Large detached and semi-detached housing first depicted on the 1935 25 inch OS map. Prior to this the area is largely rural in character. The fields were regular in size and had straight edges, indicative of parliamentary enclosure and were probably enclosed as part of the Upper Hallam enclosure award of 1791. The award was enacted in 1805. The Fairbanks plan of 1795 shows an area with different characteristics, possibly resulting from the enclosure of medieval open fields into strips. The area has been identified as possibly being part of the medieval town fields of the village of Hallam (Scurfield 1986, 165). Legibility is invisible.