The average size of individual enclosures within this area is between three to four times that in 1938 following the amalgamation through the removal of internal divisions of surveyed boundaries almost certainly first laid out by the 1813 Cadeby Parliamentary Award. Field names indicate that most of this area was formerly unenclosed open fields. The enclosure of this area is unusually regular and geometric and the surviving boundaries and ruler straight road pattern give significant legibility to the underlying character of parliamentary enclosure. SMR records record possible occupation evidence from the Neolithic period onwards. NB. An 1811 exchange of lands with an accompanying plan exists (Sheffield Archives 1811 MHD/36 Rodgers 1811). The plan accompanying this exchange (which took place between the Enclosure Act and its Award and was overseen by the Enclosure Commissioner Thomas Dyson) demonstrates that at least some of this area had already been enclosed. This plan also is the first map evidence of 'Cadeby Road' to the north of the village. It is possible that this road was laid out as the first practical act of the Enclosure Award (the road is not depicted by Jefferys in 1775). The road is a uniform 30 feet wide and perfectly straight, cutting across boundary lines demarcating the 'old inclosures' and former open fields shown on the plan. This road appears to have replaced an older route along the eastern boundary of Melton Park, around the site of Wildthorpe village and joining the Cadeby to Sprotborough Road to the east of Cadeby village.