Geometric planned estate built by the council as improved colliery workers housing for the large numbers of mines in the surrounding area. Prior to the housing this was an area of semi regular fields that were probably enclosed from cleared woodland in the post-medieval period, some areas of woodland survived until the early 20th century. The layout of the housing mostly overwrites the former field pattern but the main roads through the area follow the route of earlier roads so legibility of the past landscape is fragmentary.