An area of scrubland that has been incorporated into the recreation ground. Previously the site appears to have contained an early speculative private housing estate. The Fairbanks plan of 1808 first shows a group of buildings labelled 'New Town'. The large scale OS town plan of 1851 shows a range of housing types including what appears to be small formal garden. Buildings are last depicted on the site on the 1954 OS map. Archaeological potential would appear to be high considering the lack of other development on the site. Prior to housing, the site consisted of fields probably enclosed in a piecemeal fashion during the disparkment of Sheffield Park. Legibility of the previous landscape is invisible.