Playing field contemporary with surrounding housing estate. Prior to housing development on this area of Birley Moor this piece of land was the site of Birley Moor Colliery depicted from 1894 until 1938. First shown in present use in 1938. No legibility of coal mine or earlier surveyed enclosure of Birley Moor. The origin of the moorland landscape is uncertain though this area is likely to be moorland by the Roman period (see Bevan 2003 for discussion of environmental evidence).