This land falls within the boundaries of the park wall of Tankersley deer park. The park was probably enclosed in 1303 when Hugh de Elland was granted the right to free warren (Hey 1986, 81). A engraving dated to 1730 (copy in Hey 1986, 81) shows this area to still be parkland. Disemparkment must have occurred sometime after this as Fairbanks maps of 1772 (copies in James 2005) show this land as enclosed agricultural land. Between 1953 and 1959 most of this area was subject to opencast mining (ibid, 9) This led to considerable boundary loss. Some of the former field pattern has survived, however, as some boundaries were reinstated with fences giving partial legibility of the former landscape. The origin of the former moorland landscape is uncertain.