The streets which make up this polygon were developed in two main phases within the surveyed enclosure plots of the former Gleadless Common (probably enclosed as part of the parliamentary award for Handsworth in 1808 (English 1985, 63 for date). With the exception of the housing along Ridgeway Road (which was laid out between 1923 and 1935) the developments retain and fossilise most of the boundaries shown on the 1851 OS, the existing land divisions perhaps serving as the units by which the land was allocated to different speculative developers. Development complete to present layout by 1973 with frequent infill plots of later housing. Partial legibility of earlier parliamentary enclosure landscape.