The placename 'Backmoor' given to a linear hamlet along Backmoor Road on the 1877 6 inch OS map of Derbyshire and the 'surveyed' straight nature of this road suggests a probable parliamentary enclosure date for this area. The only obvious survival of this hamlet is 'The Nail maker's Arms', which may date in part to the 19th century. Presently mostly 1930s semi detached housing. Much of Backmoor hamlet demolished in 1960s and replaced with social housing. The origin of the moorland landscape is uncertain though this area is likely to have been moorland by the Roman period (see Bevan 2003 for discussion of environmental evidence).