This area developed as a commercial shopping 'high street' for the late 19th century industrial settlement of Stocksbridge. Significant early survivals such as Victorian and Edwardian Shops and banks an early 20th century cinema and a bowling club. Significant late 20th century clearance and rebuilding including a 'shed' type supermarket at the centre of the town. No legibility of the landscape shown on the 1850s on which the valley is characterised by piecemeal enclosure and dispersed farmsteads.