It no longer exists in any visible form, but the first edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map recorded it as a circular enclosure, preserving at least the memory of its shape and approximate scale before it disappeared from the landscape entirely.

Tree-rings, sometimes called ring plantations or designed tree enclosures, were a feature of improved or ornamental estate landscapes, particularly from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries onwards. They were planted on prominent rises or hillocks, often to be seen from a house or avenue, giving an otherwise flat or featureless countryside a sense of designed depth. The fact that this one was sited on a hillock fits that pattern neatly. Whether it was planted as a purely aesthetic gesture, as a shelter belt for livestock, or as some combination of both, is not recorded. What the Ordnance Survey cartographers captured, presumably in the mid-nineteenth century when the first edition sheets were being compiled, was a coherent circular form about fifty metres in diameter. At some point after that survey, the trees were removed or died, and no surface trace of the enclosure survives today.