This area (featuring the indicative former open field label 'Vicar Bush Field' on the 1850s OS 6 inch to the mile survey) appears on the 1769 plan which accompanies the Laughton and Slade Hooton Enclosure Award (Sheffield Archives Ref LD 1096) as a large undivided open area to be awarded to 'John Hatfield'. The interior divisions probably date to the period between 1769 and the awards completion (as listed by English (1985, 87)) in 1771. Fragmentary legibility of older hedgerows at the edges of this polygon. (NB. The enclosure plan indicates a narrow funnel shaped enclosure along the northern edge of this area - possibly a medieval droving route from the township to Laughton Common). This route was probably absorbed into the present enclosures as a result of the Common's enclosure.