Enclosed 1804 as a part of the Eckington Enclosure award (Stroud 1996, 103). Formerly Mosborough Moor. Area includes overgrown quarry depicted 1877 which gives fragmentary legibility of non current usage. 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).