Golf courses and sports fields broadly dating in terms of their present character to the 1930s. These courses, however, fossilise features that are part of an elite landscape of great complexity and time depth. This area formed the immediate hinterland of the Premonstratensian Abbey of Beauchief, formed in 1183 (Merrony 1994, 60). This area is likely to have comprised an area of intensively farmed land that supported the monastic community (see HSY2254 for the site of the monastic complex). Earthworks (such as ridge and furrow and associated hollow-ways) and other archaeological features are well preserved across this landscape due to the early establishment of this area as ornamental parkland (centred on Beauchief Hall (HSY2255) and provide a good potential reserve of archaeological source material for further study of the medieval agricultural landscape. On dissolution this land appears to have passed wholesale along with the other possessions of Beauchief in the grant made by Henry VIII in 1537 to Sir Nicholas Strelley for £233. The lands within this polygon (with the area of the later hall, HSY2255) appear to be closely described within this grant, which lists "121 acres of arable land, 55 1/2 acres of meadow and 73 acres of pasture" (Potter 1981, 47). This polygon and HSY2255 total 251, just 2 acres more than that listed. This theory is also supported by the W. Fairbank survey notes "At Beauchief 1759-61" (studied by Smith 1990). At the time of the Fairbank survey it seems that the majority of the estate was still in agricultural use although it is likely that the principal use of the land to the south of High Wood was as an ornamental park. There is partial legibility of the medieval agricultural landscape despite later reuse as golf courses; the present boundaries of this area are likely to have been little changed for at least the past 500 years - except for the building of housing along the Twentywell Lane frontage in the 20th century (HSY8345).