Exceptionally well preserved strip enclosure, appearing on the 1825 Enclosure Award plan for Hatfield Thorne, Fishlake, Stainforth and Sykehouse (Sheffield Archives microfilm ref. A 152), and from the angular road pattern shown on Jefferys map to have been enclosed in advance of the parliamentary award. 'Closes' within this area part of which is still known as 'Hayes' (meaning 'enclosure') are mentioned in late 18th century legal papers (Sheffield Archives references DDCL/1808 and CM/1373) which refer to 'closes in the Hays of Fishlake'. The area is characterised by frequent but dispersed farmsteads of unknown date, hedged fields and a network of green lanes which formerly provided access both to the fields (some of which retain ridge and furrow earthworks) and to the more distant former moors. Fragmentary legibility of older elements possible, but an important landscape character unit in its own right.