Character area first described within the Nether Edge Conservation Area Appraisal (SCC, 2002). Much of this area was first laid out after the purchase of Nether Edge Farm (the 17th century farmhouse of which is incorporated within the Brincliffe Oaks Hotel), and Upper Edge Farm (destroyed) by the Reform Freehold Building Society in 1853. This 'Land Society' (serving to allow the collective purchase of estates which could then be divided up between members who paid for their plots in instalments -see Harman and Minnis, 2004 p282) laid out plots, roads, footpaths, sewers and pumps before being taken over by the Montgomery Land Society in 1861 (SCC, 2004 p59). The layout preserves a number of the earlier field boundaries between the piecemeal 'enclosed strip pattern of the earlier farm'. The estate stretches from the Brincliffe Edge escarpment in the south to Byron and Glen Road in the north. The housing is typical of 'Land Society' estates with a wide variety of sizes and designs represented. Unity is gained from the regular street pattern, a strong building line along most streets, and a unity of scale and materials (ibid.). There is some later high density flats dating to the mid twentieth century notably Nether Court, Fountside, and Oakdale Court on Oakdale Road. Some fragments of the pre-urban landscape preserved.