This plantation is marked as a very thin strip of trees of the 1st edition OS map of 1854 only beginning to assume its present size by the early 20th century. Prior to this the bulk of the land is fields with regular and straight boundaries. It was enclosed by the Finningley, Auckley and Blaxton parliamentary enclosure award in 1778 from Hurst Common. Legibility of the former landscape is invisible.