Greenhill is known from history documents from at least 1176 when it is mentioned in the documents detailing the establishment of Beauchief Abbey. After 1300 it was granted entirely to the abbey. (Olive 1981) The main elements of the plan form within this area (which includes the entire Greenhill Conservation Area in addition to surviving open burgage plots to the north of the village outside the CA), are Greenhill main road and a large number of boundaries which are traceable back to at least the 1804-5 Enclosure plan of the village by W & J Fairbank and probably survive from the medieval period. This map, studied by Martin Olive whilst at Sheffield City Libraries in the early 1980s (Olive 1981) shows a classic medieval plan consisting of a linear settlement along a sinuous main street with long narrow 'burgage' plots radiating away from the street at right angles. At the eastern extent of the village the main road turns abruptly to the right (now called school lane) a route that appears to have been formalised at the time of parliamentary enclosure around the edge of the former village green. A number of 16th -19th century buildings survive this area includes 10 listed buildings, 5 of which are also included on the sites and monuments record and include timber framed building soft both post and truss and cruck framed types. Changes since the 1960s in Greenhill have been significant with most of the burgage plots to the south of main street being developed as semi detached and detached private estates and demolition of 'clearance areas' of smaller higher density vernacular cottages. Significant legibility of medieval planned nucleated settlement.