 By the end of the 1930s the urban spread of Kirk Ella had begun to expand westwards along West Ella Road.By the end of the 1940s this growth had reached West Ella, with substantial garden houses all along the south side of West Ella Road between the two villages; new housing had been developed in West Ella at the west and east ends, also of a substantial nature of detached houses with large gardens.By the 1960s a new road and housing estate had been built north of the original village