it was then the landowning families—the rosses, the crompton-stansfields and the wainmans—took advantage of the demand for housing by selling their less productive land on low moor and high moor. houses for the better off were built in sunny bank and hall royd in the 1840s, 1850s and 1860s. kirkgate was lined with villas from the 1860s, some of which still stand. middle-class houses were built in the nab wood and moorhead districts. in 1870 a tranche of land in moorhead was sold by the countess of rosse to build five streets of terraces. the public house on saltaire roundabout that bears her name dates from that time.