton Road. Y

01201/01 Neolithic Arrowhead, Sprotbrough

Neolithic leaf - shaped arrowhead -surface find 1973. Y

02643/01 Roman Coin Find, Sprotbrough

Bronze coin probably of Domitian but very worn. Y

SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference ID

Name Details Site? Buffer?

HSY4270 Former 'Park Closes', Sprotborough, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y Y

HSY4269 Cusworth Park 3, Doncaster Private Parkland Y

HSY4288 Land east of Sprotborough, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y

HSY5102 Park Drive, Sprotbrough, Doncaster Villas/ Detached Housing Y

HSY5106 Albert Plantation, Sprotbrough, Doncaster Plantation Y

HSY5110 Birch Close, Sprotborough, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y

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Allocation Reference: 789 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Land to the East of St Oswald Drive

Area (Ha): 0.75 NGR (centre): SK 6705 9924 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 - 4 SMR record/event - 2 records/2 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence No No Cartographic features of interest No Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a

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Allocation Reference: 789 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Land to the East of St Oswald Drive

Area (Ha): 0.75 NGR (centre): SK 6705 9924 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. One monument is St Oswald’s Church to the southwest of the site, containing substantial Norman elements and seven foliate grave slabs. It is a grade I listed building, and the SMR point appears to be mis-located, with the church shown further to the south. The other monument is an air-raid shelter at Finningley Village School to the southeast of the site. Archaeological evaluation at Manor Farm revealed evidence for the brick dovecote in the northeast of the site and a 19th-century brick lined well.

No Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings are recorded within the site. Four listed buildings are recorded within the buffer: the Church of Holy Trinity and St Oswald is grade I listed, whilst the remaining three, the Village Hall, Holly House and the Old Rectory, are grade II listed. All are located to the south of the site.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project does not record any features within the site or the buffer.

The Historic Landscape Characterisation records the character of the site as playing fields/recreation ground. The area is made up of former piecemeal enclosure with significant legibility of the former field. The area surrounding the site is made up of the vernacular cottages of Finningley Historic Core. The village form, as depicted on historic maps, suggests an unplanned coalescence of farmsteads and cottages around a triangular green at the junction of three roads. Private housing estates lie to the southwest of the site, built in the last 30 years, in addition to an area of religious worship which contains St Oswald’s medieval parish church. On the outskirts of the buffer, to the west lies Doncaster Sheffield Airport, constructed on land that had been part of the former RAF Finningley.

The site is currently shown as a grassed field, surrounded to the west, south and east by housing. A historic farm building is located on the Doncaster Road frontage to the north of the site.

Cartographic/historic land use assessment:

The 1886 OS map depicts the site as one of two piecemeal enclosures. The site remained mainly unchanged, but became progressively surrounded by development, as depicted on the 1962 and 1985 maps.

Within the buffer, the 1886 map depicts the church, the manor house and vernacular buildings forming part of the historic core of Finningley to the east and south of the site. Farm buildings, possibly barns, were located on the Doncaster Road frontage to the north of the site. There were few changes until the 1962 map, when the settlement at Finningley had greatly expanded to the east and northeast of the site, and the airfield was shown to the west of the buffer. Housing had been built to the west of the site by 1985.

Survival:

The site has been in agricultural use from at least the 19th century onwards. This may have caused some truncation to sub-surface deposits, but below the zone impacted by ploughing, the potential for the survival of unrecorded buried archaeology is considered to be moderate. The proximity of the site to the historic core of the village and church suggests there is the potential for medieval remains to survive within the site.

Further investigations:

Further archaeological investigation is likely be required if the site is brought forward for development. This should include an assessment of the impact of development on the setting of the nearby Village Hall.

Significance:

Unknown.

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Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary:

Recent aerial photographs show the site as grassland that may have been used for recreational purposes by the local community since at least 2002. No trace of former ridge and furrow can be seen on Lidar data.

Photograph references:

Google Earth: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008 & 2009. Lidar tile SK6799.

Statutory Designations Reference ID

Name Designation/ Grade

Site? Buffer?

1151558 The Village Hall II Y

1191976 Holly House II Y

1286821 Church of Holy Trinity and St Oswald I Y

1314817 The Old Rectory II Y

SMR Record/event Reference ID

Name Details Site? Buffer?

00462/01 Church of St Oswald, Finningley

Norman nave/ chancel/ west tower, E aisle. 7 Foliate grave slabs in south porch

Y

04370/01 Village School Air Raid Shelter, Finningley

Brick built with un-reinforced concrete roof. Entrances at either end

Y

ESY294 Archaeological Building Survey and Trial Trenches at Manor Farm

The results of the trial trenches revealed evidence for the brick dovecote in the northeast of the site and a 19th century brick lined well. To the immediate west of the existing outbuildings the remains of a stone wall were found, which may be part of a building shown on the 19th century maps, demolished before 1900.

Y

SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference ID

Name Details Site? Buffer?

HSY5961 Open Space near Finningley village centre, Finningley, Doncaster

Playing Fields/ Recreation ground Y Y

HSY4644 Doncaster Sheffield Airport, Finningley, Doncaster

Airport Y

HSY5953 Finningley Historic Core, Finningley, Doncaster Vernacular Cottages Y

HSY5954 St Oswald's Church, Finningley, Doncaster Religious (Worship) Y

HSY5955 Recreation Ground, Finningley, Doncaster Playing Fields/ Recreation ground Y

HSY5956 Lindley Road, Chapel Close, Finningley, Doncaster

Private Housing Estate Y

HSY5960 St Oswald's Close, Finningley, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y

HSY5962 Blenheim Drive, Finningley, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y

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Allocation Reference: 790 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Red Lion, 41 Bank Street, Mexborough

Area (Ha): 0.05 NGR (centre): SK 4761 9977 Settlement: Mexborough

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 - - SMR record/event - 2 records Cropmark/Lidar evidence No No Cartographic features of interest No No Estimated sub-surface disturbance Partial n/a

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Allocation Reference: 790 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Red Lion, 41 Bank Street, Mexborough

Area (Ha): 0.05 NGR (centre): SK 4761 9977 Settlement: Mexborough

Site assessment Known assets/character:

The SMR records no monuments or events within the site. Two monuments are recorded within the buffer, the site of a pottery works to the immediate north of Bank Street and a former National School to the west of the site.

No Scheduled Monuments or Listed Buildings are recorded within the site or buffer.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project records a single 20th-century air raid shelter within the northwest part of the buffer.

Historic Environment Characterisation records the site as part of New Mexborough urban commercial core. It was first urbanised between 1775 and 1852, this area retains much of the original form of its development with small terraced shop units. Most of the buildings were extant by 1891. Further character zones within the buffer include further commercial core elements, late 19th-century terraced housing, modern private and social housing, modern road infrastructure, a shopping centre and church, industrial complexes, a sports ground, and a surviving area of valley floor meadows possibly preserving some of the character of medieval to post-medieval enclosure.

The site is currently the Red Lion public house with a former beer garden and car park to the west, fronting onto Bank Street.

Cartographic/historic land use assessment:

The 1854 OS map shows the Red Lion Inn at the eastern end of the site. The 1892 map showed the pub, by then the Red Lion Hotel, as an L-shaped building with a longer range heading west along the street frontage and a yard to the south, containing a water pump. The majority of the longer range to the north had been demolished by 1948. Between 1958 and 1971, the southern boundary of the site had been established by the creation of a new road system. The pub was still shown, with yard areas to the west.

Within the buffer, the 1854 map shows the area surrounding the site as part of the core of New Mexborough, with buildings to either side of Bank Street and Market Street to the south. The Mexborough Pottery is shown to the north of Bank Street at that date, with the Don Navigation in the southern part of the buffer. The pottery had been demolished by 1892. A picture theatre was shown to the east of the pub by 1930, with extensive athletic grounds and playing fields to the north of Bank Street. A Methodist chapel had been built on the former site of the pottery by 1948. The area to the south of the site was greatly altered between 1958 and 1971 when the A6023 dual carriageway was built across the former route of Market Street and all buildings to the south of the site had been demolished to make way for the road. The cinema was then shown as a club. No substantial further changes had occurred by the time of the 1988 map.

Survival:

With the exception of a narrow range of buildings fronting Bank Street that were demolished in the 1950s, the site has remained relatively the same with only some minor landscaping relating to the current car park evident. Any unrecorded below-ground archaeological features or deposits representative of pre-19th-century activity are likely to have been truncated. The potential for buried remains associated with the demolished range to survive within the site is moderate to high. The standing building within the site is a public house, recorded on the site since at least 1854, and this forms a heritage asset in its own right.

Further investigations:

Further archaeological investigation is likely to be required should the site be brought forward for development. This should include an assessment of the historic character and significance of the Red Lion pub, which was shown on the 1854 map and retains external elements of architectural significance.

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Significance:

The Red Lion public house could be considered to be of Local heritage significance.

Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary:

Twenty-first century aerial photography indicates that the Red Lion Pub was closed after 2002. The western side of the site is a car park and tarmac-surfaced former beer garden. The pub building is two-storeys in height to the front, with a sub-basement level to the rear where the ground is lower than the street frontage. There are two substantial buttresses to the south of the building and a one-and-a-half storey extension to the west. Both buildings are rendered and painted white, obscuring construction details, but original arched, moulded windows and a decorative door architrave survive in the main building at ground floor level, with a string course separating the storeys and moulded rectangular windows on the first floor. The extension has a moulded stone lintel over a blocked doorway. Both buildings have hipped roofs. Within the buffer, the former cinema to the east is a stone-built range with substantial ashlar window lintels and openings, which appears to be potentially older than the public house and does not easily correspond with historic map evidence. Lidar data does not show any archaeological features within the site.

Photograph references:

Google Earth coverage, 2002, 2008 & 2009. Lidar data file SK4799. RAF/CPE/UK/2011 5368 16-Apr-1947.

SMR Record/event Reference ID

Name Details Site? Buffer?

03619/01 Mexborough Rock Pottery Works

Pottery works established by 1839, possibly for earthenware production. The works closed in 1883 and by 1974 the site was occupied by a garage and a chapel.

Y

04395/01 National School, Mexborough

This school, located on Bank Street, was built by public subscription in 1865. It was built at a time when children under 10 years of age were not allowed to be employed for labour; and for children aged 10 to 14 years of age who would attend the school for half of their time - the other half taken up by work. The building itself remains intact though it has been converted slightly for use as a workshop.

Y

SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference ID

Name Details Site? Buffer?

HSY5304 High Street, New Mexborough, Doncaster Commercial Core-Urban Y Y

HSY5187 Docliffe Common (west) Terraced Housing Y

HSY5226 'The Athletic Ground', Mexborough, Doncaster Sports Ground Y

HSY5246 Westview, Mexborough, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y

HSY5247 Milton Road, Mexborough, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY5249 Cross Gate, Mexborough, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y

HSY5255 Adwick Road to Harlington Road, Mexborough, Doncaster

Commercial Core-Urban Y

HSY5256 Adwick Court, Mexborough, Doncaster Villas/ Detached Housing Y

HSY5267 Mexborough Dual Carriageway (eastern section), Doncaster

Ring Road / Bypass Y

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HSY5269 Mexborough Bypass (western section), Doncaster

Ring Road / Bypass Y

HSY5274 Industrial area north of Don Navigation, Mexborough, Doncaster

Other Industry Y

HSY5279 Coltran and environs, Mexborough, Doncaster Metal Trades (Light) Y

HSY5281 Warmex Buildings (site of Manor House), Church Street, Mexborough, Doncaster

Other Industry Y

HSY5287 North side of Church Street, Mexborough, Doncaster

Villas/ Detached Housing Y

HSY5302 Bank Street Methodist Church on site of 'Mexborough Rock Pottery', Doncaster

Religious (Worship) Y

HSY5303 Bank Street, Mexborough, Doncaster Commercial Core-Urban Y

HSY5307 Shopping centre, High Street, Mexborough Shopping Centre Y

HSY5378 Land north of Denaby Old Village, Doncaster Valley Floor Meadows Y

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Allocation Reference: 791 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Bentley House, Jossey Lane, Scawthorpe

Area (Ha): 2.28 NGR (centre): SE 5598 0593 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/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: 791 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Bentley House, Jossey Lane, Scawthorpe

Area (Ha): 2.28 NGR (centre): SE 5598 0593 Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area

Site assessment Known assets/character:

The SMR does not record any monuments or events within the site. One monument, one findspot and two events are recorded within the buffer. The monument is a large, double-ditched enclosure containing a possible hut and another rounded enclosure with two possible hut sites, located to the southwest of the site and probably of Iron Age to Roman date, whilst the findspot is of a Roman coin found in a garden to the west of the site. A watching brief off Jossey Lane at the northwest edge of the buffer did not record any archaeological features, and trial trenching at the Bentley Works, south of the site, revealed that prior disturbance had removed any traces of possible Iron Age to Roman features thought likely to have continued into the site.

No Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings are recorded within the site or buffer zone.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project did not record any features within the site. Within the buffer, the Iron Age to Roman rectangular enclosure and huts were recorded to the southwest, and further ditches associated with a trackway and field boundaries of similar date were recorded to the south, in an area since built on. In the north of the buffer, earthwork and cropmark ridge and furrow has been recorded.

Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and the southeast part of the buffer as an industrial depot of later 20th-century date. Further character zones within the buffer include a playing field and private, semi-detached and social housing estates to the east, south and west, and agglomerated fields to the north.

The site currently comprises vacant land, cleared of buildings. The northern boundary is formed by Jossey Lane, and the western boundary by a disused railway line.

Cartographic/historic land use assessment:

The 1854 OS map shows the site as part of an area of irregular fields to the south of Bruslingholme Lane. A drain ran along the western side of the site, labelled the Swaith Dike in 1930. By 1971, a square building was shown within the site, labelled 'depot', with a smaller building to the south and a new road network within the site. There were no substantial changes by 1992.

Within the buffer, the 1854 map showed the GNER railway line running on a northwest to southeast alignment to the east of the site, and a pond to the north of Bruslingholme Lane. Settlement at Bentley and Little London was located just outside the southeast edge of the buffer. By 1893, the pond was shown as silted up. The 1930 map depicted a new railway line running to the immediate west of the site and forming the site boundary, the LNER Gowdall and Braithwell branch. A possible station or warehouse was shown to the east of the older railway line, now the LNER, and some housing had encroached into the eastern part of the buffer. By 1959, works buildings were shown to the southeast of the site, west and east of the LNER, and housing was shown to the west of the Gowdall and Braithwell branch line. The pond to the north of the site was shown as a fish pond, and Bruslingholme Lane had been renamed Jossey Lane. Housing had been built to the south of the site by 1978.

Survival:

Part of the site has been built on in the later 20th century, with the remainder having been concrete or tarmac surfaced and used for storage and parking. This suggests that, other than below the building footprint, there is a moderate potential for the preservation of buried archaeology within the site. Iron Age to Roman cropmarks have been recorded nearby, and a Roman coin was found to the west, and similar remains could continue into the site.

Further investigations:

Further archaeological investigations may be required if the site is brought forward for development.

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Significance:

Unknown. Remains of Iron Age to Roman activity could be of Local to Regional significance depending on their extent, nature and condition.

Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary:

The 2002-2009 aerial photographs showed the site as occupied by the square building shown in 1971, set within a hedged boundary, with the remainder of the area used for storage of industrial materials and for parking. By 2015, the site had been cleared of buildings was shown as vacant land. Lidar data does not show any features of archaeological interest within the site.

Photograph references:

Google Earth coverage 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009 & 2015. Lidar data files SE5505, SE5506, SE5605 & SE5606 DTM 1m.

RAF/CPE/UK/1879 1103 06-Dec-1946; ULM DW10 13-JUL-1949; MAL/60427 81661 21-Jun-1960; SE5505/5 NMR 12751/12 11-Aug-1995.

SMR Record/event Reference ID

Name Details Site? Buffer?

00064/01 Iron Age or Romano-British Sub-rectangular Enclosure

A large double-ditched rectangular enclosure within which appear a smaller rectangular enclosure containing a circle (? Large hut). Also a large rounded enclosure with round annexe and at centre two circles (one larger than the other). Other ditches in vicinity. Gravel subsoil. Site now partly built over.

Y

01073/01 Roman Coin, Scawthorpe

AR denarius of Caracalla AD 199-200 from 33 Clevedon Crescent, Scawthorpe.

Y

ESY495 Watching Brief on Land off Jossey Lane, Scawthorpe

In 1992 a watching brief was undertaken on land off Jossey Lane. No archaeological features were revealed.

Y

ESY1418 Trial trenching at the Bentley Works, Pipering Lane, Bentley

Three trenches placed to evaluate whether cropmarks extended into an area prior to redevelopment. No significant archaeological remains were encountered. This was likely due to the prior use as agricultural land and disturbance associated with the construction of the current industrial buildings on the site.

Y

SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference ID

Name Details Site? Buffer?

HSY4963 Depot, Bentley Crossing, Doncaster Other Industry Y Y

HSY4299 Land South east of Adwick le Street, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y

HSY4944 Housing to the east of Amersall Road, Scawthorpe, Doncaster

Semi-Detached Housing Y

HSY4962 Appleton Way, Bentley, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y

HSY4965 Langthwaite Lane, Radcliffe Lane and Moat Crescent, Bentley, Doncaster

Private Housing Estate Y

HSY5029 Park Road, Bentley, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

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HSY5030 Westerngales Way, Bentley, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y

HSY5153 Playing Field, Langdale Drive, Doncaster Playing Fields/ Recreation ground Y

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Allocation Reference: 792 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Land to the Rear of Eden Grove Road

Area (Ha): 0.27 NGR (centre): SE 6204 0664 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 - 1 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: 792 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Land to the Rear of Eden Grove Road

Area (Ha): 0.27 NGR (centre): SE 6204 0664 Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area

Site assessment Known assets/character:

The SMR does not record any events or monuments within the site. Within the buffer zone, there is one monument to the south of the site, the grade II listed Edenthorpe Manor House. There is also one event recorded within the buffer zone, to the north of the site, relating to excavated features demonstrating a complex sequence of ditch cutting episodes, with some associated pottery. No date is recorded for these features or artefacts.

There are no Scheduled Monuments within the site or the buffer zone. There is one listed building within the buffer zone, the above mentioned grade II listed Edenthorpe Manor House, originally constructed in 1606.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project records fragmentary Iron Age/Roman field boundaries within the northern end of the buffer zone. These are part of a cohesive pattern of brickwork-pattern field systems, which spread further to the east, forming part of a wider landscape of such features.

The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as part of a modern planned estate of social housing. The road plan of the estate is shown as laid out by 1930 although it is possible that the estate was not completed until after WWII, as the estate is only partly built at this time and shown as a sketched amendment on the 1949 six inch OS. The estate was laid out in the former parkland of Streetthorpe/Edenthorpe Hall, although legibility of this former landscape is invisible. The buffer zone also comprises a mix of modern private and social housing, supermarkets and schools.

The site currently comprises a triangular parcel of wasteland surrounded by modern houses, situated in the suburban core of Edenthorpe.

Cartographic/historic land use assessment:

On the 1854 OS map the site is located within the ground of Streetthorpe Hall, located to the west of the main structure of the hall in an area of trees. The current site boundaries are not present at this time. By 1892 the name of the hall had been altered to Edenthorpe Hall. The site remained unchanged until 1930, by which time houses had been constructed along Thorne Road, and the associated back gardens formed the north-western boundary of the site. By 1948 the south-western site boundary had been established, with the construction of The Crescent and associated housing. By 1962, Eden Grove Road had been constructed, creating the eastern site boundary, and forming the shape of the site as it remains today. At this time, six small structures are depicted within the centre of the site, which is labelled as a Builder’s Yard. By 1983 the largest of these structures had been removed, as had one of the smaller ones, leaving a collection of four small structures within the site at the southern end. By 1992, only one building survives on the map, at the southern site boundary.

Within the buffer zone, in 1854 the area immediately surrounding the site is part of Streetthorpe Hall, with the main structure of the hall located to the east of the site. The Manor House (1606) is located to the south-east of the site. Outside of the grounds of Streetthorpe Hall, the majority of the area comprised fields, and very little development was present; there is no evidence of the current settlement of Edenthorpe. By 1892, Streetthorpe Hall had changed its name to Edenthorpe Hall. The Manor House had a gasometer associated with it, to the east of the house. By 1930 Edenthorpe Hall appears to have been split into two separate structures, the southern one still named Edenthorpe Hall, the northern one Edenthorpe House. Development had occurred to the north and west of the site by this time, with dwellings on Thorne Road, Conigsbro Road and Rowena Avenue. Further houses had been constructed to the south of the site by 1948, and again to the north-east by 1946. By 1962 the majority of the buffer zone was heavily developed and Edenthorpe Hall had become Edenthorpe County Primary School. Edenthorpe House still existed to the north of the school, although by 1982 it appears to have been demolished.

Survival:

Although historic maps suggest that some buildings have existed on the site from 1962, the majority of the site

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has remained undeveloped, and as such, the potential for the survival of below-ground heritage assets on the site is considered to be moderate.

Further investigations:

Further archaeological investigations may be required if the site is brought forward for development.

Significance:

Unknown.

Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary:

Twenty-first century aerial photographs show the site the be wasteland, with moderate tree cover. It is possible that one of the buildings first shown on the 1962 map is still present along the south-western boundary of the site, although this cannot be fully determined due to heavy tree cover. No heritage assets were identified within the available Lidar data for the site.

Photograph references:

Google Earth Images 2002, 2003, 2008 & 2009. 6206/12 NMR 719/022 02-Jul-1974

Statutory Designations Reference ID

Name Designation/ Grade

Site? Buffer?

1151557 Manor House II Y

SMR Record/event Reference ID

Name Details Site? Buffer?

04940 Edenthorpe Manor House

The date stone states 1606, although architecturally the house is late 17th century. The grounds and ancillary buildings shown on in 1854 are now under 20th century housing.

Y

ESY38 Evaluations at Edenthorpe

Excavated features demonstrated a complex sequence of ditch cutting episodes, and also produced pottery.

Y

SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference ID

Name Details Site? Buffer?

HSY4765 Thorne Road Edenthorpe (south east side), Doncaster

Villas/ Detached Housing Y

HSY4767 Edenthorpe Hall School, Edenthorpe, Doncaster

School Y

HSY4770 Edenthorpe earlier housing, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y Y

HSY4773 Mid twentieth century estate housing, Kirk Sandall, Doncaster

Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY4781 Brecks Field Housing developments, Kirk Sandall, Doncaster

Private Housing Estate Y

HSY5698 Superstore, Edenthorpe, Doncaster Commercial Core-Suburban Y

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Allocation Reference: 794 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Land at Former Industrial Estate, Stainforth

Area (Ha): 4.141 NGR (centre): SE 64425 12187 Settlement: Hatfield Stainforth

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 - 4 records/2 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: 794 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Land at Former Industrial Estate, Stainforth

Area (Ha): 4.141 NGR (centre): SE 64425 12187 Settlement: Hatfield Stainforth

Site assessment Known assets/character:

The SMR does not record any findspots, monuments or events within the site. Four monuments and two events are recorded in the buffer zone. The monuments include the site of the medieval Stainforth Chapel and a 17th-century timber-framed building. The other two monuments derive from the two events, a sedimentology survey identifying alluvial sediment sequences to the northeast of the site, and Iron Age to Roman settlement and field system remains to the east.

No Scheduled Monuments are recorded within the site or the buffer zone. Four Grade II listed buildings are recorded within the buffer zone: Townend Farm; Stainforth Bridge; Lock Cottages; and a timber-framed building.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project did not record any features within the site. Ridge and furrow remains have been recorded at the edges of the buffer zone.

The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as Agglomerated Fields. These are large arable production units, produced by the removal of irregular and sinuous boundaries from an area which appears to have been enclosed piecemeal from a former open field in advance of 1825. There is fragmentary legibility of earlier enclosure. Character zones within the buffer include Modern Agglomerated fields; Modern Valley Floor Meadows; Modern Planned Estate (Social Housing); Industrial to Modern Villas/ Detached Housing; Modern Semi-Detached Housing; and Modern Villas/ Detached Housing.

Cartographic/historic land use assessment:

No features were shown within the site on Josias Aurelebout’s 1639 map of Hatfield Chase or Thomas Jefferys’ 1771 map of Yorkshire. The site was open land in 1854 but the east and west plot boundaries had been established by 1892. No changes were shown within the site on subsequent Ordnance Survey maps, until the construction of a poultry packing station in the eastern part of the site by 1984.

Within the buffer zone, Stainforth Bridge, Stainforth village and Plumtree Hill Road were shown on the 1771 Jefferys’ map. The Stainforth and Keadby Canal was opened at the north of the site in 1802. The canal was shown on the 1841 OS map, along with the drain along the site’s southern boundary. Various features were marked within the buffer zone on the 1854 OS map including Stainforth Bridge; the Stainforth and Keadby Canal; a Corporation Yard; West Hall; Water Lane; Field Lane; various houses, gardens and fields. An ‘old lock house’ was marked in 1854, with a towing path shown along the site’s northern boundary on the 1893 OS map. The later also marked the New Inn; the Black Swan Inn; a swing bridge; South Bank; Fleets; a Methodist Chapel; Central House; St. Matthew’s Church; and a Sunday School. Market Place and a housing estate had been built within the buffer by the time of the 1932 OS map. A church hall, a ‘Gospel Hall’, various clubs, a police station and further housing were shown in 1962.

Survival:

Given the lack of deep ground disturbance in the western part of the site, the potential for the survival of unrecorded buried archaeological remains in this area is considered to be moderate. The construction of the poultry packing station in the eastern part of the site may have impacted on any archaeological remains within its footprint. The archaeological potential in this part of the site is therefore considered to be low to moderate. Iron Age to Roman settlement and agricultural remains have been recorded within the buffer.

Further investigations:

Further archaeological investigation is likely to 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 western part of the site as rough grassland. The poultry packing plant remained extant in 2002, but had largely been cleared by 2008. This part of the site was shown as hardstanding with encroaching scrub in 2015. There is no Lidar coverage for this site.

Photograph references:

Google Earth: 2002, 2008, 2009, 2015. Bing Maps: 2015.

Statutory Designations Reference ID

Name Designation/ Grade

Site? Buffer?

1151599 Town End Farmhouse Grade II Y

1192855 Stainforth Bridge Grade II Y

1286416 Lock Cottages Grade II Y

1314797 Timber Framed Building Grade II Y

SMR Record/event Reference ID

Name Details Site? Buffer?

00490/01 Site of medieval Stainford Chapel, Stainforth

" Newly builded" in 1355. Disused after reformation. New chapel built late 17th century, again in 1819. Present church 19th century but "near to a medieval site".

Y

01530/01 Timber Framed Building, Stainforth Market Place

? 17th century timber framed building. Y

4973 Holocene Sediment Sequences, Fishlake

Alluvial floodplain sediments recorded from an environmental study of this area.

Y

05653 Romano-British settlement and field system, north-east of Stainforth

Geophysical surveys identified evidence for enclosures, field boundaries and discrete features across a wide area on either side of a large colliery spoil heap, which is likely to overlie further remains. Trial trenching to the west of the spoil heap recorded settlement features, field boundaries, post-holes, gullies and pits, along with associated pottery indicating a 2nd-3rd century date for the main phase of activity. A few sherds of Iron Age pottery suggest an earlier origin, though the nature of this earlier phase is yet to be established.

Y

ESY762 Auger Survey and Feasibility Study for OSL dating of alluvial sediments

An auger survey and scientific dating of a sediment sequence was conducted in 2009, with 13 hand auger cores taken and the results used to select two locations for mechanical coring. OSL dating was conducted on one of the cores and radiocarbon dating on the other. The aim of the project was to characterise the sequence and patterns of accumulation of sediment in the study area, in order to identify any potential land surfaces/buried soils, and locate the nature and extent of any waterlogged organic deposits.

Y

ESY1474 Evaluations on land north-east of Stainforth, South Yorkshire.

Evaluations undertaken in stages from 2008-2015 included a sedimentological investigation to characterise the depositional sequence across the site. No stratified archaeological deposits were identified, and the palaoenvironmental potential of the samples was considered to be low. Two geophysical surveys identified extensive remains of settlement and agricultural

Y

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features, probably of Romano-British date. Evaluation trenching recorded Romano-British features including possible boundary ditches, gullies, pits and post-holes and associated pottery.

SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference ID

Name Details Site? Buffer?

HSY4455 'Ash Fields', Stainforth, Doncaster Modern Agglomerated fields Y Y

HSY4452 River Don between Fishlake and Stainforth, Doncaster

Modern Valley Floor Meadows Y

HSY4785 Stainforth model village, Doncaster Modern Planned Estate (Social Housing)

Y

HSY4790 Thorne Road, Stainforth, Doncaster Modern Planned Estate (Social Housing)

Y

HSY4869 East Bank, Stainforth, Doncaster Industrial to Modern Villas/ Detached Housing

Y

HSY4871 Historic Core, Stainforth, Doncaster Modern Semi-Detached Housing Y

HSY4887 East Lane Stainforth, Doncaster Modern Semi-Detached Housing Y

HSY4888 Infill development east of Back Lane, Stainforth, Doncaster

Modern Villas/ Detached Housing Y

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Allocation Reference: 795 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Land on the East Side of South End, Thorne

Area (Ha): 0.48 NGR (Centre) SE 6915 1243 Settlement: Thorne Moorends

Allocation Recommendations

Archaeological significance of site Unknown

Historic landscape significance Negligible

Suitability of site for allocation Uncertain archaeological constraint

Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event - - Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest No Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Partial/low n/a

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Allocation Reference: 795 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Land on the East Side of South End, Thorne

Area (Ha): 0.48 NGR (Centre) SE 6915 1243 Settlement: Thorne Moorends

Site assessment Known assets/character:

The SMR does not record any monuments, findspots or events within the site or buffer zone.

No Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings are recorded within the site or the buffer zone.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project recorded post-medieval ridge and furrow within the buffer zone, to the west of the site.

The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as Modern Planned Estate (Social Housing). The site was enclosed by the Parliamentary Act of 1825, although the current South Thorne Estate was built with little reference to the historic plan form of the area, hence legibility of the earlier landscape forms is essentially invisible.

The character of the buffer zone is much the same as that of the site itself, forming modern private and social housing. The recent modern development has removed all trace of former landscape character types within the buffer zone.

The site is located immediately to the north of the South Yorkshire Railway line, which opened in 1859. Thorne South Station opened in 1864.

Cartographic/historic land use assessment:

The site is shown as part of field on the 1854 OS map. By 1892 a field boundary had been added to the field, which serves as part of the current northern site boundary. Within the site itself, at the western end, several trees were present. By 1906 a roughly north-south aligned field boundary had been added within the site. By 1962 this field boundary has been removed and a small building had been at the northern end of the site which had been removed by 1970. By 1962 Southfield Close had also been constructed, with associated housing situated at the very eastern end of the site. Four buildings had been constructed within the north area of the site by 1976; the purpose of these building remains unclear, although recent Google Earth images show them to be corrugated metal buildings. By 1989, further similar buildings had been added to the south of these. In 2002, Google Earth Images show these buildings to all be derelict and in a poor state of repair; by 2008, all but the southern-most building had been removed.

Within the buffer zone, to the south of the site, the Stainforth and Keadby Canal was opened in 1802. By 1892, a sand pit was present immediately to the north of the site. Also at that date a single railway track led site from the main South Yorkshire Railway line and terminated at a weighing machine, situated to the south-east of the site. By 1932, a crane also stood in this area. These features remained extant in 1962 but had gone by 1976. Miller Lane led to Oldfield’s Mill, a corn mill to the north of the site, in 1854 but the mill itself was no longer shown by 1892. A public house stood on the site of the present-day Victoria by 1854. Extensive housing had been constructed to the north 1962.

Survival:

A few structures are known to have been present on the site since the first edition OS map, although these are small and generally the form of sheds, and their foundation depth is unknown. The potential for the survival of any previously unrecorded buried archaeology is considered to be moderate to low.

Further investigations:

Further archaeological investigation may be required if this site is brought forward for development.

Significance:

Unknown.

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Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: Twenty-first century aerial photographs show the site as an area of rough grassland or scrub. There is no Lidar coverage for this area.

Photograph references:

Google Earth coverage, 2002, 2008 & 2009.

RAF/541/31 3425 18-May-1948.

SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference ID

Name Details Site? Buffer?

HSY4678 Thorne South Field Estate, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y Y

HSY4440 Hatfield Chase - High and Low Levels, Doncaster

Drained Wetland Y

HSY4676 Ash Tree, Elm Tree and Chestnut Avenues, Thorne, Doncaster

Semi-Detached Housing Y

HSY4677 South Common Estate, Thorne, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY5619 Southfield Road, Thorne, Doncaster Villas/ Detached Housing Y

HSY5633 South End, Thorne, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y

HSY5634 Marina, South End, Thorne, Doncaster Canal or River Wharf Y

HSY5636 South End, Thorne, Doncaster Vernacular Cottages Y

HSY5637 West Street / Park Crescent infill, Thorne, Doncaster

Private Housing Estate Y

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Allocation Reference: 796 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Land at Former Colliery, Campsall Rd

Area (Ha): 8.01 NGR (centre): SE 5568 1369 Settlement: Askern

Allocation Recommendations

Archaeological significance of site Local/Negligible

Historic landscape significance Negligible

Suitability of site for allocation No/Uncertain archaeological constraint

Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event - 1 record/1 event Cropmark/Lidar evidence Yes Yes Cartographic features of interest Yes Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Extensive n/a

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Allocation Reference: 796 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Land at Former Colliery, Campsall Rd

Area (Ha): 8.01 NGR (centre): SE 5568 1369 Settlement: Askern

Site assessment Known assets/character:

The SMR does not record any monuments or events within the site. One findspot and one event are recorded within the buffer. The findspot relates to a quern and part of a wooden shield, of unknown date, found in Askern Brickfield in 1931, whilst the event was a trial trench evaluation near Market Place, Askern, where no archaeological remains were revealed.

No Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings are located within the site or buffer.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project recorded the extent of the Askern Main Colliery and infrastructure within the site and the eastern half of the buffer. Small quarries were recorded to the northwest of the site, and an extensive brick and tile works extended into the northern side of the buffer. Ridge and furrow remains were recorded as cropmarks to the east of the site.

Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of most of the site and much of the buffer as the former site of Askern Main Colliery, a deep shaft mine sunk in 1911 and demolished by 2002. An area at the southwest tip of the site and in the western and southern sides of the buffer is characterised as planned social housing, part of the colliery village associated with Askern Main and dating from the first half of the 20th century. Further character zones within the buffer include agglomerated fields to the northwest of the site, where boundary removal in the 20th century has led to a loss of the former pattern of strip fields enclosed from open field; the historic core of Askern and St Peter's Church to the east; and drained wetland enclosed from Norton Common and a modern plantation to the northeast.

The site is currently an irregularly-shaped area of rough grass and scrub within and around the former colliery site. It is bounded to the north by Campsall Road.

Cartographic/historic land use assessment:

The 1854 OS map depicted the site as part of an area of fields to the south of Campsall Road. Most of the fields had curving boundaries indicative of enclosure from open field, in an area called Askern Field, though an area at the northern end of the site had smaller, more rectangular fields. Askern Field Plantation crossed the southern part of the site, whilst the small detached portion at the northeast side of the site fronted onto Campsall Road and appears to have contained buildings, possibly a house on the street front and outbuildings behind. The 1893 map showed a large house called The Poplars set back from the street frontage with smaller houses to the east and gardens behind. By 1932, the northern half of the site was covered with the pit head buildings of Askern Main Colliery, with two shafts marked, as well as engine houses and ancillary structures. The complex was linked by railways to siding to the east of the site. The southern part of the site remained fields at that date. In the northeast part of the site, the Poplars had been demolished but the street-front buildings survived. A works building was shown at the eastern edge of the southern part of the site by 1948, extended to two buildings by 1956. The southwest tip of the site was still part of a field in 1961, and works buildings had been built at the eastern side of this area by 1977, with allotment gardens along the southern end. The houses in the detached northeast portion of the site were still shown in 1990.

Within the buffer, the northern edge of the settlement at Askern was located to the northeast of the site in 1854, and the main part of the village at the eastern edge of the buffer. A limestone quarry was shown to the east of Campsall Lane just north of the village, with a waggonway connecting it to the Yorkshire and Lancashire Railway at the northeast edge of the buffer. Campsall Park Plantation was within the northwest edge of the buffer, and Chapel Lane ran through the southeast edge. The remaining area was mainly strip enclosures within Askern Field. By 1893, several houses and villas were shown to the north of Campsall Lane, and Askern Quarry was shown as rough pasture. A gas works was shown in the northern part of the buffer, and St Peter's Church had been built to the east of High Street. By 1932, Hilton Street had been built to the south of the northeast portion of the site, with new housing along it. The colliery sidings extended to the south, where spoil was tipped to the west of the lines. Another large spoil heap was located to the north of Campsall Road. Housing associated with the colliery

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village had been built at the southern edge of the buffer, and a coalite works was shown to the south of the colliery. Housing had extended up to the southern and western edges of the southwest tip of the site by 1961. No major changes were shown within the buffer by 1990.

Survival:

The majority of the site was occupied by colliery and works buildings in the 20th century, and all of the site, with the exception of the detached northeast portion, was stripped of topsoil and landscaped as part of the reclamation of the colliery following its demolition. The buildings and landscaping are likely to have removed or disturbed any sub-surface deposits within the site, and the potential for the survival of unrecorded archaeological remains is considered to be negligible. The northeast portion of the site has the potential to contain the remains of footings of the 19th-century buildings shown on historic mapping.

Further investigations:

With the exception of the small detached portion at the northeast edge of the site, further archaeological investigations are unlikely to be required if the site is brought forward for development.

Significance:

Remains associated with the 19th-century buildings in the detached northeast portion of the site are likely to be of Local archaeological significance. The significance of buried remains within the remainder of the site is negligible.

Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary:

The 2002 aerial photograph showed the entire site stripped of topsoil. The colliery buildings in the northern part had been demolished and all the railway infrastructure removed, and the area was undergoing reclamation. The works buildings along the eastern side of the southern part of the site had also been demolished and the site stripped, as well as the area shown as allotments in 1990. The buildings in the detached northeast portion of the site had been demolished by that date, and the site was shown as grassed. By 2008, the colliery site had been landscaped, with a network of roads shown within it and possible playing fields. Two small square enclosures just outside the northern part of the site are likely to be the capped shafts. Most of the site was covered in rough grassland by that date. No further changes were shown by 2015. No Lidar coverage is available for this site.

Photograph references:

Google Earth coverage 2002, 2008, 2009 & 2015.

RAF/CPE/UK/1880 4075 06-Dec-1946; OS/73311 0045 15-Jun-1973; MAL/82012 0166 29-May-1982; SE5513/2 CCX 14249/6 16-Sep-1992.

SMR Record/event Reference ID

Name Details Site? Buffer?

04296/01 Quern and Shield Finds of Unknown Date, Askern Brickfield

The top stone of a quern and a fragment of wooden shield both of unknown date found in Askern brickfield in 1931.

Y

ESY499 Archaeological Evaluation on land off Market Place

In January 2006 a programme of trial trenching was undertaken on land near Market Place. No archaeological remains were revealed.

Y

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SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference ID

Name Details Site? Buffer?

HSY331 Askern Main Colliery site Deep Shaft Coal Mine Y Y

HSY367 Marian Crescent, Instoneville Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y Y

HSY330 Norton Common Drained Wetland Y

HSY351 Former open fields between Sutton village and Campsall

Agglomerated fields Y

HSY354 Askern Town Centre Commercial Core-Urban Y

HSY355 St Peter's Church and vicarage, Askern Religious (Worship) Y

HSY357 Terraced Housing Instonville, Askern Terraced Housing Y

HSY358 Early social housing in Instonville, Askern Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY5670 Plantation north of Askern, Doncaster Plantation Y

HSY5699 Park Plantation, Campsall, Doncaster Plantation Y

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Allocation Reference: 797 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Land at Former Belle Vue Football Ground

Area (Ha): 3.38 NGR (centre): SE 5950 0263 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 - - SMR record/event 1 event 3 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: 797 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Land at Former Belle Vue Football Ground

Area (Ha): 3.38 NGR (centre): SE 5950 0263 Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area

Site assessment Known assets/character:

The SMR records one event within the northern edge of the site, extending eastwards into the buffer. This was a watching brief on a new bus corridor along 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. Though not recorded within the search area, the buffer included the northern edge of Doncaster Airfield, which 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. Two further events were recorded within the buffer, a watching brief on a trench at the Dome roundabout, for which no results are recorded, and evaluation at the site of the proposed racecourse hotel, where only recent remains associated with the racecourse were revealed.

No Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings are recorded within the site or buffer zone.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project recorded the extent of the Doncaster Airfield in 1955 as covering the site and the southern and eastern parts of the buffer. It seems unlikely that the airfield extended into the site, as the football ground was already extant when the airfield was created, so this may be a mistake in the digitising. Later mapping shows airfield infrastructure to the immediate southeast of the site. Possible Iron Age to Roman enclosures were recorded at the southeast edge of the buffer and probable field boundaries of a similar date at the northern edge.

Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as the Belle Vue football ground, formerly occupied by Doncaster Rovers from 1922 until 2006. There is no legibility of the former landscape character of semi-regular enclosures probably enclosed through drainage of wetland in the 17th century, and the football ground has been demolished since the HEC was completed. Further character zones within the buffer include Doncaster Racecourse to the north, a modern leisure centre to the south and southeast, a social housing estate to the west and a school to the southwest.

The site is currently cleared ground, with some regenerated rough grass. It is bounded by Belle Vue Way to the north, the leisure centre to the east and housing to the southwest.

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. The 1854 OS map showed the site as part of a large field, within an area known as Low Pastures. The southwest boundary of the site follows the line of the field boundary shown at that date. Doncaster Rovers’ Belle Vue football stadium was constructed within the site in 1922 and was shown on the 1930 OS map. Little change had occurred within the site by the time of the 1993 OS map. Belle Vue was demolished in 2007.

Within the buffer zone, Carr House, Bawtry Road and Doncaster race course were shown on Jefferys’ 1771 map, with Leger Way and Bell Vue house marked on the 1817 Greenwood map and a ‘Deaf and Dumb Institution’ on the 1841 OS map. The northwest course of the Roman road from Templeborough to Doncaster was identified on the 1854 OS map, with its course through the southeast of the buffer zone marked as a ‘foot road’ at that date. The latter section of the route was identified as part of the Roman road on the 1892 map. The 1854 map showed the 'Neatherd's House' towards the eastern edge of the buffer. A pump and a small disused gravel pit were shown to the west of the site in 1892, while a paddock was marked at the Bawtry Road/Leger Way junction in 1903. Houses had been constructed to the west part of the site by 1930, when a large area of excavation, possibly a quarry, was shown to the south of the site. Warehouses stood to the south of the site by 1938, with works to the southwest and a football pitch to the southeast in 1961. The latter had been removed by 1984. A school, a tip and part of Doncaster Airfield were marked within the buffer zone at that date. The Asda store and Doncaster Dome had been constructed to the east of the site by 1993.

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Survival:

The construction of the football ground, particularly the stands, is likely to have caused substantial sub-surface disturbance. Any drainage and under-pitch heating features may also have disturbed deposits within the area of the pitch, though it is unknown how extensive this is likely to be. The car park area to the north is likely to be relatively undisturbed, and nearby evaluations recorded some archaeological features, mainly dating to the late 19th and 20th centuries, though a small assemblage of medieval pottery was recovered. In general, the potential for the survival of unrecorded buried archaeology within the site is considered to be low to moderate.

Further investigations:

Further archaeological investigations may be required if the site is brought forward for development.

Significance:

Remains associated with late 19th- to 20th-century activity are likely to be of Local archaeological significance.

Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary:

Twenty-first century aerial photographs show the site occupied by Belle Vue stadium in 2002, with a car park and an open plot of hardstanding to the north and an embankment covered with scrub and trees to the south. By 2008, the majority of the stadium had been demolished, although the footings of the stands were visible and the former pitch was an area of rough grass and scrub. The stand footings were no longer visible in 2015, when the whole of this area was shown as either cleared ground or rough grass, with image quality being poor.

Lidar data shows the area of the former stadium as earthen banks around the sides, with the level pitch visible in the centre. No other features are shown within the site. The Lidar may pre-date the 2015 aerial photograph, which showed the site as cleared, though the poor image quality of this aerial view means that it is difficult to be certain about the presence of any earthwork features.

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; ULM (ZKnEV157) 10-AUG-1995.

SMR Record/event Reference ID

Name Details Site? Buffer?

ESY1055 Dome Roundabout A6328 Bawtry Road

Excavation of trench for construction of kerb line Y

ESY900 Archaeological Watching Brief at Bawtry Road Quality Control Bus Corridor, Doncaster, South Yorkshire

A limited number of archaeological features recorded to the west comprised a large dumping pit and several ceramic land drains of late 19th-/ early 20th century date. To the east of Area C, an old tarmac road surface was encountered and may relate to access to the air field which formerly occupied the site of the leisure complex. A series of dumping pits were also 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 produced no datable evidence.

Y Y

ESY901 Archaeological Evaluation and Building Recording, Proposed site of Doncaster

No archaeological features or deposits were present on the site, with the only features encountered being of modern date and associated with the racecourse. The lack of subsoil in the area could suggest that it was extensively levelled and

Y

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Racecourse Hotel, South Yorkshire

landscaped.

SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference ID

Name Details Site? Buffer?

HSY5273 Belle Vue Ground, Bawtry Road, Doncaster Sports Ground Y Y

HSY5116 Doncaster Racecourse, Doncaster Racecourse Y

HSY5241 The Dome, Doncaster Leisure Centre Y

HSY5266 St. Peter's primary school, Sandy Lane, Doncaster

School Y

HSY5283 Lime Tree Avenue, Hyde Park, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

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Allocation Reference: 798 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Land SE of Lakeside Boulevard (Winscar Rd)

Area (Ha): 1.33 NGR (centre): SE 5966 0141 Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area

Allocation Recommendations

Archaeological significance of site Negligible

Historic landscape significance Negligible

Suitability of site for allocation No archaeological constraint

Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event - 1 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence Yes Yes Cartographic features of interest No No Estimated sub-surface disturbance Extensive n/a

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Allocation Reference: 798 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Land SE of Lakeside Boulevard (Winscar Rd)

Area (Ha): 1.33 NGR (centre): SE 5966 0141 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; a geophysical survey which covered two separate areas to the north and south of the site. Although cropmark features have been recorded within these areas no archaeological features were identified at either location in the geophysical survey.

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 a curved ditch of probable Iron Age to Roman date in the western area of the site, and further enclosures and field boundaries extending into the southern area of the buffer zone. A rectilinear enclosure is also recorded at the northern end 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 been recorded in the southern part of the buffer zone.

Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the western half of the site 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. The eastern end of the site is part of a private housing estate, constructed in the late 1990s. Prior to the construction of the housing estate and the lake, the site was occupied by fields with regular edges indicative of parliamentary enclosure, and 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 business park and educational sites.

One area of Historic Landfill exists within the south-western half of the site and extends throughout the north-western and south-eastern areas of the buffer zone, named Sandy Lane and recorded from 1960-1971, though the site was part of an airfield at that date. No further information is given for this record.

The site is currently located to the immediate west of a modern housing estate, with an artificial lake to the west.

Cartographic/historic land use assessment:

In 1854 the site was part of a group of regularly-shaped fields, with many of the boundaries 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 had been removed, particularly to the north of the site, 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, 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. During the war the airport, which had a grass runway, housed a Ministry of Aircraft Production factory where Westland Lysander reconnaissance planes were built. 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. Childer’s Drain was aligned approximately north-south, to the west of the site. Short Lane was to the south of the site, with Hennings Lane to the east. The Great Northern Railway was already extant to the south of the site, aligned approximately east-west. By 1893 some field boundaries had been removed. 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, to the south of the site. To the east of the site, the South Yorkshire Joint Railway had been constructed, aligned approximately north-south. 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. This is the area of Doncaster Airport. By 1972 a tip is marked to the northwest of the site; this appears to have been infilled by 1980. There were few changes on the 1993 OS map.

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Survival:

The site was fields in 1779, and by the 1930s the site was located on the south-eastern edge of Doncaster airport. Google Street View images from October 2015 indicate that the site has already been developed with housing.

Further investigations:

Given the recent development, no further archaeological investigations are likely to be required.

Significance:

Negligible.

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 the modern housing estate, lake and Lakeside Boulevard. Google Street View images from October 2015 indicate that the site has already been developed. No archaeological earthworks 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. 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 ID

Name Details Site? Buffer?

ESY906 Report on Geophysical Survey at Doncaster Airport

Although no evidence for archaeological remains is apparent with the development area, the site lies within a broad area of archaeological interest. In particular, a complex of cropmarks to the south suggests prehistoric and Romano-British field system which might extend into the development area.

Y

SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference ID

Name Details Site? Buffer?

HSY5238 Lakeside Boulevard, Doncaster Artificial Lake Y Y

HSY5276 Wintersett Drive, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y Y

HSY4641 Bessacarr Lane, Doncaster Drained Wetland Y

HSY4808 High Ellers School, Bessacarr, Doncaster School Y

HSY4809 Institute of Higher Education, Bessacarr, Doncaster

University or College Y

HSY4815 Stoops Lane, Bessacarr, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y

HSY5239 Doncaster Carr, Doncaster Business Park Y

HSY5275 Hennings Close, Bessacarr, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y

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Allocation Reference: 799 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: The Fox, Field Road, Stainforth

Area (Ha): 0.07 NGR (centre): SE 6417 1197 Settlement: Hatfield Stainforth

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 - 3 SMR record/event - 3 records Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest Yes Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Partial n/a

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Allocation Reference: 799 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: The Fox, Field Road, Stainforth

Area (Ha): 0.07 NGR (centre): SE 6417 1197 Settlement: Hatfield Stainforth

Site assessment Known assets/character:

The SMR does not record any findspots, monuments or events within the site. Three monuments are recorded in the buffer zone: the site of Stainforth Chapel; a timber-framed building; and the site of a dovecote.

No Scheduled Monuments are recorded within the site or the buffer zone.

Three Grade listed buildings are recorded within the buffer zone: Poplar House; Stainforth Bridge; and a timber-framed building.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project did not record any features within the site. Ridge and furrow remains were recorded within the northwest edge of the buffer zone.

The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as semi-detached housing within the historic core of the medieval market town of Stainforth. The 1851 street plan is preserved in the present layout and comprises a complex network contained to the north by a town dike, a common feature of medieval town plans. The town's market place is retained within the plan as an open area to the west of the confluence of these streets. The town has seen much redevelopment of buildings since the 1970s, with some areas completely cleared and rebuilt although some older fabric survives. There is significant legibility of the medieval town plan form and vernacular elements. Character zones within the buffer include Drained Wetland; Surveyed Enclosure (Parliamentary/ Private); Valley Floor Meadows; Agglomerated fields; Planned Estate (Social Housing); School; Villas/ Detached Housing; and Semi-Detached Housing.

Cartographic/historic land use assessment:

The site contained a number of buildings set around a yard at the time of the 1853 Ordnance Survey map. These were marked as the Fox Inn on the 1892 OS map. The buildings had extended over part of the earlier yards by 1932. No further changes were shown on OS maps produced between that date and 1984.

Various features were marked within the buffer zone on the 1853 OS map including Stainforth Bridge; the Stainforth and Keadby Canal; a Corporation Yard; West Hall; Water Lane; Field Lane; various houses, gardens and fields. The 1892 map marked the New Inn; the Black Swan Inn; a swing bridge; South Bank; Fleets; a Methodist Chapel; Central House; St. Matthew’s Church; and a Sunday School. Market Place and a housing estate had been built within the buffer by the time of the 1932 OS map. A church hall, a ‘Gospel Hall’, various clubs, a police station and further housing were shown in 1962 and a poultry packing station by 1984.

Survival:

Various buildings have stood within the site since at least 1853. The construction of the buildings may have impacted on any archaeological remains within their footprints, particularly where cellars/basements are present. The northern part of the site was occupied by the inn’s yard during the 19th century and is currently its car park. Archaeological deposits may not have been impacted in this area, and here the potential for the survival of buried archaeological remains is considered to be moderate. Though this is only a small area, the site is within the historic core of Stainforth, suggesting that there is the potential for the recovery of medieval and post-medieval remains.

Further investigations:

Further archaeological investigation may be required if the site is brought forward for development. This may need to include an assessment of the impact of development on the setting of the grade II listed timber-framed building opposite the site.

Significance:

Unknown. The Fox Inn building appears to be of minor local heritage value.

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Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary:

Twenty-first-century aerial photographs show the site occupied by the Fox Inn and its car park. Street View shows the building as two adjoining brick-built structures with hipped roofs. The buildings have some late 19th-/early 20th-century historic details but in general appear undistinguished. There is no Lidar coverage for this site.

Photograph references:

Google Earth: 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009. Bing Maps: 2015. Street View 2009.

Statutory Designations Reference ID

Name Designation/ Grade

Site? Buffer?

1151600 Poplar House II Y

1192855 Stainforth Bridge II Y

1314797 Timber framed building II Y

SMR Record/event Reference ID

Name Details Site? Buffer?

00490/01 Site of medieval Stainforth Chapel

" Newly builded" in 1355. Disused after reformation. New chapel built late 17th century, again in 1819. Present church 19th century but "near to a medieval site".

Y

01530/01 Timber Framed Building, Market Place

? 17th century timber framed building in Market Place, Stainforth.

Y

03585/01 Late Post-Medieval Dovecote, Stainforth

?18th century outbuilding, probable dovecote, likely now demolished.

Y

SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference ID

Name Details Site? Buffer?

HSY4871 Historic Core, Stainforth, Doncaster Semi-Detached Housing Y Y

HSY4378 West Nab, Fishlake, Doncaster Drained Wetland Y

HSY4433 Former open fields west of Stainforth, Doncaster

Surveyed Enclosure (Parliamentary/ Private)

Y

HSY4435 Peaker Ings, Stainforth, Doncaster Surveyed Enclosure (Parliamentary/ Private)

Y

HSY4436 Former ings to the south of Kirk Bramwith, Doncaster

Surveyed Enclosure (Parliamentary/ Private)

Y

HSY4452 River Don between Fishlake and Stainforth Valley Floor Meadows Y

HSY4455 'Ash Fields', Stainforth, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y

HSY4785 Stainforth model village, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY4868 Long Toft Primary School, Stainforth School Y

HSY4869 East Bank, Stainforth, Doncaster Villas/ Detached Housing Y

HSY4888 Infill development east of Back Lane, Stainforth, Doncaster

Villas/ Detached Housing Y