This is an area of woodland plantation surrounding an older wood. The 1st edition OS map of 1854 shows the area as fields with regular and straight boundaries. The fields were created in the early 17th century as part of a programme of improvement and drainage. Prior to this the area was probably a wet common. A gravel pit is first shown in the area of Spen Close plantation on the 1948 OS plan. By 1968 much of the area is subject to gravel extraction or storage. Spen Close plantation is planted by the mid 1980s. Legibility of the former landscape is invisible.