School first mapped in 1851and marked as a national school. At this time the village of Hoyland Swaine didn’t stretch this far north and the position of the school is likely to have been chosen to make it accessible to the other small settlements surrounding Gadding Moor and Haigh Common. The fields were probably enclosed by the time the school was built because Cross Lane, which the school sits on, is a very straight road which looks like an enclosure period development. The land was probably part of the parliamentary enclosure award in this area (date English 1985). There is fragmentary legibility of this enclosed landscape as the school respects the road. The origin of the former moorland landscape is uncertain though this area is likely to be moorland by the Roman period (see Bevan 2003 for discussion of environmental evidence in region).