Semi detached housing estates dating to c1977 when the former South Yorkshire Archaeological Field Research Unit received £2000 from the Department of the Environment for a rescue excavation of a supposed long barrow site (which they failed to locate) - SMR PRN backup file 726). Fragmentary legibility of pre-existing field boundaries which were largely respected during development. Earlier landscape (as reconstructed from historic map evidence was largely one of the surveyed enclosure (probably in 1768 - Todwick and North Anston award - English 1985) of former open fields although there may have been some earlier piecemeal enclosure around the surviving 'Hen Eggs Farm'. Polygon includes plantation woodland fragments from earlier enclosed landscape.