Local amenities include three schools, a 31.8 acres (12.87 ha) park,[4] three pubs, three supermarkets, three churches, several restaurants and cafés and numerous small shops.

Dore & Totley is the nearest railway station Residential development was in a fan-shape focused on the junction of Abbeydale Road and Millhouses Lane.

During the Industrialisation era and the ever growing expansion of the City of Sheffield, the boundary moved further south in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

The area was deep within Northumbria for most of the 600 years of the kingdoms existence, which ended due to invasions by the West-Saxons of present day Southern England and soon after by the Normans.

[10] In 1805 a turnpike road was built from Sheffield to Bakewell (now Abbeydale Road),[5] this passed through the area and led to some growth, but it was only with the extension of the Midland Main Line through the valley in 1870 (with a railway station at Millhouses) and the subsequent arrival of trams in 1902 that Millhouses began to develop as an affluent residential suburb.

[14] The Robin Hood and Wagon and Horses public houses are amongst the neighborhood's older surviving buildings, both dating from earlier than 1822.

[15] Between Abbeydale Road South and the River Sheaf lies a mile-long public park, with a mixture of green spaces, planted areas and leisure facilities.