Cantley Sycamore Primary school is first depicted on the 1967 OS map but is probably contemporary with the surrounding residential properties and dated to the late 1950s. Prior to this, the site was occupied by fields with straight and regular edges indicative of parliamentary enclosure. It was part of Bessacarr High Field and probably farmed as an open field prior to enclosure in 1779 by the 'Cantley, Branton, Bessacarr and (High) Ellers' award. Roman pottery kilns were excavated in the early 1950s ahead of the construction of the housing estate and form an important regional group. Legibility of the former landscape is invisible.