Despite some boundary loss (c.20-40%), this area remains an excellent example of the surveyed enclosure of a former open field with some traces of an earlier unrelated 'ridge and furrow' pattern truncated by later geometrically divided parliamentary boundaries. English (1985, 65) gives the date of the Hatfield, Thorne, Fishlake, Stainforth and Sykehouse Act and Award as 1811 and 1825 respectively. Fragmentary legibility of earlier cultivation phase - reduced by more recent conversion back to arable usage and over ploughing of boundaries at the edges of the area likely to have been dealt with by the parliamentary award.