This area of grid iron terracing first appears between 1905 and 1923 on the 25 inch OS plan series. The legibility of Grimesthorpe as a historic settlement has been somewhat diminished by clearance within its core area (the triangle of roads to the immediate south west of this polygon). There is no legibility of the pre urban landscape which from the evidence of historic mapping seems to have been characterised by a pattern of piecemeal enclosures.