The Dome leisure centre was one of the biggest in Europe when it opened in 1989. It was constructed on the site of a former airfield. Opened in 1939, the airfield was soon requisitioned for use as a scatter field. After World War Two, the airfield was used for light aircraft. Prior to this the land had been agricultural. The 1st edition OS map shows a series of semi-regular enclosures called 'Low Pasture'. The enclosures were probably created through the drainage of the carr in the 17th century. Legibility of the former landscape is invisible.