This municipal Golf Course was created some time between 1923 and 1938 from agricultural land adjacent to Woolley Wood. Some thin strands of woodland fossilise these earlier field boundaries. This land falls within the multiple tenancy farm described by John Harrison in 1937 (see Scurfield 1985) as Oakes Farm - formerly known, when in single occupancy, as Woolley Grange (a presumed property of Ecclesfield Priory). Significant legibility of boundary fragments are a feature of this former farmland.