Former open fields in the area of Norton township. English (1985) records the Campsall, Askern and Norton Enclosure award as covering Open fields, meadows, ings, pastures, commons and waste in 1881. 1851 OS shows a few enclosed strips on the fringes of the surveyed enclosures although this was not overwhelming and is now very fragmentarily visible. Extensive cropmark landscape underlies this area on the Magnesian limestone.