Railway Sidings and depots. Although the train track is depicted on the 1st edition OS map of 1854 it was not until the end of the 19th century that it expanded to cover much of the present polygon. Before this, the area consisted of agricultural land. The original pattern of enclosures was created by a programme of drainage on Doncaster Carr. This resulted in a series of straight and regular fields aligned on the drainage ditches. Legibility of the former landscape is invisible.