First depicted on the 1935 OS it is unclear if this development of semi detached housing represents a private development or a municipal development. The estate was constructed within 'strip' type piecemeal enclosures which the 1851 OS shows were part of an semi regular system of enclosure set out at 90 degrees to Gleadless Road. At this point the strips were behind settlement activity at the 19th century village of Gleadless and the development area respected the edge of this older but now largely demolished phase. It is possible that the layout depicted before the urbanisation of this area developed as a result of the enclosure of an older 'townfield' by the piecemeal removal of blocks of adjacent strips from the 'common' field system. Fragmentary legibility of historic boundaries at the edges of this phase of development.