Influenced by garden village principles, it provided the workers with modern facilities; it had a tramway to deliver coal to the houses.

Designed around a large oval village green with an access road through the centre, the houses are of varying styles.

In the back yards were enclosed ashpit lavatories that were emptied weekly at night by staff employed by the colliery company.

A branch of the Bolsover Co-operative Society opened its store in the village and hawkers brought fish and fresh fruit for sale.

[3] Most of the colliery employees lived outside the village and used the workmen's stopping trains that ran to Creswell railway station from Mansfield.