Warmsworth burial ground is first depicted on the 1937 OS map. Formerly the land was agricultural, having the character of a strip field enclosed from an open field. Legibility of the former character is fragmentary due to the western boundary of the strip field being retained. The hedgerow at the western boundary is marked on the 1838 Tithe plan . A plan of 1826 shows much of the area around Warmsworth still cultivated as open fields.