This industrial estate was developed on land cleared in the late 1930s. The land had previously accommodated a large estate of prefabricated houses erected during the first world war to house munitions workers (many of whom were émigré Belgians) - see SMR 4354. First edition OS shows this plot, which to the north is bounded by the Roman Ridge earthwork, enclosed by not quite straight field boundaries, suggesting a pattern of piecemeal enclosure. Partial legibility of this earlier landscape is given by the Roman Ridge.