The historic OS 6 inch maps from 1851 to 1938 show that until the mid twentieth century this area (associated with the former open field name 'Harthill Field') was enclosed by a typical pattern of piecemeal strip enclosures - probably fossilising the former layout of strips and furlongs. This layout was largely lost (along with much of the external boundaries of the field) between 1938 and 1973 as a result of agricultural intensification. Fragmentary legibility of earlier landscape features possible.