This polygon shows the likely core area of the former hamlet of Little Sheffield first documented as a place name in 1441 (May 2003, 2). The location of the hamlet, has been roughly digitised from the area of the small common green and its surrounding buildings as shown on the 1788 Fairbank plan that accompanied the 1788 enclosure award, which followed the act of Parliament to extinguish the common rights of Ecclesall. The stimulus for settlement around this common is likely to have been its position on the main route to the south and west out of Sheffield (either by the probable salt route to the southern Pennines, now Cemetery Road, or by the route to Chesterfield, later turnpiked as London and Chesterfield Roads). Part of the boundary of the former common seems to be preserved by the building line behind nos. 71-85, although elsewhere this boundary has been thoroughly redeveloped. Fairbanks 1808 plan (reproduced in May 2003) shows that development on the new building line along the freshly formalised road was rapid. The buildings at 71-85 probably survive from this period. Most have been seriously altered at ground level although no 85 retains much of its original appearance and some sash windows. Probably one of the oldest terraced houses surviving in Sheffield. On the opposite side of the road, nos 46 -110 are mostly pre-1851 and a number may survive from this earlier period. The trapezoidal plot presently occupied by garages at Cross Walk fossilizes the location, if none of the fabric, of a court of small 'one room deep' terraces. Partial legibility of post-enclosure buildings on the site of a historic hamlet. Significant archaeological potential.