Car showroom and council car park on the site of terraced housing and shops built in the later 19th and earlier twentieth century but cleared between 1967 and 1985 as part of a scheme to improve the road junction between Broadfield Road (formerly Rufford Road) and Abbeydale Road. Small irregular enclosures shown on 1851 6 inch OS with lots of trees in the field boundaries. Likely to have developed as valley floor meadows adjacent to the river Sheaf. No legibility of earlier uses.