This land, within which lie a number of small hamlets, is characterised by straight sided enclosure of less regular pattern than the majority of the 19th century parliamentary enclosures of Thurlstone, and straight stretches of enclosure period roads such as Ecklands Long Lane and Liley Lane. Access to Archives records (ww.a2a.org.uk) the Crewe Muniments collection (Part 1) at Sheffield Archives, which record references to townfields and crofts around Ecklands from at least the late middle ages until 1807 when document (Shef. archives ref) CM / 1063 records that "Various parcels of land in open field in Thurlstone called Ecklands Fields which [ the undersigned ] have agreed to enclose and re-divide." Evidence of a landscape earlier than this 'private' enclosure agreement is retained in the form of the winding lane (variously called Hillside, Hall Parkin and Field Lane at different points in 1851) that connects the hamlets of Ecklands with other older farmsteads such as the 14th - 15th century Shore Hall (SMR PRN 1451). Boundary features and buildings along this route have the potential to predate other roads and structures within the polygon. The sinuous hedgerow boundaries along the valley floor may also predate the 19th century. Running in an east - west orientation across the area is the disused track bed and earthworks of the former Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, built in the 1840s. Fragmentary legibility of relict landscape features.