This is an area with predominantly long fields created through the removal of internal field boundaries. The process has been ongoing since the parliamentary enclosure of Braithwell Common in 1770 but appears to have been speeded up post WWII. It is likely that the construction of the M18 motorway, which cuts through the former enclosures, accelerated the process. The northeast of the polygon contains fields used for the mining of raddle- a form of red ochre. The fields are marked as 'reddle pits' on Jefferys' Map of Yorkshire, dated 1775. Legibility of the former landscape is fragmentary as the name 'Braithwell Common' persists.