Late twentieth century retail shopping and commercial area constructed following wholesale clearance of mid and early 19th century terraced housing. Historic map evidence shows that this area first developed as market gardens, themselves set into earlier strip enclosures. The access lanes relating to these gardens (shown on the 1786 Corporation plan of the town reproduced in Ford 2006), appear to have provided the basis for later residential development, with suburban development well underway throughout the area by 1828 (see Hunter 1828, plan p. xxx). No legibility of the area survives in the present landscape, which was largely rewritten at redevelopment with only two or three street retaining earlier routes.