Planned estate of social housing built to geometric design. The area is shown as fields with regular straight edges prior to this. The fields were enclosed as part of the Hallam enclosure award which was granted in 1791 and enacted by 1805. The area is marked as 'Stannington Wood' on early OS maps. Scurfields reconstruction of Harrison's 1637 survey suggests the area was wooded but held in common. It seems unlikely that a whole wood was cleared during enclosure and the area was probably deforested over a period time whilst still being used for common grazing. Legibility of the former landscape is invisible.