Private housing estate of detached houses shown on 1989 maps. Built on area of previous enclosed strip fields of Roughbirchworth. These fields were probably enclosed quite late as the common fields are referred to by name in 1618 (Hey 2002, 32). Some of the field boundaries are preserved in the layout of the garden hedges indicating that the land was probably built up in stages with the developer buying one field at a time. This gives partial legibility of the enclosed landscape. Within this polygon was the Oxspring goods halt on the railway. It opened in 1845 but was closed in 1847 this probably stopped Oxspring from developing as large an industrial area compared with Penistone.