These woodlands, are in typical ancient woodland locations (Blackbrook Wood cloaking a stream and clough and Hagg Wood the steep slope caused by an escarpment of the Rivelin Grit rock (OS GSGB 1974). In addition the land around the confluence of the Rivelin and the Blackbrook have been known as 'The Coppice' since at least 1637 (Scurfield 1986, Fig 2). However little of the area of this polygon was wooded in 1851 and the present wood names do not appear on OS mapping until 1891 when it appears that they were beginning to arise as secondary woodland. As a result the coherence of the present type, which as secondary woodland is strong, only dates to the later 19th century but the legibility of the likely past type of ancient woodland can be inferred to be fragmentary from the local land form and placename evidence.