 Between 1938  and 1952, private houses were built on the north side of Barwick Road, between Stanks Lane South and the Cock Beck.In a boundary change on 1 April 1937, Whinmoor was added to the Leeds County Borough from the Tadcaster Rural District.In 1953, "The Civil Engineer" reported that Leeds City Council paid Myton Ltd from Kingston upon Hull, £227,232 "for the erection of 172  dwellings on the Swarcliffe (Seacroft) Estate".