Known to have been a possession of the monks of Beauchief Abbey in the middle ages who managed the wood as 'coppice with standards' a late 15th century document referring to the presence of 'wavers' (young trees being allowed to reach maturity for timber production as well as the production of 'cooll' (i.e. charcoal) for use in iron smelting (Jones 1989, pages 14 and 39). Presence of lead smelting hearth (SMR 3749) and former 'Smelting house field' (Crossley 1989, 99) nearby indicate probable whitecoal production in this woodland. Significant legibility of historically referenced former springwood now overgrown.