This area, which approximates to the site of the large hamlet of 'Upper Heeley' as depicted by Sanderson in 1795 and the Ordnance Survey in 1851, has experienced a number of rebuilding episodes. Thomas Jefferys' map of 1775 shows this area as a triangular common surrounded on its periphery with housing. It is likely that this common land extended along Gleadless Road for some small distance and is the 'Heeley Green' referred to in the present placename. The layout depicted by Sanderson and the Ordnance Survey is most likely to date to the Parliamentary Enclosure of Hallam (this area was once a detached portion of the township of 'Nether Hallam') which took place in 1805 (English 1985, 62). Parliamentary awards of similar small commons formalise the routes of roads and formally define development plots along the new road frontages. The layout shown by the OS in 1891 and until the early 1970s shows the area as filled by dense terraces of courtyard dwellings and later 'bylaw' housing. By 1985 the present housing which fossilises few features of earlier developments was in place. Fragmentary legibility of the areas development provided by the retention of the now discontinuous road 'Heeley Green'.