Enclosure Award 1813 (Doncaster Archives). The area is low lying being drained by the Abbess Dike which bisects the Common. Writing about the area in 1866 William Hatfield reported that this area (between 5-10m above OD) was flooded during winter and that drainage and enclosure had been undertaken "to the utter disregard of the ancient privilege of pasturage and the right of way! Digging turf, catching fish, cutting wood, and the like… are lost forever to the poor" (quoted in Pidcock-Burns 1996, 22).