A large planned estate built to a geometric design to house colliery workers at the nearby Markham Main. The colliery began production in 1924 and the housing is probably contemporary with this date. Prior to this, the area was agricultural. The 1st edition OS map depicts a series of thin strip fields labelled as 'North Field', a probable former open town field. The strip fields resulted from consolidation of the furlongs of the open field over time. Legibility of the former character is invisible.