It is categorised as a designed landscape feature, which places it in the tradition of deliberate ornamental planting, the kind of thing associated with demesne gardens and landed estates, where copses and tree groupings were arranged as much for visual effect as for shelter or timber. What makes this one quietly odd is its setting: the maps note it sat in ground liable to flooding, a curious choice for something intended to endure.

The enclosure measures roughly sixty metres on its longer axis and forty-five on the shorter, making it a modest but deliberate intervention in the landscape. It appears on both the 1838 and 1933 editions of the six-inch Ordnance Survey map in broadly the same irregular shape, suggesting it survived largely intact across nearly a century. By the time anyone looked closely at it in 1983, the interior had become overgrown, though the field walls enclosing it remained strong. Whether the planting inside still reflects anything of its original design at that point is not recorded.