This area of extremely geometric farmland dates in the first instance to the parliamentary enclosure and drainage of Hatfield Moor or Waste as a result of the 1811:1825 enclosure act: award for Hatfield, Thorne, Fishlake, Stainforth and Sykehouse (date from English 1985). The accompanying plan from this award (Haywood 1825), shows the basic drainage layout of this farm which survives to this day. The land was reclaimed (probably by a combination of drainage, peat cutting and dry warping) from part of the Hatfield Moor, an ancient raised mire which former from the late prehistoric period onwards (see . Much of the rest of the mire has been reduced by peat cutting, mostly since the 1960s (see HSY4401). This farm and its buildings, dating in part to the mid 19th century but much enlarged in the early 20th century, represent an important example of a strictly geometric and recently enclosed and drained single farm holding. No legibility of the former character of this land.