Large suburban estate of semi detached houses in generous gardens with frequent trees. This polygon shows the portion of the estate described as HSY1916 that was shown until its construction as part of Ecclesall Woods. The 1851 OS shows this area characterised by small piecemeal enclosures. This area was probably heavily wooded before its clearance and enclosure at an uncertain date before the 1788 enclosure award. The enclosure plan drawn by Wm. Fairbank to illustrate the parliamentary award for Ecclesall (Fairbank 1788) shows that the only unenclosed land dealt with by the award was a narrow ribbon of common land along the route of 'Milnhouses Lane'. The course of this route is closely related to a geological band of mudstone and shale between the 'Loxley Edge' Crawshaw' sandstones (as shown on British Geological Survey 1974 sheet 100). The mudstones and shales that lie between the Coal Measure Sandstones weather more readily than the harder sandstone bands. It is likely that it is the underlying geology that made this land less suitable for early enclosure. The thin narrow band of common was probably the main route of communication between the medieval chapel at Banner Cross and the medieval Ecclesall Corn Mill on the Sheaf to the south. It is likely that this route became formalised on Enclosure. Button Hill is also shown as a pre-existing route between the common land along 'Holt House [Carter Knowle] Road' and 'Milnhouse Lane'. The intersection of these roads is marked by a small hamlet on both the Enclosure plan and the 1851 OS. This hamlet was demolished around the time of construction of the present housing. The remaining roads in the polygon were laid out at the time of its suburbanisation and do not tend to fossilise earlier routes although the roads between Whirlow Dale Crescent and Abbeydale Road continue the distinctive pattern of tree lined curving crescents and grid iron infill of the earlier Edwardian portion of Millhouses (HSY 1914). Legibility of earlier landscapes is no more than fragmentary and consists of the preserved earlier routes and occasional trees preserved in the re-landscaping scheme.