This land is characterised by thin semi regular enclosures, frequently enclosed by mature sinuous hedgerows and cut through by winding roadways. This countryside appears to have been pre-existing by the time of the Laughton en le Morthen and Slade Hooton Enclosure Award plan of 1769 (Sheffield Archives LD1096) which indicates that the subdivisions on the 1850s OS 6 inch plan were mostly in place already (rather than showing who should make a 'new' boundary') and that most enclosures already carried field names. The enclosure pattern possibly originated in the piecemeal enclosure of strips from a former common arable field. There has been some (less than 40%) loss of boundaries shown in 1851 reducing the overall legibility of this area to 'partial'.