Well preserved surveyed enclosure landscape created by allotment and drainage of the northern and western fringes of Thorne Moor or Waste (see HSY 4401 for full description of the general history of the Waste) as a part of the Hatfield Thorne, Fishlake, Stainforth and Sykehouse Enclosure Act: Award of 1811:1825. The landscape, which may be described as a late example of the 'Moorland Allotment' type described by Miller (1997), is characterised by rectangular enclosures enclosed by drainage ditches and typically between 5 and 10 hectares in size associated with straight roads and dispersed early 19th century farmsteads. Some amalgamation of smaller enclosures has created a more open landscape than originally laid out although this process is now largely limited by the presence of the drainage network. The remaining field pattern represents around 1/2 of the land successfully converted from mire to farmland by 1900. Much of the remaining land (e.g. HSY 4407, 4406, 4405, 4411) has since been reused as either institutional (RAF Lindholme/ HMP Lindholme) or the extensive gravel pits / fishing ponds on the east of the present moorland. Fragmentary legibility of the edge of Hatfield Moor as in existence before the 1825 enclosure award.