Grid iron development on former farmland (piecemeal enclosures). The majority of the housing is of typical bylaw terrace construction although some later parts (e.g. between Blayton and Kirton Roads) is of typical early council semi detached construction. The street plan pays little attention to the earlier field boundaries and is therefore recorded as having little legibility. Nb. SMR 888 records Derbyshire Ware pottery (2nd - 3rd century Roman Greyware) and silver coins found in one of the foundation trenches of the houses on Scott Road in 1906) (SMR record card).