Buck Wood is an ancient woodland sitting on a steep slope overlooking Gleadless valley. The name is relatively recent (Jones, 1989, 53). In the Harrison survey of 1637 the name Berrystorth is used. Storth derives from the Norse word for woodland. The boundary has remained unchanged since the 17th century. There is evidence for managed coppicing within the woodland until the end of the 19th century and charcoal burning platforms have been recorded. At the northern edge of the wood, a bank has been identified as the remnants of the medieval Sheffield Park boundary associated with Sheffield Manor (NAA 2001, 9-16). Little of the boundary survives throughout Sheffield and this is an important relict of an earlier landscape. Legibility is partial due to the surviving medieval boundary bank.