The most significant area with scattered housing periods is the area of Parkland.

Because of the long housing period very close attention at lambing was possible resulting in very few losses.

It became residential in the post war housing period in the late 1940s and 50s, when farmland was subdivided.

The district was one of the first to be built in the (mainly) private housing period of the development of Milton Keynes.

Having achieved a degree of fertility, the calves will then be born at a time of reduction in nutritional inputs, and also at the outset of a housing period with all its attendant disease factors.