Hanover Square is more a cul-de-sac than a square. Built in the late 1840s, the square consists of semi-detached and terraced housing facing each other across a somewhat overgrown communal garden. St Silas church was built in 1867. The Fairbanks plan of 1795 shows the area occupied by fields with straight and regular boundaries indicative of surveyed enclosure. Scurfields reconstruction of Harrison's survey of 1637 suggests the area was once called 'Broomall Field' and probably belonged to the Broom Hall estate. Legibility is invisible.