This garden centre, first depicted in 1976, has been built within a former Millstone Grit quarry (OS GSGB 1974) itself still significantly legible within the current polygon as worked and exposed outcrops. The quarry first appears as 'Bell Hagg Quarry on the 1894 25 inch to the mile OS. Previous to the extraction of this site the 1851 OS 6 inch map data shows a typical surveyed enclosure layout almost certainly part of the Hallam Parliamentary award of 1805 (English 1985, 62). In the adjacent area (HSY 1983) the project officer has interpreted the pre enclosure character of this land as moor. Fields with straight regular boundaries indicative of surveyed enclosure, probably as part of the Upper Hallam enclosure award of 1805. The origin of the moorland landscape is uncertain though this area is likely to be moorland by the Roman period (see Bevan 2003 for discussion of environmental evidence).