Levitt Hagg
The River Don valley, in which the settlement was situated, was a site given to limestone formations which lent themselves to early mining for building purposes.[6] Limestone from the quarries at Levitt Hagg, which had a vertical height of 75 feet,[7] has been widely used in building in the South Yorkshire area since medieval times.An account book from the mid-eighteenth century records the expenses of quarrying limestone at the site, which belonged at that time to the Battie-Wrightson family of Cusworth.The village of Levitt Hagg began to grow around 1815 when the company of Lockwood, Blagden and Kemp constructed six cottages, known locally as 'White Row.'The insanitary conditions and the badly polluted state of the river led to all the Levitt Hagg houses being condemned as unfit for occupation and by 1957 the area had been cleared.