Early maps show this area of enclosure to be made up of very small sinuously bounded fields. These boundaries have been straightened and the former hedgerows replaced with fences at around 1965. The new enclosures have retained fragmentary legibility of the ancient enclosures as they enclose broadly the same area but in a more regular pattern. The placename 'Warren Royd' may indicate use of this land for breeding. The association with rabbits specifically only occurred after the fifteen century (Hey1979, 80). 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).