A patchwork area of irregularly shaped large, agglomerated fields. Originally enclosed in a piecemeal fashion, many hedgerow boundaries still exist. However, there has been a progressive removal of these boundaries to form larger fields. Scattered throughout the whole polygon are extensive remains of earlier mining and quarrying activities in the form of bell pits and irregular earthworks. These probably date from the medieval to post-medieval period with the earliest being associated with the monks of Kirkstead Abbey in the 12th century. Although many boundaries have been removed, sufficient remain and, added to the bell pits, give partial legibility of the previous landscape.