This area was developed as terraced housing and shops in the later 19th and earlier 20th century but cleared between 1967 and 1985 as part of a scheme to improve the road junction between Broadfield Road (formerly Rufford Road) and Abbeydale Road. Currently open space and play equipment. Small irregular enclosures shown on 1851 6 inch OS with lots of trees in the field boundaries. Likely to have developed as valley floor meadows adjacent to the river Sheaf. No legibility of earlier uses.