Private housing first marked on 1990 maps. Developed partly in a piecemeal fashion on the west edge of Royston on an area of former allotments. Prior to the development of the allotments this land as still an open part of the medieval townfield that was still being farmed in strips in 1845 (see copy of map in ASWYAS 2002). There is fragmentary legibility of the enclosures as the former road pattern survives.