Plantation woodland which is not marked on Jefferys map of 1775. The plantation may have developed in around 1825 when there was high demand for oaks because of tanning (Rackham 1990, 96). The map seems to indicate this was enclosed land prior to the plantation but the date of this is uncertain. There was probably little cultivated land around Pilley in the early medieval period (Domesday Book indicates it was a small settlement) so the enclosures were probably later. There is no legibility of the former landscape. The origin of the former moorland landscape is uncertain though this area is likely to be moorland by the Roman period (see Bevan 2003 for discussion of environmental evidence in region).