Terraced housing first mapped to this extent in 1906 although some properties built by 1894. The housing developed along the turnpiked road which ran through Birdwell Common. There has been some later infilling behind properties but mostly the area has retained its character. Built on an area of surveyed enclosure of former common. Most of this land was probably enclosed as part of the Worsbrough parliamentary award of 1826 (date from English 1985). There is fragmentary legibility of the enclosures as some field boundaries are respected by the housing.