First depicted on the 1977 OS 1:10000 mapping the Shirebrook First and Middle School is built on land enclosed on the 1851 OS by thin, strip like fields. These may well reflect the piecemeal enclosure of an open field in the late medieval, or post-medieval period. Fragmentary legibility of these earlier field boundaries. N.B. 1999 Cities Revealed aerial photography shows overgrown playing fields. May indicate disuse / change of use of the school buildings.