Netherthorpe, Sheffield
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| Netherthorpe shown within Sheffield | |
| OS grid reference | SK343876 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | SHEFFIELD |
| Postcode district | S3 |
| Dialling code | 0114 |
| Police | South Yorkshire |
| Fire | South Yorkshire |
| Ambulance | Yorkshire |
| EU Parliament | Yorkshire and the Humber |
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Netherthorpe is a suburb of the City of Sheffield in England. It stands one mile (1.6 km) west of the city centre. It is mostly an area of local government built housing situated on a considerable slope running downhill from the Brook Hill roundabout at a height of 107 metres towards the Shalesmoor roundabout at a height of 51 Metres over a distance of one kilometre. It is bounded by the suburbs of Upperthorpe to the north, Crookesmoor to the west and the dualled Inner Ring Road (Netherthorpe Road) to the east. The suburb falls within the Walkley ward of the City.
The name Netherthorpe is a 19th-century creation first coined when the area was first built on in the second half of that century. It was created by town planners who needed to name the newly created suburb and proposed Netherthorpe as a response to the adjoining and long established suburb of Upperthorpe, which is an area of some antiquity, being founded by the Vikings as a settlement in the 9th century.
Prior to the middle part of the 19th century Netherthorpe was a totally rural location with J. Tayler’s map of Sheffield of 1832 showing it as an area of fields and pasture. By 1850, J. Rapkin’s map showed the western limit of Sheffield town being marked by St George’s Church at Portobello, leaving the present Netherthorpe area still just outside the built up area. However this changed in the second half of the 19th century when a large neighbourhood of Back-to-back houses was built in the area interspersed by a number of small businesses engaged in engineering and steel finishing. The 1903 Ordnance Survey map shows Netherthorpe as a totally built up area with St Philip’s Road being the main north to South artery through the suburb. Life in Netherthorpe’s terraced housing community of the 1940s and 50s is covered in local author Fred Pass’ books “Weerz My Dad” and “Weerz My Mam”, he lived in Martin Street as a youth.
Demolition of Netherthorpe’s Victorian terraced housing began in 1956 as part of a complete redevelopment over an area of 48.5 hectares. St Annes Church on Hoyle Street was demolished in the latter stages of the renewal. The new dwellings, constructed in phases between 1959 and 1972, were mostly Local Authority built tower blocks and three and four storey maisonettes. The four tower blocks, completed in 1962, with the postal addresses of Brightmore Drive or Mitchell Street were given the individual names of Adamfield, Cornhill, Robertshaw and Crawshaw. Two of the tower blocks have 14 storeys while the other two have 12, they were improved and re-clad in a blue and cream colour scheme in 1998. Some of the maisonettes were pulled down in the early part of the 21st century and replaced by conventional houses. When the Victorian terraced houses were demolished in the 1950s an area of parkland known as The Ponderosa was created as a recreation area for Netherthorpe and the adjoining suburb of Upperthorpe.
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