Nook Lane Junior school sits at the centre of a modern housing estate, although it predates that estate. It was probably built during the mid 1960s to service the new council estates that were being built in Stannington. The school stands at the end of Nook Lane. This used to lead to Nook Farm. The farm was shown on the 1st edition OS map of 1855. The irregular nature of the fields depicted suggests the fields were enclosed in a piecemeal fashion during the medieval period. Legibility is invisible. 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).