SHEFFIELD:
Sheffield description, 1852
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SHEFFIELD PARISH: OUT-TOWNSHIPS, 1852
ATTERCLIFFE-CUM-DARNALL township occupies a triangular area
of 1336½ acres, and a population of 4871 souls. It includes the villages of
Attercliffe and Darnall, the hamlet of Carbrook, a number of scattered
dwellings, the Park Iron Works, and Sunderland Moor;-distant from one
to three miles E. and S.E. of Sheffield. It is intersected by the Sheffield and
Tinsley Canal ; and the Lincolnshire Railway has a station at Darnall. The
Duke of Norfolk is lord of the manor, and impropriator ; but the soil belongs
to Earl Fitzwilliam and a number of freeholders, except Darnall,
which forms a small manor, of which the heir of the late Gen. Spencer is
lord. The common and waste lands were enclosed in 1811, when many of
the ancient footpaths were closed. The ancient chapelry of
Attercliffe-cum-Darnall, formerly comprised the township of Brightside Bierlow,
but it is now separated into five ecclesiastical divisions, under Peel's act.
Darnall was gazetted as a church district in 1844; and the Wicker, Brightside,
and Pitsmoor,in 1845.
ATTERCLIFFE, the largest village in the parish of Sheffield, is on the
Doncaster and Worksop roads, 1½ mile E. of the Market place. It is about
three quarters of a mile in length, and many of its inhabitants are employed
in the manufacture of pen and pocket knives, scissors, anvils, scythes,
spades, shovels, cast steel, &c. The old chapel of ease, at the eastern
extremity of the village, was built in 1629; but it is now only used for
sepulchral purposes, having an extensive burial ground. The inhabitant
now assemble for divine worship in Christ Church, a handsome Gothic
fabric, with lancet windows, a profusion of stained glass, and a handsomely
groined roof. This church, built at the expence of £14,000, granted by
Parliament, stands near the bold cliff which overhangs the Don, and is said
to have been formerly the resort of otters, from which circumstance the
village had its name. The first stone was laid by the Duke of Norfolk,
assisted by Earl Fitzwilliam, on Oct. 30, 1822; and the church was opened
July 26th, 1826. Attercliffe Ecclesiastical District comprises the village
and suburbs of Attercliffe, which comprise about 3000 inhabitants, and are
rapidly encreasing; many new houses have been erected during the past
year. The perpetual curacy, valued in 1831, at £180, is in the patronage of
the Vicar, and incumbency of the Rev. John Blackburn, A. M. who is a
canon of York, and has held the benefice 35 years. The Independents and
Methodists have each a chapel in the village, erected about 1803, but
enlarged and mostly rebuilt in 1824 and 1832. The Town School, was built
by subscription, about 1779; and the master has, for teaching a Sunday
School, £3. 3s. yearly, from the bequest of Robert Clay, Esq., in 1786, and
£ 13. 9s. 6d. yearly from £449. 3s. 4d three per cent. stock, purchased with
£300 left by Mrs. Elizabeth Fell, in 1795. The Church Schools were enlarged
in 1841 and 1849, and are now attended by more than 300 boys,
girls, and infants. The poor have several small benefactions; and at
Darnall are four almshouses, with an allowance of 21s. and a load of coals
yearly to each inmate, from Mr. Staniforth, of Liverpool. The four old
almshouses in Attercliffe, anciently the town school, were rebuilt by the overseers,
in 1836, at the cost of about £170.
CARBROOK is a hamlet and estate, on the Rotherham road, 2½ miles E. by
N. of Sheffield, which belonged to the late Admiral Sotheron, and has an
ancient hall, formerly occupied by the Brights, and still retaining traces of
its former consequence. In one of the rooms is a curious wooden chimney-piece.
DARNALL is a scattered village, on the Worksop road, 3 miles E. of
Sheffield. Wm. Walker, the supposed executioner of Charles I., was a native of
Darnall, and died there in 1700. A small neat Church was built here in
1840-'1, at the cost of £2800 raised by subscription ; and a parochial district
has recently been allotted to it, under Sir Robert Peel's Act. The church
was not consecrated till Oct. 13, 1845. Attached to it is a National School.
The perpetual curacy, with £150 a year, is enjoyed by the Rev. W. L.
Gibson, B.A., and is in the patronage of the Crown and Archbishop alternately.
Here are two chapels, one belonging to the Wesleyans, built in 1822, and
the other to the Independents, erected in 1828. Acreshill Field (3½a) belongs
to the poor of Darnall. It is held at the yearly rent of £3. 10s, by
the Fisher family, who enclosed it from the waste many years ago.
BRIGHTSIDE BIERLOW township comprises 2680 acres, and in 1851,
had 12,039 inhabitants. It includes the villages of Grimesthorpe, Brightside,
Neepsend, Pitsmoor, and Crabtree ; the seats of New Hall, Burngreave,
Norwood, Shirecliffe, Firs Hill, Wood Hill, &c. ; the woods of Wincobank,
Hall Car, Cook, Old Park, &c. and those populous suburbs of Sheffield,
called the Wicker, Nursery, and Bridgehouses, lying on the left bank of the
Don. The only benefactions now possessed by the township are, £40 vested
with the overseers, and left by some person unknown ; and £3. 10s. yearly
from land purchased with £50 left by John Mirfield, in 1785 For these,
twelve poor children are educated in the school at Grimesthorpe, which was
built by subscription, in 1802, on land given by the Duke of Norfolk, the
lord of the manor. The Occupation Road, which leads from the Wicker to
Grimesthorpe, is studded with handsome villas ; and at the foot of it is the
STATION of the Sheffield and Rotherham and North Midland Railways,
enclosing the ivy-mantled mansion of Hall Carr, above which is the Barnsley
New Road, opened in 1837, through the sylvan dell of Burngreave, to
Pitsmoor, thus avoiding the precipitous hill of Pye-bank. From the Station in
the Bridgehouses, the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway
crosses the Wicker by a stupendous Viaduct of one large and two small
arches, of massive and beautiful masonry, to Victoria Station, formed
upon an extensive range of piers and arches on the other side of the Don.
The township of Brightside Bierlow was formerly included in the chapelry
of Attercliffe-cum-Darnall, and was without any episcopal place of
worship, till the erection of the Wicker District Church, in Nursery
street. The northern and eastern parts of the township have been
formed into two other ecclesiastical districts, called Brightside and Pitsmoor:
Christ Church, at Pitsmoor, is already noticed. It is hoped that a church
will soon be erected for Brightside District Chapelry, as Earl Fitzwilliam
has given an acre of land for the site of it and the parsonage and schools;,
and a subscription has been opened for erecting the buildings, and now
amounts to about £600.
BRIGHTSIDE is a scattered village on the Don, 3 miles E.N.E. of Sheflield.
Here are extensive iron forges, and a railway station. At a short distance,
is New Hall, erected by the late John Fell, Esq. who amassed considerable
wealth at the iron works here, and whose widow, after appropriating much
to charity, bequeathed the residue of her ample fortune to the father of the
late Richard Swallow, Esq. The lawn and pleasure grounds of New Hall,
(now occupied by John Sanderson, Esq, merchant,) are watered by the
Don, and bounded on the east by the village of Attercliffe. Near New Hall
are the extensive forge, tilt, and rolling mills belonging to Messrs. Sanderson
Brothers and Co,, who, a few years ago, greatly improved and enlarged
the works. In Brightside are the extensive steel furnaces, tilt, and rolling
mill of Messrs. Wm. Jessop and Sons.
GRIMESTHORPE lies in a picturesque situation, under the woody hill of
Wincobank, 2 miles N.E. by N. of Sheffield, and is inhabited chiefly by
grinders, and fork and shear makers. It has a Wesleyan Chapel, and two
Sunday Schools, the former a neat Gothic edifice, erected in 1833.
ECCLESALL-BIERLOW township forms the south-western portion of
the parish, lying chiefly betwixt the Sheaf and the Porter, but including a
large portion of what may properly be called the town of Sheffield. It
comprises 4180 acres, and from 1736 to 1851, it increased its population front
2352 to 24,542 souls. It includes the HAMLETS, &c., of Abbey Dale, Bents
Green, Button hill, Cherrytree hill, Greystones, Highfield, Little Common,
Little Sheffield, Mill Houses, Sharrow Moor, Sharrow Head and Vale,
Machon Bank, Upper and Nether Edge, Brincliffe Edge, Broad Oak Green,
Carter Knowl, Dobbin hill, Silver hill, Whirlow, and Whiteley Wood,
extending from the town of Sheffield to the distance of 4 miles W. and S. W.
It comprises Broomhall estate, (where many handsome stone houses have been
erected during the last ten years;) and a large portion of Crookes moor ; and
has many handsome villas and well built streets, which are amongst the best
portions of the town and suburbs; especially on and near Glossop road. The
beautiful Gothic mansion of Banner Cross was rebuilt by the late General
Murray, who, died in 1818, before the work was completely finished. This
charming sylvan retreat is now a seat of H. M. Greaves, Esq., who married
the General's neice and heiress-Miss Mary C. A. Bagshawe, daughter
of the late Rev. William Bagshawe, M. A., who resided here till his
death, about six years ago. The mansion is a much admired,
though unfinished work of Sir Jeffery Wyattville, the distinguished
architect of Windsor Castle. There is no village properly called Ecclesall,
the CHAPEL, (All Saints) now a District Church, being near Banner Cross,
on a pleasant eminence, where it was built in 1788, at the cost of £1553, on
the site of a, small ancient fabric, in which the monks of Beauchief had long
filled the pastoral office. It is a neat stone building, about three miles from
the town, and was new roofed and thoroughly repaired about ten years ago.
The Vicar of Sheffield is patron of the perpetual curacy, valued at £120;
and the Rev. W. H. Vale, M. A. has been the respected incumbent since
1819, and has a neat Parsonage House with pleasant grounds. From several
benefactions, the poor have £7. 14s yearly ; the master of Sharrow School,
£9. 10s., for eight free scholars; and the master of Broad Oak Green School,
£2 for six free scholars. Earl Fitzwilliam is lord of the manor, but a large
portion of the soil belongs to other proprietors. WHITELEYWOOD, near the
head of the delightful vale of the Porter, 4 miles S. W. of Sheffield, is a neat
mansion with extensive and well wooded grounds, but is now unoccupied,
It was the seat of the late Miss Silcock, who, in 1838, built and endowed
Fulwood Church, which stands on the opposite side of the river, in Upper
Hallam township. Ecclesall Poor Law Union is already noticed ; as also
are the Ecclesiastical Districts of Eldon street, Carver street, Broomhall,
Gillcar, and St. Mary, in this large and populous township.
NETHER HALLAM township has 1902 acres, and had 8896 inhabitants
in 1851. It includes the hamlets and suburbs of Upperthorpe, Walkley, Birkendale
View, Fir View, Malin Bridge, Hill Bridge, Hill Foot, Portmahon, Philadelphia,
and most of Owlerton, stretching from 1 to 2 miles N.N.W. ; Steel
Bank, Spring Vale, Spring Hill, Barber Nook, Crookes, & Hallamgate, 2 miles
W. by N.; Endcliffe, Lydgate, and Tapton, 2 miles W.; the populous village
of HEELEY, which is in three portions, called MIDDLE, UPPER, & NETHER
HEELEY, nearly 2 miles S.; and Newfield Green, 3 miles S. by E. of Sheffield.
CROOKES Church, dedicated to St. Thomas, is a neat Gothic building,
erected and endowed in 1810, by subscription, and now in the incumbency
of the Rev. F. Owen, M.A. Its clerical district comprises Crookes,
Crookes moor, and the neighbouring parts of the township. The School at
Crookes is endowed with land let for £22 a year; and near it is a Methodist
chapel, built in 1836, and the Hadfield Reservoir, at the head of the numer-
ous clams on Crookes moor, belonging to the Sheffield Water Works.
HEELEY is a detached member of Nether Hallam, at a considerable
distance from the rest of that township; but in ecclesiastical matters it was
constituted in 1846 a separate parish, which comprises some parts of Sheffield
Park, as already noticed. Its Church dedicated to CHRIST, stands on the
pleasant acclivity above Middle Heeley, and was consecrated August 8th,
1848. The first stone was laid November 4th, 1846. and the building was
finished at the cost of about £2630, raised by subscription, aided by a grant
from the Incorporated Society. It is a small structure of early English
architecture, and has 450 open sittings, of which 250 are free. There is room
for a gallery, if one should be required, and the chancel has a tesselated
pavement. The font is handsome, and some of the windows are enriched
with stained glass. The building is cruciform, with a short tower rising
from the north transept. The perpetual curacy has been endowed by the
Ecclesiastical Commissioners with £150 per annum, and is in the incumbency
of the Rev. H. D. Jones, B.A., and alternate patronage of the Crown
and Archbishop. Heeley has a school, endowed with about £20 per annum,
and a small Methodist Chapel, built in 1826.
UPPER HALLAM is an extensive, wild, and thinly populated township,
forming the north western portion of the parish, bounded on the north by
the Rivelin, and on the south by the Porter, and containing 8836 acres,
1499 inhabitants, and the scattered hamlets of Carsick Hill, Crosspool,
Fulwood, Nether Green, Ran Moor, Sandy Gate, Stephen Hill, and Stomperlowe,
from 3 to 5 miles W. of Sheffield. The Independents have a chapel at
Fulwood, and the Methodists another at Ran moor. The School at Fulwood,
built in 1793, is endowed with land let for £13. 13s. a year, purchased
with several benefactions, for the education of 18 poor children; and in
1836, £5. 18s. yearly, was left by Mr. Hadfield, for 15 additional free
scholars. Higher up, in the romantic vale of the Porter, opposite the
mansion of Whiteley Wood, is CHRIST CHURCH, in FULWOOD, built and
endowed by the late Miss Phoebe Silcock, under the Act of the 1st and 2nd
of Wm. IV., cap. 38, and vested in trustees. The first stone was laid August
16th, 1837. It is a handsome building, in the lancet Gothic style,
82 feet long by 39 broad, with a tower at the west end, 67 feet high. It
cost about £2200, and will seat upwards of 300 hearers. The Rev. E. B.
Chalmer, M.A. is the incumbent. Fulwood Ecclesiastical District comprises
this township and some parts of Ecclesall Bierlow, in and near Whiteley
Wood. Beyond the church is Lord's Seat, Fulwood Head, & Ringinglowe,
adjoining the mountainous moors of Derbyshire; and north of these is
Redmires Reservoir, a fine sheet of water, covering about 50 acres, and being
now the principal source of the Sheffield Waterworks. It is near the source
of the Rivelin ; and lower down the stream, on the lofty and precipitous
banks of that rivulet, is Bell Hag Inn, 3 miles west of Sheffield, commanding
extensive views over the hills and dales of Stannington, Loxley, and
Bradfield. The inn and large reservoir at Redmires are about six miles
west of Sheffield; and a delightful walk of a mile further to the west, car-
ries the tourist to the lofty summit of Stanage Pole, where many of the
mountain peaks and dales of Derbyshire are opened to his view. Other
large reservoirs have been formed for the supply of the millowners; and
another, of about 50 acres, is now constructing at Redmires.
The MANOR is a small village, nearly 2 miles E.S.E. of Sheffield, and
formed principally in the ruins of the ancient Manor House of Hallamshire.
It is in Sheffield township, nearly in the centre of the PARK, which is now
enclosed, and contains a populous suburb of the town, on the acclivity rising
from the Sheaf; and many scattered farm houses, handsome villas, &c.
Near Park Grange, is QUEEN'S TOWER, the castellated mansion of Samuel
Roberts, Esq.; and the beautiful grounds of THE FARM, the seat of
Michael Ellison, Esq., agent to the Duke of Norfolk. Beyond these is the
NEw PARK, which has lately been planted and tastefully laid out in delightful
walks, at the expense of His Grace, for the recreation of the public.
Data transcribed from:
Whites Directory of Sheffield 1852
Transcribed by
Colin Hinson ©2003
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