This large open area of agricultural land was significantly intensified by the removal of surveyed boundaries between 1967 and 1989 in order to make agglomerated agricultural units. Only the sinuous 'Westfield Road' survives from the earlier landscape of the probable medieval common arable 'West Field' other parts of the field having been lost to the Cortonwood Colliery (now a retail park) and the settlement of Brampton to the north. This area lies within the former open 'West Field' of 'Brampton Bierley' as surveyed for Parliamentary Enclosure by Wm. Bingley in 1816 (Sheffield Archives NBC 58 - Plan 1).