This land is characterised by large field divisions, with some pockets of major boundary loss. None of the present boundaries are likely to predate the 18th century with most being at least semi surveyed, however the land is not shown as either woodland or common on either the 1855 OS 6 inch mapping or on Jefferys 1775 survey of Yorkshire. The land is likely to have been within the ownership of the Wentworth Estate (as evidenced by the presence of related follies around the landscape) and has seen large scale episodes of open cast mining and reinstatement in the twentieth century. Some legibility of earlier farmsteads indicating a previous history of postmedieval piecemeal enclosure although the past character history is difficult to interpret.