An area containing a mix of some terraced and detached housing but dominated by semi-detached. The roads and plots are shown as mostly laid out in a grid-iron pattern by 1892, ready for speculative development. However, little development appears to take place until after the second world war. The plots were probably laid out for a freehold land society that never gained sufficient members. During the early medieval period the area was probably wooded. Walkley Bank is recorded as an oak woodland into the 17th century. Piecemeal enclosure of the woodlands resulted in a landscape of dispersed farming settlements until the mid 19th century. Legibility of the earlier landscape is invisible.