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The name Sheffield is Old English in origin. [31] It derives from the River Sheaf, whose name is a corruption of shed or sheth, meaning to divide or separate. [32] Field is a generic suffix deriving from the Old English feld, meaning a forest clearing. [33]
The name Sheffield, has its origins in Old English and derives from the name of a principal river in the city, the River Sheaf.This name, in turn, is a corruption of shed or sheth, which refers to a divide or separation.
This timeline of Sheffield history summarises key events in the history of Sheffield, a city in England. The origins of the city can be traced back to the founding of a settlement in a clearing beside the River Sheaf in the second half of the 1st millennium AD. The area had seen human occupation since at least the last ice age, but significant growth in the settlements that are now ...
The City of Sheffield is a metropolitan borough with city status in South Yorkshire, England. The metropolitan borough includes the administrative centre of Sheffield , the town of Stocksbridge and the larger village of Chapeltown and part of the Peak District . [ 7 ]
Sheffield Improvement Act 1818; Sheffield Manor Lodge; Sheffield Outrages; Sheffield Rally; Sheffield tree felling protests; History of Sheffield United F.C. History of Sheffield Wednesday F.C. Sheffield Wool Shear Workers Union; Shirecliffe; George Talbot, 4th Earl of Shrewsbury; Society for Constitutional Information; St Matthew's Church ...
The areas of Sheffield, a city and metropolitan borough in the north of England, vary widely in size and history. Some of the areas developed from villages or hamlets, that were absorbed into Sheffield as the city grew, and thus their centres are well defined, but the boundaries of many areas are ambiguous. The areas of Sheffield do not play a ...
The Sheffield Resolves, or Sheffield Declaration, was an early Colonial American petition against British rule and manifesto for individual rights, drawn up as a series of resolves approved by the Town of Sheffield on January 12, 1773, and printed in The Massachusetts Spy, Or, Thomas's Boston Journal on February 18, 1773.
The Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust, a partnership between Sheffield City Council, Sheffield Hallam University and the Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire has preserved key sites associated with the city's industrial heritage, some of which actually still operate ancient equipment for the public, such as the Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet and the ...