In November 1853 large areas of lands across the area were auctioned at the Chequers Inn (home of William Wilson) that were the freehold estate of the late George Booth. These included many closes of arable, pasture and meadow land, split up into lots, including lot 14, a collection of arable closes, known as Frickley Lane Close. The land was in the occupation of James Brook.

Today the starting point of Frickley Lane is very much different to that of the 1854 Ordnance Survey Map. In the 1850’s the junction of Common Lane (today Doncaster Road) and Frickley Lane was close to where the mini roundabout is today, the junction of Moorhouse Court and Goosehole Lane.

The 1854 published Ordnance Survey map shows that Frickley Lane led south west towards the hamlet of Frickley, and both Frickley Hall and the old hall. The 1854 junction of Frickley Lane and a footpath leading south east towards Bradle Car Lane and Spring Lane is where today the altered route of Frickley Lane picks up the original route.

This area of South Elmsall Common was entirely fields, at the time of the 1854 Ordnance Survey map publication.

In September 1867 an auction of various plots of land and buildings took place by Messrs. Waite and Crouch, at the Chequers Inn, found within the West Field area. The lots were part of a wider estate occupied by a tenant farmer known as Frederick Beaumont, who had agreed to end his tenancy and vacate the estate by the following February. The buildings said to be in “good repair” and the arable land “in a high state of cultivation.” There were eight lots, with several of them being closes of grass and arable land that lay together, bounded on the east by Frickley Lane. Lot 6 was a close of arable land on the common, bounded on the south east by Frickley Lane. Lot 7 was a close of arable land known as Billy Button, bounded to the north by Hampole Beck. Lot 8 was a collection of closes, with one being grassland known as Far Inccroft, another being arable land known as Incroft and the final being arable land known as Near Incroft.