This area retains most of the surveyed enclosure boundaries shown on the 1825 enclosure award (Haywood 1825). Mapping undertaken by the Doncaster Hedgerow Project (Doncaster MBC 2006) shows that most of the boundaries mapped by the enclosure award are still maintained as 'light hedges'. Part of an extensive network of common pasture and arable lands between Hatfield and Hatfield Moors enclosed as a part of this award.