These plantations, which occupy steep slopes around the Limb Brook, are likely to have been formalised at the time of the parliamentary enclosure of the surrounding countryside, having straight sides and internal divisions. To the south of the Limb Brook (in Dore parish), the land was formerly Dore Moor (enclosed c.1822), and to the North (formerly Upper Hallam parish) in 1805 (Dates from English 1985 and Kain et al 2004). The placename 'Bole Hill' is common in this area and often related to medieval lead smelting sites. 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).