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WikiProject on Sheffield

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Articles about subjects related to the City of Sheffield.

[edit] Parentage

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Wikipedia:UK Wikipedians' notice board

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[edit] Participants

JeremyA (talk · contribs) 16:24, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
Warofdreams (talk · contribs) 03:50, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
joshurtree (talk · contribs) 17:58, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
Wikityke (talk · contribs) 21:36, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Andreww (talk · contribs) 19:25, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
Hawksworthm (talk · contribs) 22:11, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
Mushin (talk · contribs) 11:54, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
Abdullah Geelah (talk · contribs) 14:05, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
VinceBowdren (talk · contribs) 15:49, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
lewisskinner (talk · contribs) 14:38, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
roundhouse0 (talk · contribs) 14:15, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
lou.weird (talk · contribs) 13:44, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
Patricknoddy (talk · contribs)
Jackrm (talk · contribs) 00:17, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
Bladeboy1889 (talk · contribs) 20:29, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
Deevincentday (talk · contribs) 21:36, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
BulldozerD11 (talk · contribs) 14:45, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Goals

Create and expand articles for every area of Sheffield.
Achieve FA status for one or more of the secondary Sheffield articles.

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{{WikiProject Sheffield}}:

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Sheffield, a WikiProject which aims to improve Sheffield related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.

{{Sheffield}}:

v • d • e The City of Sheffield, England

About Sheffield	Buildings · City Centre · Culture · Districts · Economy · Geography · History · Famous Residents · Sport · Transport · Timeline

Districts of Sheffield by ward	Arbourthorne · Beauchief and Greenhill · Beighton · Birley · Broomhill · Burngreave · Central · Crookes · Darnall · Dore and Totley · East Ecclesfield · Ecclesall · Firth Park · Fulwood · Gleadless Valley · Graves Park · Hillsborough · Manor Castle · Mosborough · Nether Edge · Richmond · Shiregreen and Brightside · Southey · Stannington · Stocksbridge and Upper Don · Walkley · West Ecclesfield · Woodhouse

{{SheffieldCityCentre}}:

v • d • e Sheffield City Centre

Official quarters	Castlegate • Cathedral Quarter • Cultural Industries Quarter • Devonshire Quarter • Heart of the City • Kelham Island • The Moor • Riverside Exchange • Sheaf Valley • St George's Quarter • St Vincent's Quarter

Main streets and squares	Barker's Pool • Castlegate • Castle Square • Church Street • Division Street • Fargate • Fitzalan Square • Hallam Square • High Street • Kelham Square • Leopold Square • Millennium Square • The Moor • Orchard Square • Paradise Square • Peace Gardens • Pinstone Street • Sheaf Square • Tudor Square • Wicker

Other districts	New Retail Quarter • Victoria Quays • West End

{{Sheffield stations}}:

v • d • e Railways in Sheffield

Railway lines	█ Dearne Valley • █ Hallam • █ Hope Valley • █ Midland Main Line • █ Penistone • █ Hull • █ Lincoln • █ Wakefield • Woodhead

Railway stations	Chapeltown • Darnall • Dore and Totley • Meadowhall • Sheffield • Woodhouse

Closed stations	Attercliffe • Attercliffe Road • Beauchief • Beighton • Bridgehouses • Brightside • Broughton Lane • Catcliffe • Chapeltown • Chapeltown Central • Deepcar • Ecclesfield • Ecclesfield West • Grange Lane • Grimesthorpe Bridge • Heeley • Millhouses • Meadow Hall • Wincobank (and Meadow Hall) • Neepsend • Oughtibridge • Tinsley • Victoria • Wadsley Bridge • West Tinsley • Wicker

Engine sheds	Darnall • Grimesthorpe • Millhouses • Neepsend • Nunnery • Tinsley

Transport in Sheffield • SYPTE UK railway stations: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

{{Waterways in Sheffield}}:

v • d • e Waterways in Sheffield

Main rivers	River Don · River Sheaf · Porter Brook · River Loxley · River Rivelin · River Rother

Minor rivers and brooks	Blackburn Brook · Car Brook · Limb Brook · Little Don · Meers Brook · Old Hay Brook · Owler Brook · Totley Brook · Wyming Brook

Canals	Rother Link · Sheffield Canal · Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation

{{Parks and Woodlands in Sheffield}}:

v • d • e

Parks and woodlands in Sheffield

Abbeyfield • Beauchief Gardens • Beauchief Park • Beeley Wood • Bingham Park and Whiteley Woods • Botanical Gardens • Bowden Housteads Woods • Concord Park • Cholera Monument and Clay Wood • Crookes Valley Park • Devonshire Green • Ecclesall Woods • Endcliffe Park • Firth Park • Graves Park • High Hazels Park • Hillsborough Park and Garden • Hutcliff Wood • Longley Park • Meersbrook Park • Millhouses Park • Norfolk Park • Rother Valley • Rivelin Valley • Weston Park • Wharncliffe Crags

v • d • e Buildings in Sheffield, England

Within Sheffield City Centre	Bioincubator • Cathedral • Catholic Cathedral • Central Library • Chesham House^a • City Hall • Cobweb Bridge • Cutlers' Hall • 23 Furnival Gate^p • 1 Furnival Square^u/c • Glossop Road Baths • Hannover House^p • Howden House • Jessop Hospital • Kelham Island Industrial museum (and Brewery) • Lady's Bridge • Lyceum • Millennium Galleries • National Centre for Popular Music • Old Queen's Head, Sheffield • Pennine Centre • Owen Building • Redvers House • Old Town Hall • Park Square Bridge • 1 Sheaf Square • Showroom Cinema • Sir Frederick Mappin Building • St George's Church • St. Paul's Tower^u/c • Telephone House • Town Hall • Sydney Works • V1 • Velocity Tower^u/c • West Bar Gateway Tower^p • Weston Tower^p • Winter Gardens

In the outskirts	Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet • Abbeydale Picture House • Alfred Denny Building • Arts Tower • Attercliffe Chapel • Beauchief Abbey • Birley Spa • Broom Hall • Carbrook Hall • Cholera Monument • Church of St. Nicholas • The Cremorne • Firth Court • Hicks Building • Hillsborough Barracks • Manor • Northern General Hospital • Octagon Centre • Regent Court • Royal Hallamshire Hospital • Royal Infirmary • Shepherd Wheel • Shrewsbury Hospital • Spital Tower^a • St Mark's Church • St Mary's Church • Tinsley Viaduct • Totley Tunnel • University House • Weston Park Museum • Wicker Arches

Stations past and present	Bridgehouses • Midland • Victoria • Wicker

Major complexes	Crystal Peaks • Digital Campus • Heart of the City • Meadowhall • New Retail Quarter • Park Hill • West Bar • West.One

Sports and Entertainment/ Music venues	The Boardwalk • Bracken Moor Ground • Bramall Lane • Carling Academy • City Hall • Coach and Horses Ground • The Cricketers • Crucible Theatre • D 'n' R • Don Valley Stadium • The Earl • EIS • Gatecrasher One • Goodwin Sports Centre • The Grapes • The Harley • Hillsborough Park • Hillsborough Stadium • IceSheffield • Leadmill • Look Local Stadium • Lyceum Theatre •Octagon Centre• Owlerton Stadium • Plug • Ponds Forge • Sandygate Road • Sheffield Arena • Ski Village • Under The Boardwalk

Lists of buildings	Buildings and structures in Sheffield • Listed buildings in Sheffield • source

u/c - Under Construction, p - Proposed, a - approved, d - demolished

[edit] Categories

[–] Sheffield

[–] Coal mines in Sheffield

[–] Culture in Sheffield

[+] Art museums and galleries in Sheffield

[+] Museums in Sheffield

[+] Music from Sheffield

[+] Religion in Sheffield

[+] Theatres in Sheffield

[+] Visitor attractions in Sheffield

[–] Economy of Sheffield

[–] Education in Sheffield

[+] Schools in Sheffield

[+] Sheffield Hallam University

[+] University of Sheffield

[–] Geography of Sheffield

[+] Buildings and structures in Sheffield

[+] Cemeteries in Sheffield

[+] Districts of Sheffield

[+] Parks and woodlands in Sheffield

[+] Rivers of Sheffield

[+] Streets and squares in Sheffield

[–] Health in Sheffield

[+] Hospitals in Sheffield

[+] Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

[–] History of Sheffield

[+] Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust

[–] Sheffield media

[–] People from Sheffield

[+] Old Edwardians (Sheffield)

[+] Alumni of Silverdale School (Sheffield)

[+] Alumni of Tapton School

[+] Alumni of The City School (Sheffield)

[+] Burials at Sheffield General Cemetery

[–] Politics of Sheffield

[+] Lord Mayors of Sheffield

[+] Parliamentary constituencies in Sheffield

[–] Sport in Sheffield

[+] Sheffield Scimitars players

[+] Sheffield Steelers players

[+] Sports teams and clubs in Sheffield

[+] Sports venues in Sheffield

[+] World Snooker Championships

[–] Transport in Sheffield

[+] Canals in Sheffield

[+] Railway stations in Sheffield

[+] Rivers of Sheffield

[+] Streets and squares in Sheffield

[+] Woodhead Line

[–] Visitor attractions in Sheffield

[+] Museums in Sheffield

[+] Theatres in Sheffield

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[edit] Wikipedia articles on Sheffield

Sheffield

'Main articles', linked from the Sheffield article:

[edit] New Wikipedia articles related to Sheffield

If necessary, this list can be edited at User:AlexNewArtBot/SheffieldSearchResult.

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[edit] Requests

Crookes Valley Park - an article about the park in the Crookes Valley area. SheffGruff (talk) 00:44, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
0114 (UK area code) - maybe with a map as the 020 (UK dial code)?
Sheaf Square needs to be got up to date with the work (most of it now finished), including a new map with the Nelson Mandela building no longer shown. --VinceBowdren (talk) 09:27, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
St. Vincent's Quarter - needs updating with results of ring road bypass. --VinceBowdren (talk) 08:15, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

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The project has a watchlist automaticly generated from articles that feature the {{WikiProject Sheffield}} banner on their talk page. You can view the watchlist here.

[edit] Resources

[edit] Current information

Sheffield City Council
BBC South Yorkshire
The Star—archived local news from April 2002 onwards

[edit] Historical information

Sheffield placename etymologies
Addy, Sidney Oldall (1888). A Glossary of Words Used in the Neighbourhood of Sheffield. Including a Selection of Local Names, and Some Notices of Folk-Lore, Games, and Customs. London: Trubner & Co. for the English Dialect Society.
Holland, George Calvert (1843). The vital statistics of Sheffield. Sheffield: I. H. Greaves.
- Google book search
Hunter, Joseph (1819). Hallamshire. The History and Topography of the Parish of Sheffield in the County of York. London: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mayor & Jones.
- partial transcription at wikisource