Surveyed enclosure with major boundary loss >50%. However enclosure period roads, farmsteads and surviving boundaries are highly characteristic of Parliamentary Enclosure patterns. Some of land to north and south lost to urban growth of Swinton and Rawmarsh respectively. Land named as Swinton and Rawmarsh Commons on OS maps and depicted as common on Jefferys' 1775 map of Yorkshire. Enclosure Awards for Swinton and Rawmarsh date to 1776 and 1781 although parts of Swinton were also enclosed as part of the Brampton Bierlow Award of 1820 (English 1985). The common was exploited for industrial use before its agricultural enclosure by the later 18th century. Significant physical remains exist to the north of the Swinton pottery (HSY3117), the location of which is associated with the former common in order to exploit local resources such as coal, wood and clay.