Summary of Dominant Character Figure 1: A typical landscape of
Surveyed Enclosure at Loxley Chase to the west of Sheffield.
Former moorland was converted to grassland pasture and enclosed
by straight dry-stone walls according to plans approved by the
Commissioners of the Wadsley and Loxley Chase Parliamentary Act
Enclosure awarded in 1789 (date from English 1985) © 2006 SYAS
This zone is dominated by land enclosed by straight-sided walls
or, less often in Sheffield, by hedgerows laid out to a regular
pattern. In the Sheffield district, surveyed enclosure survives
on a large scale almost exclusively to the west of the city, on
areas of higher ground. Further large tracts of land were
enclosed in a similar way elsewhere in the district, but these
have since been lost to urbanisation. The majority of the
surviving landscapes of this type are found between the city and
the moorland zone. This landscape is largely the result of
enclosure by Parliamentary Award in the late 18th and early 19th
centuries, when moorla