Foxhill estate was laid out and construction began in the late 1930s although completion was delayed by world war 2. It consisted mostly of semi-detached housing, arranged in geometric street patterns. The plot of land was mostly sandwiched between two former turnpike roads- Halifax Road and Foxhill Road. Prior to the estate, the area was largely rural containing scattered farmsteads such as Foxhill farm. The fields were probably created through piecemeal enclosure of the marshy Birley Carr. Legibility is invisible.