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Todmorden Road, a de facto eastern boundary of Burnley Wood, looking northIn the sixteenth-century, as the name suggests, the area was mostly covered by rough moorland and woodland, with a scattering of farmsteads on the outskirts of the Burnley.

These included Whittaker Farm, at the junction of the present day Hufling Lane and Todmorden Road ; Mosely Farm in what is now Glebe Street ; Hollingreave House, at the junction of Brunswick Street and Hollingreave Road ; and Hufling Hall.

This late seventeenth century farmhouse still remains and is a grade II listed building and is sandwiched between late nineteenth century housing.

Todmorden Road, became a turnpike road in 1817 and became a route of the Burnley Corporation Tramway in 1910.

From 1673 to 1819, the majority of Burnley Wood was glebe land in the ownership of St Peter's Church, and as such could not be developed.

However, by 1825, as Burnley began to expand rapidly as a burgeoning cotton manufacturing town spurred on by the completion of the Leeds and Liverpool canal in 1801, back-to-back, cottages and mills began to develop along the canal at Lane Bridge around Finsley Gate.

Between 1825 and 1844 Spring Gardens Mill, together with back-to-back cottages, were built between Plumbe Street and Eastgate ( now Yorkshire Street ) and coal mining also began to take place on the north bank of the River Calder between Plumbe Street and Oxford Road.