This area of the council estate at Longley Park (built in the early 1930s) was once the pleasure gardens of John Booth III's Brush House mansion. T. E. Johnson's "The Brushes Story" (Johnson 1979) records that John Booth enclosed the Brushes Common and laid out pleasure gardens bounded by an oval of trees. The line of this oval is fossilised by the road 'The Oval' within the newer estate. Fragmentary legibility from the fossilised pattern of the oval. SMR 639 record the find in the 1920s of the top of a rotary quern typologically dated to the late Iron age / Romano British period and indicative of nearby settlement activity.