A small hamlet was in existence at the southern end of a track called 'Milnhouse Lane' by 1788 and is shown on the Fairbank plan, which made reference to the Ecclesall Enclosure Award of the same year. The houses lay along the southern end of the lane. A scattering of early buildings survived until the 1851 OS mapping, including the former farm buildings still extant at 36a and 25 Millhouses Lane. Otherwise the present buildings are contemporary with the laying out of the area for speculative suburban villa development. The arcing roads that provide the skeleton of this suburb were laid out by 1891. However, by this time only a few plots appear to have been built on by large villas. By 1905 much of the area had been developed - mostly with less grand but still large typically Edwardian semi -detached villas. Partial survivals of earlier post-medieval buildings. The suburb includes a Methodist church built at the same time as its suburbanisation built on a prominently visible spot at the entrance to the suburb where Millhouses lane joins Abbeydale Road.