The landholdings were acquired by the Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust as part of 300 acres on a 999-year lease from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. Falloden Way and the ‘Holms’ were developed from 1913 onwards.

Sutcliffe laid out the three culs-de-sac, Eastholm, Midholm and Westholm. Midholm was built just before his death in 1915 and the three formed, for some years, an isolated spur of the older Suburb.

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