Created at the same time as the adjacent private housing development of medium density detached properties, undertaken between 1982 and 1997. This phase of development took place in an area of park first landscaped at the direction of Godfrey Copley in the late 17th and early 18th century in the continental style which he had witnessed first hand on a visit to Versailles (Klemperer 2003 quoted in Fenton-Thomas). This classical style had by the 1850s been almost completely replaced by grounds in the naturalistic style with geometric plantings and canals replaced by scattered specimen trees and semi regular woodland clumps presented by means of curving and sinuous driveways and walks designed to offer optimum views of this idealised landscape and the surrounding managed countryside of the surrounding estate. Significant legibility of surviving ridge and furrow in this area (SMR3728) is presumably older than the establishment of Sprotbrough park in the late 17th century and provides evidence of open field cultivation.