An estate consisting mostly of typical 1930s semi-detached housing, constructed in the late 1930s. Prior to the estate, the area was characterised by small irregularly shaped fields. Scattered farmstead existed and some small scale quarrying had taken place at the northeast of the area. Legibility of the pre-housing estate landscape is fragmentary. Broomfield House depicted on the 1892 OS map remains as numbers 4 and 6 Bedford Road. Also the road layout bounding the area is as depicted on the 1st edition OS map of 1855. This has constrained the fields and therefore the size of the estate. Cockshutts Lane is first mentioned in 1658 and derives from the 'woodland glade where woodcock were netted' (Smith 1961, 233)