This woodland plantation is depicted on the 1st edition OS map of 1854 and was probably planted shortly after the parliamentary enclosure of the site. Prior to this, it was part of Bessacarr High Field and probably farmed as an open field. It was enclosed in 1779 by the 'Cantley, Branton, Bessacarr and (High) Ellers' parliamentary award. Legibility of the former landscape is invisible.