Burngreave Cemetery included on English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens as one of the earliest 'modern' cemeteries to be built in the city (see SMR record 4583). This part of the cemetery is shown as irregular enclosures typical of 'ancient' piecemeal enclosure on the 1851 and earlier mapping. Scurfield (1986) interpreted these fields as supporting arable farming in 1637. Invisible legibility of earlier enclosed landscape which was erased at the time of conversion to institutional use. Some evidence of small scale mineral extraction on the 1851 OS.