Area covering parts of Bolton Ings, Billingley Ings, Wombwell Ings and Darfield Ings. The placename 'Ings' can refer to meadow or pasture (Field 1972, 113). The land along the river Dearne is liable to flooding and has been drained in modern periods; it would have been good land for meadow, which was valuable in the medieval period (Rackham 1986, 334-339). Parts of this meadow land was enclosed as part of the 1761 Bolton upon Dearne parliamentary award (date from English 1985) but the Wombwell, Billingley and Darfield parliamentary awards do not mention the enclosure of meadow. Much of the land is now under redevelopment as a bird reserve. There is fragmentary legibility of the former surveyed enclosures although there has been considerable boundary loss and imposition of roads and railways through the area.