Large recreational fishing venue and caravan park. The site was previously subject to gravel extraction and it is likely that this formed the depressions for the lakes. Prior to quarrying the site was agricultural. The 1st edition OS map of 1854 shows enclosures called 'Hay Field' and 'Water Close'. They were enclosed by the Finningley, Auckley and Blaxton parliamentary enclosure award in 1778, probably from Hurst Common. Excavations in the early 1990s revealed evidence for a Romano-British settlement. The drainage improvements are likely to date from this period also. Legibility of the former landscape is invisible.