Terraced Housing provided with gardens, back passages and nearby to a contemporary Baptist Chapel. Appears between 1904 and 1930 OS revisions but likely to be first wave of housing provided for workers of the Bullcroft Collier sunk between 1907 and 1910. Originally provided with large area of allotment gardens to the south (redeveloped as housing between 1959 and 1982). Placename 'Hobcroft' meaning 'land covered with tussocky grass' (Field 1972; Scheduled Ancient Monument p105) although this placename is not shown on earlier OS maps and may be an invention of the developer.