These large stone built villas, mostly detached or very large semi detached all sit within spacious mature grounds. Many of the mature trees will be survivals from enclosure period boundaries. The Kelk map of 1764 shows very straight enclosure in this area indicating that it may have been previously open land. The northern most enclosure was called 'Pennyless Balk Close' indicating 'unproductive boundary land' (Field 1972). Most of this polygon lies to the south of this enclosure in unnamed surveyed plots which probably lay on Rotherham Moor. The enclosure period boundaries seem to have been used to define the plots sold off by landowners for development as they continue to form subdivisions within the present plots.