Historic maps show this as an area of strip fields which have suffered from extensive boundary loss in the later half of the 20th century. These strips were enclosed from a medieval open field associated with the medieval settlement at Barugh (Domesday Book). The open field was not enclosed into strips until a relatively late date. The land is still unenclosed on a map from 1697 (ASWYAS 2002a). There is fragmentary legibility of the former strip fields as fragments of field boundaries remain. Preserved within the current field boundaries are the routes of the Barnsley canal and the Silkstone Branch Railway line. This section of the canal was opened in 1799 and continued in operation until 1953 (Glister 1996, 219). The canal is now filled in along this section. The railway line also fell out of use and had been dismantled by 1973.