First depicted as a public park on the 1973 OS but probably in recreational use ever since the construction of the estate (?1950s) which covers the southern town fields of Ecclesfield. Includes tennis courts and other playing fields. There is no legibility of the former town fields either within or fossilised by the present boundaries. Prior to construction of the surrounding estates the layout of the open fields was visible through sinuous piecemeal boundaries. Scurfield's (1986) reconstruction of the town fields at the time of Harrison's 1637 survey shows this area as a large piecemeal enclosure called great flatt - 'Flat', when used as a fieldname is often indicative of 'land enclosed from a division of the common field' (Field, 1972). It is therefore possible that piecemeal separation from the common fields was already advancing in this area before 1637. Invisible legibility of earlier landscape types.