Modern housing estate (first depicted on 1978 maps) associated with the mining industry in the area. Built on an area of irregular piecemeal enclosure of former commons. The outlying farms around the town are likely to date from the 12th to 14th century built on areas of commons and waste (Sykes 1993, 240-241). There is fragmentary legibility of these enclosed fields in the boundaries of the estate, which retain their former shape, but all internal field patterns have been overwritten by the housing.