53°21′18″N1°28′59″W / 53.355°N 1.483°W /53.355; -1.483
| Nether Edge and Sharrow | |
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 Shown withinSheffield | |
| Area | 1.31 sq mi (3.4 km2) |
| Population | 18,890 (2011 census)[1] |
| • Density | 14,420/sq mi (5,570/km2) |
| Metropolitan borough | |
| Metropolitan county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| UK Parliament | |
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Nether Edge and Sharrow Ward, which includes thedistricts ofNether Edge,Sharrow,Abbeydale, Brincliffe and parts ofBanner Cross,Heeley andHighfield, is one of the 28 electoral wards in theCity of Sheffield,England. It is located in the south west of the city and covers an area of 1.31 square miles (3.4 km2). In 2011, the population of this ward was 18,890 people in 7,592 households.[1] Nether Edge & Sharrow ward is one of the wards that make up theSheffield Central parliamentary constituency.
Before the 19th century, the area that is now Nether Edge was largely rural and part ofEcclesall Bierlow, the only clusters of cottages being the smallmedieval hamlet of Cherry Tree Hill and a small hamlet at Machon Bank. Much of the development of the area was undertaken by George Wostenholm, a local cutler who from 1836 onward purchased a large area of land east of Brincliffe Edge.[3]
Wostenholm's home, Kenwood House, and the surrounding park (now the Kenwood Hall Hotel) took up a large portion of the land, the garden designer, Robert Marnock laid out the surrounding roads as a series of curving avenues and the remaining land sold off for development. As a result, many of the homes in the area are spacious Victorian houses that were owned by local cutlers and businessmen.[4]
The Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 (PLAA) allowed parishes to form unions, jointly responsible for the administration and funding of Poor Law in their area. By 1831 the population of the area had increased considerably and in 1837 the ‘Ecclesall Bierlow Poor Law Union’ (PLD or Poor Law District) was founded and Ecclesall Bierlow Union Workhouse, Cherry Tree Hill, Nether Edge was built.[5] In 1929 the workhouse was renamedNether Edge Hospital housing aGynaecology Unit established to serve the whole of Sheffield.[6]
Nether Edge (grid referenceSK342851) is an established residential suburb in the southwest of theCity of Sheffield,England.
Local facilities include a small shopping area at the junction of Nether Edge Road and Machon Bank Road, featuring a cafe, arts & crafts shops, a dentist, organic fruit & vegetable shop, a local baker, delicatessen / cafes, barber and hairdresser shops, a local mini-market, supermarket among others. Two small theatres (theMerlin and theLantern) also exist in the area. A farmers market selling local food produce and craft goods is held four times a year in the central area on dates roughly coinciding with the equinoxes and solstice dates.
Brincliffegrid referenceSK333849 is a small neighbourhood located to the North west of Nether Edge. It is characterised by large Victorian and Edwardian villas and low-density housing.
The Sheffield Polytechnic Art College was inBrincliffe, on Psalter Lane.
Chelsea Park, and nearbyBrincliffe Edge Woods are also in this area that lies between Nether Edge andEcclesall.
Banner Cross is a neighbourhood of Ecclesall centred on the intersection ofEcclesall Road and Psalter Lane. Banner Cross is split evenly between Nether Edge & Sharrow ward and Ecclesall Ward.
Banner Cross Hall, an ancientesquire seat, was virtually rebuilt in 1820. The main place of worship isBanner Cross Methodist Church. The nearby Banner Cross pub gained infamy when the notorious criminalCharles Peace shot and killed Arthur Dyson in the passageway beside the pub on 29 November 1876. The base of an old stone cross still remained at Banner Cross in 1819.[7] Addy (1888)[8] suggested that the name derives frombæna kross, meaning the cross of prayers.
Sharrow historically was situated within the old Ecclesall Bierlow, on the old turnpike road between Sheffield and thePennines towardsChapel en le Frith andManchester.
In the modern-eraSharrow is now largely a built up urban inner city area, located directly southwest ofSheffield city centre. Sharrow was urbanized between 1830 and 1850 whenLittle Sheffield, a village and adjunct to the main town ofSheffield was redeveloped to cope with the rapidly increasing growth in population. Separated from Sheffield town by the "uninhabited, barren, gorse-covered, Sheffield Moor".
Abbeydale is the area of, and streets around Abbeydale Road, and extends from Sharrow up to Archer Road.
The main shopping district lies between Heeley, Sharrow and Nether Edge. The Abbeydale Picture House, Abbeydale School, Mother of God RC Church,The Broadfield P.H., Carter Knowle Surgery are within this area.
