The majority of the buildings to the north of Worthing Road are first depicted on 1923 OS plans and include a spring works, scissor works, and foundry. None of the buildings are in their original use and many have lost significant amounts of early buildings. To the south of Worthing road the buildings are mostly post war in origin. The 1891 OS shows most of this area as clay pits for a brickworks situated at approximately SK37308805. Prior to its industrialisation at the centre of this polygon lay Woodbourn Farm.