The earliest housing development in this area is along Avenue Road. It is depicted on the 1894 OS map and consists of detached and semi-detached villas with large gardens. The other villas are mostly constructed by 1930. The area lies within the Thorne Road conservation area. Prior to this, the area was agricultural. It consisted of thin strip fields consolidated over time from the furlongs of open fields. Legibility of the former landscape is invisible.