This is an area of scrubland which is slowly regenerating. It is shown as a sand and gravel extraction pit on OS plans from 1929 until 1967. By 1985 it is shown as disused. Prior to this the area was fields with straight and regular boundaries indicative of parliamentary enclosure. This was enacted through the Austerfield award of 1767 and probably enclosed the southern portion of the town open field. Legibility of the former landscape is invisible.