First depicted on the 1953 OS this municipal estate is of one clear design with separate clearly defined areas for housing (of one main semidetached design), sheltered housing (Smelter Road Flats), and shopping (77-93 Stradbroke Drive). Later 1970s infill between Smelter Wood Drive and Smelter Wood Road consists of the Ravenscourt care home and Smelter Wood Court flats. Good example of 1950s housing. There is no legibility of the earlier agricultural landscape. The 1851 OS and Sanderson's 1837 map show this area as part of a very clear semi regular pattern of strip fields around the nucleated settlement Woodhouse (sometimes referred to as Handsworth Woodhouse). Probably part of an open field system.