Tankersley deer park was enclosed in 1303-4 after Hugh de Elland was granted free warren (Hey 1986, 81-2). Prior to the enclosure of the park this area of land was probably unenclosed as the settlement as Tankersley was very small (indicated in the Domesday Book). The park reduced in size some time after 1730 (an engraving of 1730 shows the park at full size (copy in Hey 1986,82)). Jefferys map of 1775 shows the reduced size of the parkland which includes this polygon. By 1855 this polygon is mapped as regular enclosed fields which maintained their character up to 1983 after which there has been a great deal of boundary loss. There is fragmentary legibility of the former enclosures and of the earlier parkland as the current field maintains the external boundaries of the park and the enclosed fields. The origin of the former moorland landscape is uncertain though this area is likely to be moorland by the Roman period (see Bevan 2003 for discussion of environmental evidence in region).