The first phase of this large educational college is depicted as a school on the 1953 1:1250 OS plan. The building is currently part of the Sheffield College but is due to be replaced and ?demolished in 2005 when it will be replaced by the new Hillsborough College. Within the open fields of Ecclesfield as recorded in Harrison's 1637 survey as interpreted by Scurfield (Scurfield 1986). This area is shown on OS mapping from 1853 to 1938 as enclosed by piecemeal boundaries exhibiting characteristic 's-curve' boundaries of former ridge and furrow cultivation. Invisible legibility of earlier landscapes.