This polygon records part of the Skelton municipal housing development (see HSY 1518 and 1522) for full description of present type). This part of the estate has been recorded separately to highlight the probable ancient settlement area of the village. On older maps Handsworth Woodhouse (the name of which indicates a satellite settlement in the woods) exhibits a number of features typical of known medieval planned villages such as narrow plots perpendicular to sinuous main roads, with houses lining the street frontage with a long 'garden' plot to the rear ('burgage plots'); a 'back lane' providing access to fields behind burgage plots; and a surrounding networks of large fields divided up into blocks of adjacent strips. This polygon broadly marks an area of burgage plots - the southern boundary of the unit representing the course of the former Back Lane. N.B. this 'back lane boundary is presently invisible due to over development at the time of the construction of this estate. This polygon shows an area of Buildings included within the polygon in 1891 included a malthouse, cottages, Sunday school and nurseries and orchards. Along the western end of the northern boundary of the polygon Tannery Street follows its historic course along the street frontage of these burgage plots until the junction with Market Street, where it has been diverted through the former sites of buildings on construction of this estate. Invisible legibility of earlier types. Archaeological potential within this polygon is unknown and may be significant outside the footprint of later buildings.