The Yorkshire Residential School for the Deaf opened in 1829. It has since expanded considerably and offers many courses and facilities for a wide range of ages. For this reason it has been characterised as a college rather than a school. It lays within the Town Moor conservation area. It was constructed on strip fields which had formerly been part of Doncaster Town Field. The strip fields were probably consolidated and enclosed from furlongs of the open field. Legibility of the former landscape is invisible.