This polygon details the original area leased by the Birkendale Benefit Building Society. The Birkendale View Estate was established by the Birkendale Benefit Building Society in 1848. It was a forerunner of the Freehold Land Societies in Sheffield but only offered plots on leasehold. The estate was laid out over 9 acres split into thirty-two 0.25 acre plots. The plot size was considered large enough to provide a family with vegetables for a year. Houses had been constructed on twenty-eight of the plots by 1857. The estate remains virtually intact: only one plot has been subsequently re- developed. Legibility is however, invisible as the previous agricultural landscape cannot be discerned. The plots are shown as laid out by 1851-4