Sheffield, sourced
Where Sheffield Events gets its public data
Official and community datasets are fetched by the site on a schedule, validated, and served from the last good local snapshot. No page you open calls these services in your browser. Each entry shows its licence, the credit it asks for and when it was last checked.
Areas, Local Map, section maps
Data for Action neighbourhood boundaries
Neighbourhood boundaries by Data for Action
Noticeboard, Areas, event disruption
Environment Agency flood monitoring
Environment Agency flood and river level data from the real-time data API (Beta)
Help near you, Areas, Local Map
NHS Organisation Data Service (ODS)
GP practices, branch surgeries, pharmacies and dental practices for Sheffield postcode districts, with the published address and telephone from each organisation record
Help near you (care and support profiles)
Care Quality Commission ratings
Inspection ratings would link to the CQC record for each location. The public API needs a free subscription key, which is not yet registered, and the monthly bulk file is a spreadsheet, so this stays off until a key is saved
Noticeboard
Food Standards Agency food alerts
Contains Food Standards Agency data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Allergy alerts, product recalls and alerts for action for England and the UK, last 60 days, as national notices
Your council, Charities
Sheffield City Council grants (360Giving)
Sheffield City Council grants data in the 360Giving standard, April 2023 onwards; grants already awarded, matched to charity profiles by registered number
Your council
Contracts Finder
Contract awards and open notices published on Contracts Finder within ten miles of Sheffield city centre; each notice links to the full record
Your council (MPs), Areas
UK Parliament Members API
Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Member portraits: UK Parliament, CC BY 3.0
Getting there, Local Map, Areas, matchday travel, stop search
DfT NaPTAN stops (South Yorkshire)
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Department for Transport NaPTAN). Stop names, codes and positions only; this is a stop register, not a timetable or live departures
Areas, Students, Local Map
DfE Get Information About Schools
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Establishment records from Get Information About Schools, Department for Education; open establishments in the Sheffield local authority (LA code 373)
Students
University research repositories (OAI-PMH)
Discovery metadata only, harvested by OAI-PMH from White Rose Research Online, White Rose eTheses Online and SHU Research Data Archive (SHURDA). White Rose Research Online metadata policy: "Anyone may access the metadata free of charge. The metadata may be re-used in any medium without prior permission, for not-for-profit purposes, provided the OAI Identifier or a link to the original metadata record are given." White Rose eTheses Online and SHURDA state no metadata policy in their OAI Identify responses; every record links to the original repository page with its OAI identifier
Housing, Areas
Ofcom Connected Nations
Ofcom Connected Nations 2025 data downloads (fixed broadband coverage by census output area, mobile coverage by local authority, data for July 2025), Ofcom copyright, reproduced under Ofcom's terms of use and the Open Government Licence. Output areas placed with ONS Open Geography lookups and population-weighted centroids
Areas, Local Map
GBIF and iNaturalist wildlife observations
Dated wildlife observations for the Sheffield area from GBIF occurrence records and iNaturalist research-grade observations, kept only where the record licence is CC0, CC BY or CC BY-NC, with the recorder and dataset credited on every record
Parks and routes, Areas, outdoor events, Local Map
Environment Agency water quality
River sampling points within twelve kilometres of Sheffield city centre with the latest twelve months of dissolved oxygen, ammonia, pH, temperature, nutrient and E. coli readings from the Environment Agency Water Quality Archive
Radio, Local Map
Radio transmitters, repeaters and mesh nodes
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Transmitter technical parameters: Ofcom. Mesh nodes: MeshMap.net, from owner opt-in map reports on the Meshtastic public MQTT server; positions are deliberately approximate.
- Ofcom AM, FM and DAB transmitters · Open Government Licence v3.0 · 119 records, fetched 13 Sep 2026
- Amateur repeaters (ETCC, ukrepeater.net) · No reuse licence published · blocked, not fetched: ukrepeater.net publishes its CSV without any licence or reuse terms, and an open download is not a republication licence. Blocked until the ETCC confirms reuse; then define ACE_UKREPEATER_REUSE_OK as true.
- Meshtastic nodes (MeshMap.net) · Owner opt-in map reports via Meshtastic public MQTT · 1 record, fetched 13 Sep 2026
- Helium LoRaWAN hotspots · Helium Entity API, light use · blocked, not fetched: Helium's Entity API has no location or bounding-box query and the explorer API has closed, so hotspots near Sheffield cannot be listed from a public feed.
- AREDN amateur mesh · No public feed · blocked, not fetched: AREDN publishes no public feed of node positions; the mesh is only visible from inside it.
Areas, Local Map
OpenBenches and Opencache.UK
Benches: OpenBenches, CC BY-SA 4.0; photos belong to their uploaders and are linked, never copied. Geocaches: Opencache.UK via OKAPI, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
- OpenBenches memorial benches · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 288 records, fetched 13 Sep 2026
- Opencache.UK geocaches (OKAPI) · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · blocked, not fetched: OKAPI needs a consumer key for every method. Register a free key at https://opencache.uk/okapi/signup.html and define ACE_OKAPI_KEY.
Housing, Areas
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right. Sheffield sales for the last twelve months, standard category, aggregated by neighbourhood
Housing, Areas
HM Land Registry UK House Price Index
Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right
Noticeboard, Areas, public meetings and priorities
Police.uk neighbourhood data
Neighbourhood meetings, priorities and boundaries from data.police.uk
Directory, food businesses, Areas
Food Standards Agency ratings
Food hygiene ratings from the Food Standards Agency
Areas, Students, Housing
ONS Census 2021 via Nomis
Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Census 2021 tables TS001, TS007A, TS017, TS044, TS054 and TS066 for every Sheffield LSOA, with ONS population-weighted centroids
Help near you, Housing, Areas, Local Map
Sheffield City Council open data (ArcGIS)
Sheffield City Council open data
- Libraries · Open Government Licence v3.0 · 30 records, fetched 13 Sep 2026
- Family hubs · Open Government Licence v3.0 · 7 records, fetched 13 Sep 2026
- Neighbourhood housing offices · Open Government Licence v3.0 · 9 records, fetched 13 Sep 2026
- Traffic cameras · Open Government Licence v3.0 · 59 records, fetched 13 Sep 2026
Positions of the council’s traffic-monitoring cameras only; the same dataset’s CCTV points are left off, and no camera images are published or linked. - Public toilets · Open Government Licence v3.0 · not in use
The layer publishes only a property reference and state per point, with no name or address, so it cannot yet be presented usefully. The Toilet Map layer stays in use. - Cycle hangars · No licence stated · not in use
The catalogue item states no licence. It stays off until the Council confirms reuse terms. - Bring recycling sites · INSPIRE End User Licence · not in use
Published under the INSPIRE End User Licence rather than OGL; republication needs a licence review first. - Household waste recycling centres · INSPIRE End User Licence · not in use
Published under the INSPIRE End User Licence rather than OGL; republication needs a licence review first.
Areas, Local Map
Wikidata heritage and Open Plaques
Listed buildings, scheduled monuments, landmarks and commemorative plaques: Wikidata, CC0; Wikipedia text CC BY-SA, linked and never copied; Commons photos linked with their own credit. Plaques: Open Plaques, Public Domain (PDDL 1.0)
- Wikidata places and listed buildings · CC0 1.0 · 1,522 records, fetched 13 Sep 2026
- Wikidata commemorative plaques · CC0 1.0 · checked, none beyond those already in Open Plaques
- Open Plaques, Sheffield · Public Domain Dedication and License 1.0 · 91 records, fetched 13 Sep 2026
Housing and area constraints
Planning Data
Planning Data, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Everything on this page is also available as JSON with sources and citations, and as a read-only MCP server for agents. Developer documentation
Base maps use OpenStreetMap data (ODbL) through the tile provider shown on each map. Sports, performer, book and place enrichment credit their own sources beside the data they add. A public URL is not a licence: anything without published reuse terms stays out until its publisher agrees.