Bents Green Special Schools provide education for learners with special needs. It is first recorded as a school on the 1935 25 inch OS map. The school is then marked as an 'Open Air School'. These were schools for 'delicate children' where it was thought that exposure to the open air would nourish them. The schools have reused a building marked on earlier maps as Bents Green Lodge. The lodge is on the 1st Edition OS map of 1855 and may even be the building recorded on the Enclosure map of 1788. The polygon marks out an area containing the school buildings as separate from the playing fields. This was the area occupied by the Lodge and its gardens. It also corresponds to an area of new surveyed enclosure as marked on the Enclosure award map of 1788. Legibility is partial due to this. The origin of the moorland landscape is uncertain though this area is likely to be moorland by the Roman period (see Bevan 2003 for discussion of environmental evidence).