Probably parliamentary enclosure of open moorland. Possibly the result of the incomplete 1818 Act of Parliamentary Enclosure for Upper Midhope (Date from English 1985, 98). No legibility of earlier type. Land to the south formerly enclosed and improved now returning to moorland flora. The date of origin of the moorland is uncertain but it had probably developed in this area by the Roman period (see Bevan 2003 for discussion of environmental evidence in the area).