Grid iron terraced housing built between 1891 (lower end of Valley Road already present by 1891) and 1905 (by which time all of the streets within this polygon had been laid out on a grid iron pattern the principal streets of which follow the southern side of the Meersbrook valley. 1877 25 inch Derbyshire OS shows this area as enclosed land lying between the hamlet of Norton Lees, Meersbrook Park and the Meersbrook.