Although the majority of the present detached housing within this area date to between the 1923 and 1938 Ordnance Survey editions, there is partial legibility of an earlier hamlet in this location surrounding a lost water powered site from which it is presumed the placename 'The Wheel' relates. The earliest known record of this placename dates to 1771 (Smith, 1961pt1, 252). Miller (1949, 95) recorded that "the remains of a mill dam and wheel race are still to be seen, the latter being in good condition " and that "there are the remains of a foundry nearby" however no known proven documentary records for the site are known. Earlier buildings surviving include the listed 269 Wheel Lane (late 18th century) a linear building at 348 (shown 1851) and two short blocks of stone fronted terraces. The junction of Wheel Lane and Cinder Lane is probably of some antiquity a medieval cross base being recorded at this location by SMR PRN167.