This area of land, dominated by the A57 Trunk Road (built 1764 as the Attercliffe - Worksop Turnpike (Smith 1997)), is shown on the 1851 OS 6 inch sheet covering this area as land with 'undefined' divisions - probably traditional 'open field' strips. By 1891 the area had been re allocated as formally enclosed land - probably by private agreement. Since 1938 significant boundary loss and agricultural intensification has resulted in the present agglomerated character. Invisible legibility of earlier landscape characters.