Allotment gardens (first depicted on 1931 maps) associated with the settlement at Hoyland Common. This area would have been within the medieval deer park at Tankersley which was enclosed in 1303 when a grant of free warren was given to Hugh de Elland (Hey 1986, 81). An engraving dating to 1730 (copy in Hey 1986, 82) shows this area to be still within the park at this point but it was later enclosed. Fairbanks plan of 1772 (copy in James 2005) shows this area as enclosed land. The origin of the former moorland landscape is uncertain.