Schools divided by a central playing field. They are first depicted on the 1982 OS map and were built to service the educational needs of the expanding settlement of Bessacarr. Prior to this, the site was occupied by fields with straight and regular edges indicative of parliamentary enclosure. The area probably formed part of the open fields of Bessacarr prior to enclosure in 1779 by the 'Cantley, Branton, Bessacarr and (High) Ellers' award. Legibility of the former landscape is invisible.