Development of the Pheasant Inn site of Dodworth High Street.

After a long time, during which the site has been a derelict eyesore, the clearance work which precedes the building operation, has begun.

In his thesis (1984) on Dodworth and Stainborough, Sam Sykes, speculated that the site - which was formerly known as 'Delf Garth' - may have been the location of the earliest human settlement in Dodworth. However work by an archaeologist for the South Yorkshire Archaeology Department a few years ago, soon after the Pheasant was demolished, revealed little in the way of evidence. So let's see if anything is turned up by the current work.

Also let us hope and believe that whatever is erected on the site is a credit to the village and something which enhances it.