Barnsley Football Club grounds are first marked on 1906 maps. They were built within an area of surveyed enclosure that was part of the 1779 Barnsley parliamentary award (date from English 1985). This land was enclosed from a remaining area of open town field. Swinhill was still recorded as open field in 1649 (Elliot 2002, 37). There is partial legibility of the regular enclosure pattern.