Bog House Farm is shown on the Ordnance Survey First Edition map as a range of buildings aligned NE-SW with an additional building, possibly a barn, to the west. The depiction of the farm on mapping over the following century did not change substantially, and it was demolished in the latter part of the 20th century.

Eighton Lodge is shown on the first edition Ordnance Survey map as a detached house set within its own grounds, with a carriageway giving onto the Newcastle to Durham Road (HER4125) to the southwest. It forms the southwestern part of the village of Low Eighton (HER661). The two storey stone building is now a residential care home. It was formerly an unmarried mother and baby home in the 1970s and 1980s.

Hotch Pudding is shown on the Ordnance Survey First Edition map as a quadrangle of buildings around a courtyard with a gin-gang on the northwest side. Subsequent mapping shows no substantial changes to the farm in the later 19th century and first half of the 20th century. The farmstead and surrounding fields were developed for housing in the later 20th century.

Blackhall Mill is first shown on Armstrong's map of County Durham, published by Thomas Jeffreys in 1768. This is a small hamlet of approximately three cottages on the north bank of the River Derwent. The hamlet is not named on Greenwood's map of County Durham, surveyed between 1818 and 1819, but the paper mill (HER 3406) is shown. 'BlackHall Mills' is labelled on the 1840 Hobson map of County Durham which shows a small nucleated settlement along the river bank with a few outlying buildings and the paper mill to the east.

By the time of the Ordnance Survey First Edition of 1862, surveyed in 1856, Blackhall Mill is a small settlement or farmstead comprising three buildings north of the River Derwent. By 1895, Blackhall Mill expanded along the northern bank with the addition of a school and chapel as well as several other buildings. This expansion continued into the 20th century into the 20th century with the development of terraces as shown on the third edition Ordnance Survey.

Spen is noted in the map of County Durham in Volume V of Blaeu's Atlas Maior, published between 1662 and 1665, referring to a settlement on the banks of the Derwent within a wooded area (likely Spen Bank). High Spen is first shown on Armstrong's map of County Durham, published by Thomas Jeffreys in 1768, north-west of Low Spen within Spen Bank. Both settlements appear to be very small hamlets in the 18th century and this trend continues into the 19th century as shown in the Greenwood map of County Durham, surveyed between 1818 and 1819.

High Spen is shown as a small linear hamlet along the road of approximately three cottages in both the Greenwood and Hobson maps (the latter published in 1840). Although the Hobson map of County Durham does show the nearby Garesfield Colliery and its associated waggonway to Derwenthaugh. By the time of the Ordnance Survey First Edition of 1862, surveyed in 1857, High Spen is bounded by the colliery to the north but appears to comprise a cluster of farmsteads and associated buildings with a small public house. By 1894, High Spen expanded significantly north of the colliery with the addition of several rows of terraced houses, Methodist Chapel and Sunday School, as well as another public house. This expansion continued into the 20th century.

Although Stargate Colliery (HER 3319) was sunk c.1800, the village itself was not built until late in the 19th century after the pit was acquired by the Stella Coal Company. The houses themselves likely date to c. 1870-1880 as they are first depicted on the second edition Ordnance Survey (surveyed 1894-1895, published 1898), but this would set it as broadly contemporary with the Wesleyan Chapel was built in 1877 and the Brickworks (HER 8501) established in 1874.

While Greenside (HER 19107) is depicted on earlier mapping, High Greenside was first identified on the Ordnance Survey First Edition of 1862, surveyed in 1856. High Greenside is a farmstead off the main road which appears to comprise an east-west range of buildings surrounded by fields. Evidence of narrow ridge and furrow cultivation has been identified in aerial photographs to the north of the farm buildings which indicates a post-medieval origin for the farm. However, the farm appears to have been demolished between 1895 and 1914 with the current farmhouse and cricket ground on the site today.

While Greenside (HER 19107) is depicted on earlier mapping, Low Greenside and High Greenside are first identified on the Ordnance Survey First Edition of 1862, surveyed in 1857. Low Greenside is a small nucleated hamlet south of the fork leading to Crawcrook to the west and Woodside to the east. Though possibly agricultural, the two quarry pits north-east of the houses indicate the possible reason for the establishment of this small settlement.

Greenside is first depicted on Armstrong's map of County Durham, published by Thomas Jeffreys in 1768 as a small settlement along the road between Ryton and 'Coal Burn'. The Greenwood map of County Durham, surveyed between 1818 and 1819, marks Greenside as a hamlet or village dispersed across the road to the north of Long Row and Cadger Row. The subsequent Hobson map of 1840 marks Greenside as south of Long Row and Cadger Row.

The Ordnance Survey First Edition of 1862, surveyed in 1856 depicts the village as a broadly linear along Sandy Lane but focused around the crossroads where the roads from High Folly, New Kyo and Coal Burns join together. The engine pond to the south and the B. Pit on the map demonstrate the reason for the village's expansion in the mid 19th century but there appears to be evidence of farmsteads associated with the village.

The Greenwood map of County Durham, surveyed between 1818 and 1819, marks Woodside as a township with a substantial common at its centre. This was depicted more clearly on on the Ordnance Survey First Edition of 1862, surveyed in 1857, as 'Woodside Common' and on the subsequent editions. Aerial photographs taken in the 1940s show post-medieval narrow ridge and furrow earthworks. More recent aerial photography, taken primarily in the 1990s, shows that some of the earthworks are no longer extant. Some are built over and some are quarried although remnants of the sub-surface ridge and furrow was identified during a geophysical survey in 2015.