Fast forwarding to the OS 25 inch map published in 1898 (actual revision 1894-1895) and there are a few more houses on St Giles Hill, St Johns Rd, and Highcliff have been built. Also, there was a chalk quarry and lime works in an area that we now call the sunny slope. Below St Giles Hill there was a railway station known at the time as Cheesehill Station. A railway tunnel passed under St Giles Hill emerging in Winnall. This undoubtedly helped push the development of St Giles Hill as a residential area.

Another point of interest is that the old St Giles Hill Graveyard that occupies a position near the top of the hill has been extended down to the Alresford Road, more than doubling its size.

St Giles Hill Graveyard 1894/5. Image from Ordinance Survey 25 inches to the mile published 1897 - Sheets XLI13 and XLI14

St Giles Hill Graveyard was the main burial place in the St Peters Cheesehill and St Johns parish areas and clergy from both churches are buried there. A look at the people buried in the graveyard gives an idea of the social makeup of Winchesters Eastern Soke.