This land is shown as already enclosed in advance of the 1769 Enclosure plan fo Laughton en le Morthen and Slade Hooton (Sheffield Archives LD 1096), suggesting post-medieval enclosure by agreement. The large size of the enclosures and their similarity in the 1850s map data suggests a late date for this process. Only fragmentary legibility survives in this area of the pre twentieth century landscape the 20th century having seen the construction of the South Yorkshire Joint Railway (a mineral line connecting local coal mines to the national network) and the removal of internal subdivisions across this area.