Few houses remain from Ratten Row which was built to house miners at the local collieries. The houses are first mapped in 1855 but this type of isolated terraced housing built to house colliery workers date from 1790 onwards (Hey 1986, 221). The buildings remained till 1965 but by 1978 most had been knocked down the remaining property is a heavily altered amalgamation of several terraced houses knocked together. This was an area of assarted woodland, the origins of which are uncertain. Because most of the housing is now farmland again the legibility of this landscape is partial.