Historic core of this settlement. Described by Magilton as "an almost perfect example of a street village with its houses straggling along the A614, principally to the east of it. The surviving buildings here appear exclusively of brick" (1977, 7). The buildings listed by Magilton, the majority of which date to the eighteenth century, and the straight and regular boundary patterns may indicate the influence of the 1767 Enclosure Award which enclosed the former 'Town Field' to the west and the former Low Common to the east of the settlement. The existence of an earlier settlement in the same area can be shown by the documentary references from 1379, a number of timber framed survivals and a probable early Norman church (ibid) the latter two providing fragmentary legibility of previous historic settlement activity.