This large area of land represents the bulk of the parish of Marr and is today characterised by huge open agricultural units, largely unbounded apart from the roads which connect the village with those surrounding it. Past landscape character has been largely blurred by the process of boundary removal which was largely complete in this parish by the mid 1960s. Earlier maps show a more fine-grained pattern of much smaller enclosures with a mixture of sinuous enclosure of former open fields mixed with evidence (in the form of straighter boundaries) of some final surveyed enclosure. In the south east of the parish lies a farmstead named 'Marr Grange' around which in 1851 lay a poorly defined area of less regular enclosure. Recorded on SMR as site of monastic grange. Invisible legibility of earlier enclosure patterns.