Surveyed (probably parliamentary) enclosure of upland moorland. Includes the enclosure of Penistone Common and Race Common which are part of the 1819 Penistone enclosure award. Evidence of previous type from place name but no legibility visible in current landscape. Jefferys' map of 1775 shows this area as unenclosed land. The origin of the former moorland landscape is uncertain though this area is likely to be moorland by the Roman period (see Bevan 2003 for discussion of environmental evidence in region). Enclosure date average of that for Thurlstone, Penistone and Langsett in (English, 1985). Route of Hartcliff Road follows the line of the early medieval salt track which continues towards Doncaster (Hey 1979, 62). The four circular ended fields along Mossley road were an experiment of William Payne, the Lord of Langsett, to provide shelter for livestock from all directions. These were constructed at the time of the parliamentary enclosure (Hey 2002, 77-78). The high stone walls survive well.