First depicted as a triangular area set aside from the large scale municipal housing estate built in this area on the 1938 OS mapping. This area of Sheffield is shown on both the Fairbanks map of 1784 (see Sewell 2004, fig 3) and the 1851 OS as being characterises by irregular piecemeal type enclosures. There is presently no legibility of earlier field boundaries in the present park. It is likely that the area was levelled in order to provide an area for playing fields etc.