The following is an incomplete list of information extracted following a visit to the West Yorkshire Archaeological Service offices in Wakefield. (Acknowledgement Mr I Sanderson WY Archaeology Dept.)

• There is a conjectured route of a roman road crossing Park Lane from Purston Jaglin  to Rothwell Haigh.  The presence of quarries alongside add to this theory.
• Methley Manor was held in Frankelmoign by the Hospitall of St. Nicholas, Pontefract. The Manor House occupying the south side of  Mickletown until the beginning of the 15th century.
• Sir Robt. Waterton built a new manor house and deer park to the west of the church.
• Geophysical survey of 1991 revealed a ring ditch interpreted as a funery site to the west of Methley church.
• Other trackways and land divisions most likely relate to late pre-historic, Romano/British activity.
• Artefactual evidence consists mainly of flints recovered in the vicinity of Willow Grove farm (near to the confluence).
• Roman artefacts were found south of Boat Lane - the sand & gravel quarry excavations produced 265 shards of roman potterymostly 4th century.  An earlier excavation found shards of Samian Ware suggesting 1-2nd century.  Two 3rd cent. coins were also recovered from this area.  Isolated finds include a small glass vessel in the vicinity of Savile Road.
• Clumpcliffe is documented at 1380ad, the present buildings are 17th century or possible earlier farmhouse.   A Gazebo Grade II listed structure dated 1708 on the site has now collapsed.
• Whitecross Field previously known as Westfield was renamed following the plague of 1629/32.   However Whitecrosse is documented in records of 1373.

St Oswalds Church - Saxon Foundations.   Formerly an aisleless church with a west chamber which had thicker walls than the nave and was half a square in plan. The north half of a cross wall running beneath the present nave just west of the north door can be uncovered by trapdoor revealing a wall of some 1.5m thickness.