Area within the ring road which is dominated by warehousing and sorting offices dating from the mid 20th century. In the 1840s there were weaving cottages within this area with most buildings having between 2 and 5 looms per cottage. (Taylor 1995, 43). These would have been linen weaving cottages with basement workshops. The streets round here were laid out by the surveyor John Whitworth in c.1838 on an area of irregular enclosure probably assarted from woodland at an early date. The former grid iron road plan survives giving partial legibility of the pas landscape.