This area is shown as a fully developed suburb of rigid grid iron terraces by 1891. Only the imposing Victorian terraced houses (which rise in places to an unusual (for Sheffield) three storeys in places) along Abbeydale Road and a smaller group along Hale Street, survived wholesale clearance of smaller terraced housing within this polygon between 1976 and 1984. The cleared housing was replaced by small semi detached units. No legibility of earlier types. Abbeydale Road built as a 'turnpike road' in 1803 across the 'Broad Field' a probable former open field, the sinuous interior boundaries of which are shown on the 1851 OS possibly suggesting postmedieval piecemeal enclosure.