sheff.events
Sheffield
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Accessibility-first search

Everything on this site that you can turn up to, searched by the two things we can actually answer: whether step-free access has been recorded, and how far the nearest tram, bus or rail stop is. Where nobody has recorded the access, this page says it is not recorded. It never fills the gap with a guess.

What this search can and cannot tell you

Answerable from what is recorded

  • Step-free access From the OpenStreetMap wheelchair tag on a venue, and the access field on a place that helps.
  • Distance to a tram, bus or rail stop From the stored NaPTAN stop list and the coordinates already held for each place.

Across the whole site, 20 of 1,107 buildings have had their door recorded either way. Through those, 38 listings can borrow an answer. Everything else is genuinely unknown to us, and this page will keep saying so until somebody surveys it.

Not recorded anywhere yet, so not offered

These have no filter, on purpose. A box that always returns nothing would read as "Sheffield has none of these", which is not what the data says. The data says nobody has written them down.

  • Hearing loop A field on the venue record, filled in by whoever runs the room. Until that exists, any filter here would return an empty list and quietly imply the city has none.
  • Quiet space A field on the event or venue, filled in by the organiser. It changes per night rather than per building, so it belongs on the event listing form.
  • Seating A field on the event, filled in by the organiser. Whether a room has chairs out is a decision made per night, so a venue-level answer would be wrong most of the time.

1,507 matches

  • Help

    74th Oak Street Scout Group

    "It's a scout hut & isn't open to the public on a regular basis." · Canterbury Road S8 9QS

    Step-free access recorded Recorded by the help provider or OpenStreetMap

    Nearest stop: Rushdale Road/Upper Albert Road, 83 m away, about 2 minutes on foot in a straight line

  • Place

    Frog & Parrot

    Step-free access recorded OpenStreetMap survey of this building

    Nearest stop: Rockingham Street/RS1, 91 m away, about 2 minutes on foot in a straight line

  • Help

    Heeley Institute

    "people book it for use" · 147 Gleadless Road S2 3AF

    Step-free access recorded Recorded by the help provider or OpenStreetMap

    Nearest stop: Richards Road/Spencer Road, 160 m away, about 2 minutes on foot in a straight line

  • Help

    Highfield Library

    Monday 10am-5pm, Tuesday 10am-5pm, Wednesday 10am-5pm, Friday 10am-5pm, Saturday: 10am to 4pm · London Road, Sheffield, S2 4NF

    Step-free access recorded Recorded by the help provider or OpenStreetMap

    Nearest stop: London Road/Sitwell Place, 45 m away, about 1 minutes on foot in a straight line

  • Place

    Hillsborough Leisure Centre

    Step-free access recorded OpenStreetMap survey of this building

    Nearest stop: Penistone Road/Beulah Road, 40 m away, about 1 minutes on foot in a straight line

  • Help

    Hillsborough Library

    Monday 10am-5pm, Tuesday 10am-5pm, Wednesday 10am-5pm, Friday 10am-5pm, Saturday: 10am to 4pm · Middlewood Road, Sheffield, S6 4HD

    Step-free access recorded Recorded by the help provider or OpenStreetMap

    Nearest stop: Middlewood Road/Leader Road, 116 m away, about 2 minutes on foot in a straight line

  • Place

    Magna Science Adventure Centre

    Step-free access recorded OpenStreetMap survey of this building

    Nearest stop: Sheffield Road/Deadmans Hole Lane, 145 m away, about 2 minutes on foot in a straight line

  • Help

    Newfield Green Library

    Monday 10am-2pm, Tuesday 12:30pm-5pm, Thursday 10am-1pm, Friday 10am-2pm, Saturday 9:30am-12:30pm · 577 Gleadless Road, Sheffield, S2 2BT

    Step-free access recorded Recorded by the help provider or OpenStreetMap

    Nearest stop: Gleadless Road/Buck Wood View, 40 m away, about 1 minutes on foot in a straight line

  • Place

    Sheffield Cathedral

    Step-free access recorded OpenStreetMap survey of this building

    Nearest stop: Cathedral, 55 m away, about 1 minutes on foot in a straight line

  • Place

    Sheffield City Hall

    Step-free access recorded OpenStreetMap survey of this building

    Nearest stop: City Hall, 88 m away, about 2 minutes on foot in a straight line

  • Help

    St. Mary's Community Hall

    Howard Road S6 3RX

    Step-free access recorded Recorded by the help provider or OpenStreetMap

    Nearest stop: South Road/Hoole Street, 55 m away, about 1 minutes on foot in a straight line

  • Place

    West Street Live

    Step-free access recorded OpenStreetMap survey of this building

    Nearest stop: Rockingham Way/West Street, 47 m away, about 1 minutes on foot in a straight line

  • Help

    Western Bank Library

    Mo-Fr 09:00-17:00; Sa,Su 10:00-18:00 · Bolsover Street

    Step-free access recorded Recorded by the help provider or OpenStreetMap

    Nearest stop: Winter Street/Mushroom Lane, 78 m away, about 1 minutes on foot in a straight line

  • Help

    Woodhouse Community Hub and Library

    Mo,Th 10:00-17:00; Tu,Fr 10:00-14:00; Sa 09:30-12:30 · Stradbroke Road S13 7GD

    Step-free access recorded Recorded by the help provider or OpenStreetMap

    Nearest stop: Stradbroke Road/Sheffield Road, 28 m away, about 1 minutes on foot in a straight line

  • Help

    Woodseats Library

    Monday: 10am to 5pm; Tuesday: 10am to 5pm; Wednesday: 10am to 5pm; Thursday: Closed; Friday: 10am to 5pm; Saturday: 10am to 4pm · 900 Chesterfield Road, Sheffield, S8 0SH

    Step-free access recorded Recorded by the help provider or OpenStreetMap

    Nearest stop: Chesterfield Road/Cobnar Road, 27 m away, about 1 minutes on foot in a straight line

  • Help

    Bloom Sheffield

    We-Sa 10:00-17:00 · 661 Chesterfield Road

    Limited step-free access recorded Recorded by the help provider or OpenStreetMap

    Nearest stop: Chesterfield Road/Woodseats Road, 28 m away, about 1 minutes on foot in a straight line

  • Help

    Central Library

    Monday to Friday: 10am – 5pm, Saturday:10am-4pm · Surrey Street, Sheffield, S1 1XZ

    Limited step-free access recorded Recorded by the help provider or OpenStreetMap

    Nearest stop: Arundel Gate, 48 m away, about 1 minutes on foot in a straight line

  • Place

    Upper Chapel

    Limited step-free access recorded OpenStreetMap survey of this building

    Nearest stop: Leopold Street/Orchard Lane, 146 m away, about 2 minutes on foot in a straight line

  • Event

    Life Drawing @ Uni Arms 21st Sept

    Mon, 21 Sep 2026 · 6.30pm · The University Arms

    Recorded as not step free Recorded for the venue, The University Arms, not for this listing

    Nearest stop: Bolsover Street/Netherthorpe Road, 90 m away, about 2 minutes on foot in a straight line

  • Place

    The University Arms

    Recorded as not step free OpenStreetMap survey of this building

    Nearest stop: Bolsover Street/Netherthorpe Road, 90 m away, about 2 minutes on foot in a straight line

  • Place

    Tiger Works

    Recorded as not step free OpenStreetMap survey of this building

    Nearest stop: West Street, 58 m away, about 1 minutes on foot in a straight line

  • Help

    1 A S T Pharmacy

    236 Abbeydale Road, Sheffield S7 1FL

    Step-free access not recorded

    Nearest stop: Abbeydale Road/St Ronans Road, 42 m away, about 1 minutes on foot in a straight line

  • Help

    120 Lowedges Road

    Lowedges, Sheffield S8 7LD

    Step-free access not recorded

    Nearest stop: Lowedges Road/Lowedges Crescent, 31 m away, about 1 minutes on foot in a straight line

  • Help

    146th Sheffield Old Norton

    Step-free access not recorded

    Nearest stop: Warminster Road/Hemsworth Road, 46 m away, about 1 minutes on foot in a straight line

The size of the gap

This is not a good chart. It is an honest one. Almost nothing in Sheffield has had its doorway surveyed and written down anywhere a computer can read, and until that changes a search like this can only be as good as the record it reads.

How much of each kind of listing carries a step-free record at all
Step-free access records by kind of listingFour bars, one per kind of listing, split into step free, limited, not step free and not recorded. The not-recorded share is overwhelmingly the largest on every bar.Events98.3%Venues and places98.5%Places that help97.9%Step freeLimitedNot step freeNot recorded
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Step-free access records by kind of listing
KindStep freeLimitedNot step freeNot recorded
Events1.3%0%0.4%98.3%
Venues and places1%0.2%0.3%98.5%
Places that help1.8%0.4%0%97.9%

Where these answers come from

Step-free records come from OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database Licence, and from the help providers themselves. Stop locations come from the Department for Transport NaPTAN dataset under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Walking distances are straight-line from the stop to the place, so a real walk round a junction or up a hill will be longer.

If you run a venue and the access record here is wrong or missing, the quickest fix for everyone is to correct it on OpenStreetMap, because every other map in the city reads from it too.

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