Previously part of Cantley Park, this area is now given over to allotments. Prior to this the area was agricultural. It was probably enclosed from a wet woodland environment by the Cantley, Branton, Bessacarr and Ellers Enclosure Award of 1779 (English 1985, 29). Roman pottery kilns were excavated close to the site and form part of an important regional group. Legibility of the former landscape is invisible.