Despite the agglomeration of a number of units in the late 20th century this area still retains a semi regular pattern of straight sided enclosure not unlike the disparkment enclosures observed at the sites of other former deer parks in South Yorkshire (e.g. Sheffield Deer Park, Shirecliffe Deer Park. The area (known as 'The Parks') is probably the enclosed Hatfield Deer Park referred to in Hunter as "a park of five hundred acres, the memory of which is still retained in the nomenclature of the district" (Hunter 1828, 155) although it is unclear from map and placename evidence where the boundary of this area lay.