This burial ground is first depicted on the 1930 OS map and was probably built to cater for the expanding settlement of New Rossington. The 1st edition OS map of 1854 shows an area of strip fields with a reverse S-boundary indicative of enclosure from open fields. The field boundaries extend out of the polygon suggesting an extensive system. However, the area to the north was probably part of a deer park centred on Draw Dikes Manor. Doncaster Corporation acquired the land in 1505 and the open fields may have originated at this time. The name 'Ing Field' marked on the 1st edition map may recall the pasture or meadow prior to this. Legibility of this former landscape is fragmentary as the west and eastern boundaries of the burial ground fossilise part of the strip field boundaries.