This area retains exceptional continuity between its present suburban residential form its rural form as depicted on detailed maps from 1835 (Sanderson) onwards, with most of the field boundaries as well as pre-existing routes (Dore Road laid out to link the new Station c.1870 with the village and Water Lane) preserved within the present form as property boundaries and roads. Where old field boundaries are fossilised the 1999 aerial photography shows a rich network of mature trees and hedges that have probably outgrown from ancient hedgerows. Also surviving from the pre-suburban environment is the group of former farm buildings at Ashfurlong Farm - not depicted by Sanderson in 1835 but apparent on the 1877 25 inch survey of Derbyshire. The extension of Dore Road appears to have stimulated the development of large suburban villas along this road with a number of the large, low density villas present by 1898. This process accelerated in the first half of the twentieth century with the urban sprawl of this part of Dore moving southwards with further, slightly less grand low density villas built in the 1920s and 30s along Ashfurlong Road and Cavendish Avenue. Large properties and 'Woodland' almshouses along Abbeydale Road frontage. The remaining developments in the south western part of this polygon continued the established pattern of low density development with the infilling of land in the Burlington / Devonshire Road area in the 1960s and 1970s. Partial legibility of pre-suburban enclosure boundaries.