Willow Primary school is first depicted on the 1982 OS map and is probably coeval with the surrounding residential properties. Prior to this, the site was occupied by fields with straight and regular edges indicative of parliamentary enclosure. It was part of Bessacarr Low Field and probably farmed as an open field prior to enclosure in 1779 by the 'Cantley, Branton, Bessacarr and (High) Ellers' award. Legibility of the former landscape is invisible.