Shady Grove was in the early 19th century an old track, leading to a holding to which a farmhouse was added during the century, which came to be known eventually as Moorhouse Farm. The track is shown on the early inclosure map, sited in the middle of ‘old inclosures’ on both sides. It was given its present name in the 1871 census, when about 12 identified households had it as an address, though early OS maps show fewer buildings, so there are not likely to have been as many houses as households. Development seems to have been spasmodic. There was a terrace of 4 – probably nos. 2 to 8 – at the foot of the Grove in 1875, and by the century’s end only nos. 2 to 28 on the west side and 3 to 19 on the east.
