This area remained largely undeveloped until semi-detached housing was constructed in the 1930s. Shortly before this, some of the land was given over to allotments and some quarried (Lydgate Lane playground), but it remains rural in character. As with the surrounding terraced housing, the layout of the housing fossilises the previous agricultural landscape. The enclosed strips, derived from the medieval open fields, were sold off in compartments and the speculative development of housing followed the line of the old strips. The houses are in the area of the medieval open fields called 'Truswell' and 'Lydgate'. Legibility is partial as the previous open field landscape has heavily influenced the development of this area.