Modern surveyed enclosure to the south of Kexbrough which was reinstated as agricultural land after opencast coal mining which caused the alteration of field boundaries between 1938 and 1965 mapping. The mining would have started after 1942 which was when the Directorate of Opencast Coal was created (Gray 1976, 41). The previous piecemeal enclosure probably enclosed former medieval open fields. These may have been associated with the settlement at Darton rather than Kexbrough as they fall within the historic township. They have been separated from the town, however, by the construction of the motorway in 1968. There is fragmentary legibility of the former enclosed landscapes as the route of the older roads are retained.