The first wave of surburban housing laid out along these roads (which were laid out in the 1930s) was in place to the eastern and western ends of Bannerdale Road by 1934. Other housing the result of speculative infilling in the 1970s and 1980s. This area within the more gentle slope of the Brincliffe Edge Common lands, probably historically heavily wooded common land, but between 1788 and 1934 the site of surveyed enclosures (see Fairbanks 1788 and OS maps from 1851 onwards).