This woodland now appears to occupy much of its extent as shown on the 1891 OS 25 inch mapping. The woodland was lost between this date and 1905 when its site is shown as cleared, presumably for the quarrying of stone from the dramatic escarpment on which it stands. The felling of this woodland seems to have occurred around 1901 when the writer Harold Armitage wrote to the Sheffield Telegraph (reproduced in Armitage 1910 pp75-76) to mourn its passing. Invisible legibility.