The present fabric of this small hamlet dates principally from the 16th - 19th centuries and "contains a number of exceptionally fine traditional buildings. . . The hamlet has changed little since the 19th century and remains a very attractive close-knit group of buildings in local stone on the hillside above the Upper Don Valley" (from SCC 1977, 1) SMR references record 3 cruck built buildings in this area which often date to the 15th- 17th centuries. Placename first recorded in 1209 (Smith 1961, 222). Townfields inferred by Scurfield (1986) from reconstruction of Harrison's 1637 survey to the north west of the village. Significant legibility of earlier building phases within extremely well preserved hamlet.