Glossary
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360Giving
The open data standard and registry used by UK grant funders, from the National Lottery to local trusts, to publish who they have given money to, how much and for…
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Abbeydale Brewery
One of Sheffield's longest-running modern breweries, founded in 1996 in Heeley, best known for its pale ale Moonshine, which is on the bar in a large share of the city's…
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Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet
A preserved water-powered scythe and steel works on the River Sheaf at Abbeydale, dating largely from the eighteenth century, with tilt hammers, a grinding hull, workers' cottages and one of…
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Agile tariff
Octopus Energy's electricity tariff whose price changes every half hour, following the wholesale market, published a day ahead. It is cheapest overnight and at midday when renewables are plentiful, and…
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Attercliffe
The East End district along Attercliffe Road and the Lower Don Valley that was the heart of Sheffield's heavy steel industry, home to firms such as Brown Bayley and Firth…
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Bassett's
The sweet maker founded by George Bassett in Sheffield in 1842, famous for Liquorice Allsorts, said to have been invented in 1899 when a salesman dropped his tray of samples,…
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Bramall Lane
Home of Sheffield United, on the south side of the city centre. It opened as a cricket ground in 1855, staged Yorkshire county cricket until 1973, hosted one of the…
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Breadcake
The Sheffield name for a soft bread roll, the thing a chip butty or a bacon sandwich is served in. Ask for a bap, a cob, a barm or a…
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Buffer girls
The women who polished finished cutlery and silverware on buffing wheels, one of the dirtiest and best-known jobs in the Sheffield trades. Wrapped in brown paper aprons and headscarves against…
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Carbon intensity
How much carbon dioxide is emitted for each unit of electricity generated, measured in grams of CO2 per kilowatt-hour. The National Energy System Operator publishes a live and forecast figure…
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Castlegate
The oldest part of Sheffield, at the meeting of the rivers Don and Sheaf where Sheffield Castle stood until it was demolished after the Civil War. Mary, Queen of Scots…
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CC BY
Creative Commons Attribution, the open licence that lets anyone reuse a work, including commercially, as long as they credit the author. Several of the datasets and images we use are…
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Charity Commission register
The official register of charities in England and Wales, published as open data by the Charity Commission, listing every registered charity's purposes, trustees, income and area of operation. Our charities…
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Chip spice
A seasoned salt, paprika-red and slightly sweet, shaken over chips. It is really a Hull invention, sold as American Chip Spice since the 1970s and 1980s, but it has spread…
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Cholera Monument
The tall Gothic spire on the hill above Norfolk Park and the station, in the Cholera Monument Grounds, commemorating the 402 people who died in the cholera epidemic of 1832…
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Chuffed
Pleased, proud and happy: "I'm reyt chuffed with that". It is used across the north but is a staple of Sheffield speech. Chuffed to bits is the stronger form.
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Cliffhanger
A free outdoor sports festival held in Sheffield's parks, built around climbing but also covering running, cycling, bouldering competitions and outdoor brands, reflecting the city's reputation as the outdoor capital…
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Constituency
The area that elects one Member of Parliament. Sheffield is covered by six: Central, Hallam, Heeley, South East, Brightside and Hillsborough, and Penistone and Stocksbridge, which straddles the Barnsley boundary.…
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Contracts Finder
The government's public register of contract opportunities and awards worth over a low threshold from central government, councils, the NHS and other public bodies in England. We use it to…
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Crookes
A hilltop suburb west of the city centre, above Crookes Valley Park and the university. Its terraces are popular with students and its high street of independent shops and pubs…
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Crucible steel
The process invented in Sheffield around 1740 by the clockmaker Benjamin Huntsman, who melted blister steel in clay crucibles to produce a uniform, high-quality steel for springs and tools. It…
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Cutlers' Hall
The headquarters of the Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire, the trade body chartered in 1624 to regulate the cutlery trades, opposite the cathedral on Church Street. The present hall dates…
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Damflask
The reservoir at Low Bradfield in the Loxley valley north-west of the city, completed in 1896 and now used by Sheffield's sailing and rowing clubs, with a level 3.5-mile path…
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Devonshire Green
The grassy park in the Devonshire Quarter, between Division Street and the ring road, with a skate area and a stepped amphitheatre. It hosted the main stage of Tramlines in…
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Ecclesall Road
The long road running south-west from the city centre towards Ecclesall and the Peak District, universally known as Eccy Road. Its lower half is lined with bars, restaurants, cafes and…
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Ecclesall Woods
About 350 acres of ancient woodland in the south-west of the city between Abbeydale Road and Ecclesall, the largest in Sheffield. The woods contain the remains of charcoal burners' platforms…
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Endcliffe Park
The park at the bottom of the Porter Valley beside Ecclesall Road, opened in 1887 to mark Queen Victoria's golden jubilee. A memorial marks the crash of the Mi Amigo,…
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Environment Agency
The public body responsible for rivers, flooding, water quality and pollution in England. Its open data feeds give us river levels and flood warnings for the Don, Sheaf, Loxley, Rivelin…
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Ey up
The all-purpose northern greeting: hello, watch out, look at this, or what's going on, depending on tone. "Ey up, love" is a standard Sheffield hello. Sometimes written ay up or…
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Fargate
Sheffield's main pedestrian shopping street, running from the Town Hall and the Peace Gardens down towards High Street and the cathedral. It has been the centre of the city's retail…
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FHRS rating
The Food Hygiene Rating Scheme score from 0 to 5 given by the Food Standards Agency after a council hygiene inspection, where 5 is very good and 0 means urgent…
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Fish, chips and Hendo's
The Sheffield way with a chippy tea: fish and chips with a shake of Henderson's Relish rather than, or as well as, vinegar. Some chip shops also offer chip spice.…
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Five Weirs Walk
A five-mile riverside footpath and cycle route along the River Don from the Wicker in the city centre to Meadowhall, passing the five weirs that once served the steelworks of…
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Forge Dam
The mill pond and cafe at the top of the Porter Valley parks, about two miles' walk upstream from Endcliffe Park through Bingham Park and Whiteley Woods. The dam once…
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Gennel
A narrow passage between or behind houses, often the alley that runs between two terraces. In Sheffield it is usually spelt gennel and pronounced with a soft g, as in…
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Gi'o'er
Give over: stop it, leave off, or, said with a laugh, I don't believe you. It is written a dozen ways, gi'o'er, gi'ower, gee-or, and heard everywhere from playgrounds to…
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Ginnel
See gennel. Ginnel with a hard g is the spelling and pronunciation used in most of Yorkshire and Lancashire for a narrow passage between houses. In Sheffield the same passage…
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Graves Park
Sheffield's largest park, over 200 acres in the south of the city, given to the people by the mail-order magnate and alderman J.G. Graves between 1925 and 1936. It has…
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Great Sheffield Flood
On the night of 11 March 1864 the newly built Dale Dyke Dam above Bradfield collapsed, sending an estimated 700 million gallons of water down the Loxley and Don valleys…
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Hallamshire
The ancient district centred on Sheffield, roughly the old parishes of Sheffield, Ecclesfield and Bradfield, recorded from the Middle Ages as the lordship of Hallamshire. The name survives in the…
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Henderson's Relish
Sheffield's own spicy, fruity, vegan condiment, made in the city since 1885 when Henry Henderson began selling it from Broad Lane. Similar in look to Worcestershire sauce but with no…
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Hillsborough
A suburb in the north-west of the city and, to most of the world, the home ground of Sheffield Wednesday since 1899. The stadium's name is also inseparable from the…
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Hole in the Road
The nickname for Castle Square, a sunken pedestrian roundabout with subways, shops and a famous fish tank, opened in 1967 at the junction of High Street, Angel Street and Arundel…
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IMD
The Index of Multiple Deprivation, the government's official measure of relative deprivation for every LSOA in England, combining income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment. The 2019 edition…
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IndexNow
A protocol that lets a website tell search engines such as Bing immediately when a page has been added or changed, instead of waiting to be crawled. We ping IndexNow…
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Jitty
Yet another word for a narrow alley between houses. Jitty is really a Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire word, and Sheffield people are more likely to say gennel, but it turns up…
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Kelham Island
A former industrial district just north of the city centre, on a man-made island between the River Don and a mill goit cut in the twelfth century to serve the…
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Kelham Island Brewery
The brewery started in 1990 by Dave Wickett in the garden of the Fat Cat, whose Pale Rider was Champion Beer of Britain in 2004. It closed in 2022 and…
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Kelham Island Museum
The industrial museum on Kelham Island, opened in 1982 in a former power station, telling the story of Sheffield's steel, tools and cutlery. Its star exhibit is the River Don…
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Kelham Island Tavern
The small pub on Russell Street at Kelham Island that won CAMRA's National Pub of the Year in 2008 and again in 2009, the first pub to win twice in…
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Keyless API
A public data interface that can be called without registering for an access key or token. Where we can, this site is built on keyless APIs, such as those of…
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Ladybower
The reservoir in the Upper Derwent Valley west of Sheffield, completed in 1945, which drowned the villages of Derwent and Ashopton. Its two round bellmouth overflows and the Ashopton viaduct…
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Laik
To play, from the Old Norse leika. Children laik out, a footballer laiks for a team, and if you are laiking you are off work or skiving. More common in…
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Land Registry price paid
HM Land Registry's open dataset of every residential property sale in England and Wales since 1995, with the address, price, date and property type. It is published monthly under the…
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Lden
The day-evening-night noise level, an averaged measure of environmental noise over 24 hours in decibels, with evening and night-time noise weighted more heavily because it is more annoying. Defra's strategic…
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Little Mesters
The self-employed craftsmen at the heart of the Sheffield cutlery and tool trades: a mester (master) rented a workshop or a place at a grinding trough and did one stage…
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Love
Used as a friendly form of address to almost anyone in Sheffield: "Y'alright, love?" from a bus driver, a shopkeeper or a stranger holding a door. It is not flirtatious…
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LSOA
Lower layer Super Output Area, the small statistical area used by the Office for National Statistics for census and deprivation data. Each LSOA contains roughly 1,000 to 3,000 people, about…
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Mardy
Sulky, moody, whingeing or quick to take offence, usually said of children but applied cheerfully to adults too. "Stop being so mardy." It is widespread across Yorkshire and the East…
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Mash
To brew tea. "Mash the tea" or "is it mashed yet?" means let the tea steep. A Sheffield and South Yorkshire usage that puzzles visitors expecting potatoes.
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Meadowhall
The indoor shopping centre in the Lower Don Valley near junction 34 of the M1, opened in 1990 on the site of the former Hadfields steelworks. With around 280 shops…
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Moor Market
The city's indoor market on the Moor, opened in 2013 to replace Castle Market, with butchers, fishmongers, greengrocers, bakers, international food stalls and a food court. Wikipedia: Moor Market
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MSOA
Middle layer Super Output Area, the next size up from an LSOA, with roughly 5,000 to 15,000 people. Sheffield has about 70. MSOAs carry names from the House of Commons…
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Nah then
"Now then", a greeting or an attention-getter that can mean hello, hang on a minute, or right then let's get started, depending on delivery. Widely used across Yorkshire and the…
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NaPTAN
The National Public Transport Access Nodes dataset, the Department for Transport's register of every bus stop, tram stop, railway station and ferry terminal in Great Britain, each with a unique…
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Neepsend
The riverside district north of Kelham Island along Neepsend Lane, once dominated by the gasworks and the Wardsend area's industry. It has followed Kelham Island into new life with breweries,…
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Nesh
Sheffield and wider northern word for someone who feels the cold too easily, or who is a bit soft and fragile in general. "Put a coat on, don't be nesh."…
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Nithered
Chilled through, frozen, shivering with cold. "I'm nithered" is the usual complaint waiting for a bus on a February night in Sheffield. Being nesh is being prone to feeling nithered.
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Norfolk Park
One of the country's earliest public parks, opened in 1848 on land given by the Duke of Norfolk, on the hillside east of the station. Queen Victoria visited in 1897.…
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Northern General
The large hospital on Herries Road in Fir Vale in the north of the city, home to Sheffield's main adult A&E, the region's major trauma centre and its heart and…
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Nowt
Nothing. Its partner is owt, meaning anything: "there's nowt on" or "is there owt to eat?". "Nowt so queer as folk" is the proverb. Both come from the older English…
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ODbL
The Open Database Licence, used by OpenStreetMap, which allows free use of a database as long as the source is credited and any improved database is shared under the same…
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ODS
The NHS Organisation Data Service, which gives every NHS organisation and site, from hospital trusts to GP practices, pharmacies and dentists, a unique ODS code. Our health pages use these…
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Off the Shelf
Sheffield's festival of words, a literature and ideas festival run each October since 1991 by the city's two universities, with author talks, readings and events across the city. Wikipedia: Off…
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Olympic Legacy Park
The sports, health and research campus in Attercliffe built on the site of the demolished Don Valley Stadium, with the English Institute of Sport next door. It is home to…
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ONS
The Office for National Statistics, the UK's official statistics body, responsible for the census, population estimates, and much of the labour market and economic data we use. Its geographies, LSOAs,…
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Open Government Licence
The licence under which most UK public sector data is released, allowing anyone to copy, publish, adapt and commercially use the information as long as the source is acknowledged. Version…
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OpenStreetMap
The free, volunteer-built map of the world, edited by millions of contributors and released under the ODbL. Sheffield is one of the best-mapped cities in it. Our maps use OpenStreetMap…
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Park Hill
The huge concrete estate on the hill above Sheffield station, built between 1957 and 1961 as "streets in the sky", with wide deck-access walkways meant to keep the community life…
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Parkin
The dark, sticky Yorkshire gingerbread made with oatmeal, black treacle and golden syrup, traditionally eaten around Bonfire Night and best after a few days in the tin. Every Sheffield family…
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Peace Gardens
The public garden beside the Town Hall in the heart of the city, laid out on the site of St Paul's Church and remodelled in 1998 as part of the…
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Peace in the Park
A free, volunteer-run community festival held in early summer at the Ponderosa park in Upperthorpe, with music stages, workshops and family activities, raising money for local causes.
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Pikelet
A thin, floppy crumpet, cooked free-form on a griddle without a ring so it spreads out. Toasted and buttered, it is a Sheffield and Midlands teatime staple, and the word…
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Porter Brook
The small river that runs from Burbage Moor down the Porter Valley through Forge Dam, Whiteley Woods and Endcliffe Park, then disappears into culverts under the city to join the…
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Portland Works
A cutlery works on Randall Street off Bramall Lane, built in 1879, where the first commercial stainless steel cutlery was made by R.F. Mosley around 1914. Saved from conversion to…
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Postcode area S
The Sheffield postcode area, covering the city and a wide surrounding district including Rotherham, Barnsley, Chesterfield, Worksop and the Hope Valley. Sheffield itself is roughly S1 to S14, S17, S20,…
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Redmires
Three reservoirs high on the moors west of Lodge Moor, built between 1836 and 1854 to supply the city and now a popular walking and birdwatching spot. The moor beside…
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Reyt
The Sheffield way of saying "right", used mostly as an intensifier: "it were reyt good" means it was really good. Also written reet. Reyt good is one of the phrases…
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Ringinglow
A hamlet on the moorland edge south-west of the city, where the road from Ecclesall climbs onto the Peak District. The Norfolk Arms and the octagonal Round House, a toll…
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Rivelin Valley
The wooded valley of the River Rivelin on the north-west edge of the city, with the Rivelin Valley Nature Trail following the river past the remains of around twenty water-powered…
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River Don
Sheffield's main river, rising on the Pennine moors near Dunford Bridge and flowing through Stocksbridge, Hillsborough, Kelham Island and the East End before continuing to Rotherham, Doncaster and the Ouse…
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River Loxley
The river of the Loxley valley in the north-west, flowing from Bradfield through Damflask to join the Rivelin at Malin Bridge and the Don at Owlerton. The 1864 flood tore…
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River Sheaf
The river that gave Sheffield its name, flowing north from the Totley moors through Dore, Abbeydale and Heeley to join the Don at Castlegate. Much of its lower course was…
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Sen
Self, as in mesen, thisen, hissen and theirsen for myself, yourself, himself and themselves. "Do it thisen" means do it yourself. It survives in Sheffield and across much of Yorkshire…
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Sensoria
Sheffield's festival of music, film and digital art, running since 2008, usually in the autumn, with screenings, gigs, talks and installations in venues around the city and a strong line…
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Sharrow Vale
The neighbourhood around Sharrow Vale Road, parallel to Ecclesall Road, known for its independent shops, delis, cafes and the regular Sharrow Vale Market street market. Hunters Bar roundabout marks its…
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Sheffield Assay Office
One of the UK's four assay offices, established by Act of Parliament in 1773 to hallmark silver made in Sheffield, and still operating from Hillsborough. Its mark was a crown…
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Sheffield Blitz
The German bombing raids of 12 and 15 December 1940, which killed around 660 people, destroyed much of the Moor, High Street and Angel Street, and hit the Marples Hotel…
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Sheffield Children's Hospital
The specialist children's hospital on Western Bank, run by its own trust, Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust, one of only a handful of stand-alone children's hospital trusts in England. It…
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Sheffield Christmas Market
The city centre Christmas market of wooden chalets that runs along Fargate and Pinstone Street from mid-November to Christmas Eve, with food, drink, gifts and a bar area, alongside the…
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Sheffield City Battalion
The 12th (Service) Battalion of the York and Lancaster Regiment, a First World War pals battalion raised in the city in 1914 and trained at Redmires. It was cut to…
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Sheffield City Council
The local authority for the city, with 84 councillors elected from 28 wards, a third at a time in most years. Since 2022, after the It's Our City referendum, it…
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Sheffield City Hall
The neoclassical concert hall on Barker's Pool, designed by E. Vincent Harris and opened in 1932. Its Oval Hall seats over 2,000 and hosts orchestral concerts, comedy and rock gigs;…
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Sheffield DocFest
The Sheffield International Documentary Festival, held every June since 1994 around the Showroom Cinema and venues across the city centre. It is one of the world's leading documentary festivals, with…
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Sheffield Eagles
The city's professional rugby league club, founded in 1984, best remembered for beating Wigan to win the Challenge Cup at Wembley in 1998, one of the great cup upsets. After…
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Sheffield Food Festival
A free food and drink festival in the city centre, usually over the late May bank holiday weekend, with street food, producers' stalls, chef demonstrations and a beer and gin…
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Sheffield Forgemasters
The heavy engineering firm on Brightside Lane in the Lower Don Valley, descended from the Vickers works, which casts and forges some of the largest steel components in the world…
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Sheffield Hallam University
The city's second university, granted university status in 1992 after decades as Sheffield City Polytechnic, with around 30,000 students on its City Campus by the station and Collegiate Campus off…
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Sheffield Live
The city's community broadcaster, with Sheffield Live! radio on 93.2 FM since 2007 and a local television channel, run from the city centre with volunteer presenters and a focus on…
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Sheffield Outrages
A series of violent attacks in the 1850s and 1860s by members of Sheffield's craft trade unions against non-union workers and employers, including sabotage and gunpowder explosions, the most notorious…
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Sheffield plate
A way of fusing a thin layer of silver onto copper so the sheet could be worked like solid silver, discovered by the Sheffield cutler Thomas Boulsover around 1743. It…
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Sheffield real ale
Sheffield calls itself the real ale capital of the world, with dozens of breweries within the city boundary and a dense run of pubs around Kelham Island, Neepsend and the…
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Sheffield Round Walk
A roughly 14-mile circular walk through the parks and woods of the south-west of the city, taking in Endcliffe Park, the Porter Valley to Forge Dam, Limb Valley, Ecclesall Woods,…
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Sheffield Sharks
The city's professional basketball club, founded in 1994, several times British champions in their early years. Since 2023 they have played at the purpose-built Canon Medical Arena at the Olympic…
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Sheffield Steelers
The professional ice hockey club, founded in 1991 and one of the biggest crowd-pullers in British ice hockey, playing at the arena in the Lower Don Valley (currently Utilita Arena…
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Sheffield Students' Union
The University of Sheffield's students' union on Western Bank, regularly voted the best in the country in student surveys. Its building houses the Foundry live music venue, the Octagon Centre…
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Sheffield Tap
The pub on platform 1B of Sheffield station, opened in 2009 in the restored Edwardian first-class refreshment rooms, which had stood derelict for decades. It has its own small brewery,…
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Sheffield Teaching Hospitals
The NHS foundation trust that runs the city's adult hospitals: the Northern General, the Royal Hallamshire, Weston Park Cancer Hospital, the Jessop Wing maternity hospital and the Charles Clifford Dental…
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Sheffield Telegraph
The weekly newspaper, founded in 1855 as the Sheffield Daily Telegraph, now published on Thursdays by National World alongside The Star, with a focus on longer features, arts and property.…
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Sheffield United
The Blades, founded in 1889 by the cricket club at Bramall Lane, league champions in 1898 and four times FA Cup winners, most recently in 1925. In the modern era…
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Sheffield Wednesday
The Owls, one of the oldest football clubs in the world, founded in 1867 by the Wednesday Cricket Club and playing at Hillsborough since 1899. Four times league champions and…
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Shepherd Wheel
A small water-powered grinding workshop on the Porter Brook in Whiteley Woods, in use from at least the sixteenth century until the 1930s. Its wheel and grinding troughs were restored…
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Sithee
"See thee", used to mean goodbye, see you later. Also used as "sithee here" to mean look here, or listen. One of the most affectionate bits of the Sheffield goodbye…
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Snap
Food, especially a packed lunch taken to work. Miners and steelworkers carried their snap in a snap tin, and the word is still used across South Yorkshire for a sandwich…
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Snapshot
On this site, a stored copy of data fetched from an outside source at a known time. Our pages never call external services while you are reading them; they show…
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Snicket
Another word for a narrow footpath or cut-through between buildings or fields. It is more of a West and North Yorkshire word than a Sheffield one, but you will hear…
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South Yorkshire Mayor
The directly elected mayor who chairs SYMCA. Dan Jarvis was the first, elected in 2018; Oliver Coppard, Labour, was elected in 2022 and re-elected in 2024. The mayor is also…
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Spice
Sweets. A bag of spice is a bag of sweets, and a spice shop is a sweet shop. The word is a Sheffield and South Yorkshire usage, and has nothing…
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Stainless steel
Rust-resistant chromium steel, first produced as a commercial alloy in Sheffield in 1913 by Harry Brearley at the Brown Firth research laboratories while looking for a better steel for gun…
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Stanage Edge
The four-mile gritstone escarpment above Hathersage in the Peak District, a short drive or bus ride from Sheffield and one of the most famous climbing crags in the world. It…
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Steel City derby
The fixture between Sheffield United and Sheffield Wednesday, first played in 1890 and one of the fiercest rivalries in English football. Because the clubs are often in different divisions it…
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Storm overflow
A combined sewer overflow, where the sewer system releases untreated sewage mixed with rainwater into a river during heavy rain to stop it backing up into streets and homes. Water…
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Summat
Something. "There's summat up with it" or "summat and nowt", meaning a trivial thing not worth fussing over. Like nowt and owt it is a plain survival of older English…
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Supertram
Sheffield's light rail network, opened between 1994 and 1995, with Blue, Yellow and Purple routes across the city and the tram-train service to Rotherham Parkgate that opened in 2018. Stagecoach…
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SYMCA
The South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority, which brings together Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley and Doncaster councils under the elected South Yorkshire Mayor. It is responsible for transport, including buses and Supertram,…
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SYPTE
The South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive, which planned and funded public transport in the county from 1974, including the famous cheap-fares policy of the 1970s and 1980s, and built Supertram.…
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Tha
Sheffield keeps the old second person singular pronoun: tha or thee for "you" and thi or thy for "your". "Tha knows" means you know, and "Sithee" means see you. It…
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The Cheesegrater
The nickname for the Charles Street multi-storey car park, opened in 2008 and wrapped in a folded steel mesh screen designed by Allies and Morrison. It won architecture awards and…
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The Crucible
The Crucible Theatre on Tudor Square, opened in 1971 with a thrust stage where the audience sits on three sides. It is Sheffield Theatres' main house and, since 1977, the…
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The Egg Box
The nickname for the Town Hall Extension, a 1977 concrete office block behind the Town Hall whose stepped facade suggested an egg tray. Widely disliked, it was demolished in 2002…
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The Fat Cat
The pub on Alma Street, Kelham Island, opened in 1981 by Dave Wickett and Bruce Bentley as one of the first free houses of the real ale revival. Kelham Island…
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The Hallamshire
The Royal Hallamshire Hospital, the tower-block teaching hospital on Glossop Road opened in 1978, next to the university and Weston Park. It handles neurology, cancer, the Jessop Wing maternity unit…
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The Leadmill
The music venue and club on Leadmill Road, opened in 1980 in a former flour mill, that gave early gigs to Pulp, the Arctic Monkeys and a great many other…
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The Lyceum
The ornate Victorian theatre on Tudor Square next to the Crucible, opened in 1897 to a design by W.G.R. Sprague. After years of decline it was restored and reopened in…
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The Moor
The long pedestrianised shopping street running south-west from the city centre towards London Road, rebuilt after the Blitz destroyed most of it in 1940. It was redeveloped again in the…
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The Star
Sheffield's daily newspaper, published since 1887 and now owned by National World. Its website thestar.co.uk carries most of the city's day-to-day news. The Green 'Un was its Saturday sports edition.…
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The Wicker
The wide old street running north-east from Lady's Bridge out of the city centre, crossed by the Wicker Arches, the Grade II* listed 660-yard railway viaduct built in 1848 for…
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Thornbridge
The brewery founded in 2005 at Thornbridge Hall near Bakewell in Derbyshire, whose Jaipur IPA helped start the British craft beer boom. It is close enough and sells enough in…
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Thornton's
The chocolate firm founded when Joseph William Thornton opened his first shop on Norfolk Street in Sheffield in 1911, famous for its toffee and Continental chocolates. Manufacturing moved to Derbyshire…
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Tramlines
Sheffield's big summer music festival, held every July since 2009. It began as a free city-centre event with a main stage on Devonshire Green, grew into a ticketed weekend, and…
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Travel South Yorkshire
The public transport information brand for the region, run by SYMCA, covering bus, tram and train timetables, live departures, fares and the journey planner. It was the public face of…
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TravelMaster
The company that sells multi-operator tickets across South Yorkshire, so one ticket covers Stagecoach, First, TM Travel and other buses, plus Supertram and, on some tickets, local trains. It is…
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University of Sheffield
The city's red-brick Russell Group university, chartered in 1905, centred on Western Bank with Firth Court, the Arts Tower and the Students' Union. It has around 30,000 students and its…
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Ward
The electoral division of the city council. Sheffield has 28 wards, each electing three councillors, from Beauchief and Greenhill to Woodhouse. Wards are also used for some council statistics and…
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Watter
Water, in the broad Sheffield pronunciation, with a short a as in hat. Rain is a great deal of watter. Sheffield's rivers, the Don, Sheaf, Porter, Rivelin and Loxley, provided…
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Weston Park
Three things share the name: the Victorian park opened in 1875 next to the University of Sheffield; Weston Park Museum, the city's free museum of Sheffield history, natural history and…
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While
In Sheffield and much of Yorkshire, while is used to mean until: "the shop is open nine while five". The usage is so established that road signs and job adverts…
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Winter Garden
The great glasshouse next to the Peace Gardens and Millennium Gallery, opened in 2003. Built from parabolic arches of laminated larch, it is about 70 metres long and 21 metres…
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