Ok what's your favourite spot in Sheffield. I'm after a small stretch of road, a particular vantage point or the patch of grass you just like to sit on when you're having your lunch.

I was trying to explain where mine is to a friend the other day and struggling. It is a bend on Abbeydale Road just out of Totley, where as you follow the road around the moors appear before you. You seem to go from city to countryside in seconds and I find that magical - I can feel the stress lifting from me every time I go along there. Know where I mean?

So what are the spots forum members cherish? Where do I need to visit in this lovely city?

Being a student, a lot of mine a related to the Uni, although there are others. Overlooking Stannington from the south gives a good view, and as far as the town centre goes it's probably outside at the bar opposite the Lyceum theatre on a quiet day.

In my first summer in sheff, i used to go to a bench in the botanical gardens for lunch, that was on a little path that no one seemed to know about apart from me and the squirrels. I remember it being a really chilled out place to sit and get away from the stress of work.

Also remember being taken to a park in crookes that was called the end of the world. Could see the whole of sheffield below. was v nice, especially at 3am.

when i used to do me driving lessons there was a bit up just past hillsborough, very hilly area but so beautiful, could relax more driving up there

Top of the Arts tower, amazing views!

the veiw from my bedroom window in Wharncliffe Side. A lovely veiw of the craggs

The top of Wincobank Hill - the King of the Sheffield Hills. The panoramic views are breathtaking. Facing Sheffield, you've got the Don Valley to the left, North Sheffield to the right, city centre in the middle.

Another good spot is at Parkwood Springs. OK, so it overlooks the landfill site (so I don't recommend staying there too long), but again you've got fantastic views of Sheffield.

My favourite spot is Rivelin, walking alongside the river on a sunny day. The Bolehills at Crookes is great too, fantastic views, nice a peaceful early in the morning.

The top of the "Cowwy", a hill where my old school is at Birley/Frecheville. You can see almost into town one way, Derbyshire and the Moss Valley another, out beyond Beighton and to the motorway in the distance another.. feels like home there.

Redmires resevoirs - Ride my bike up there quite regularly. Best times are early morning or an hour or so before sunset. Best of all, there's no burger vans, ice cream vans to spoil the ambience.

My favourite place in Sheffield is on Ringinglow Road after the Roundhouse, looking right down on to most of the city and beyond. Must be the only place in Sheffield where the Arts Tower looks insignificant. You can also see 7 power stations - where are they??? They must be some distance...
Also, they view of the central zone as you walk down Pye Bank Hill - makes Sheffield actually look like a big city..

Wyming Brook when there's no one else there.
You could be in the Scottish Highlands

Mine that twisty path at Wyming Brook that goes through all those nice big trees and comes out on the Reservoir.

Looking at the trees around the peace gardens at night just before Christmas! The lights are on and the leaves are red - v pretty. If I was a fairy I'd live there at Christmas time!

Within the city itelf, one of my favourite spots is the Botanical Gardens. I find that I can detatch myelf from city life in there. It somehow gives the impression that it is out in the coutryside to me.

one of mine is going though norfolk park at night. you can see the entire city from there all lit up.

Originally posted by Smiler
Ok what's your favourite spot in Sheffield. I'm after a small stretch of road, a particular vantage point or the patch of grass you just like to sit on when you're having your lunch.

I was trying to explain where mine is to a friend the other day and struggling. It is a bend on Abbeydale Road just out of Totley, where as you follow the road around the moors appear before you. You seem to go from city to countrysied in seconds and I find that magical - I can feel the stress lifting from me every time I go along there. Know where I mean?

So what are the spots forum members cherish? Where do I need to visit in this lovely city?


I have a very soft spot for Loxley common, the wooded area at the bottom of Loxley valley. At school this was part of our cross country run, but over the years I have spent many hours walking through its wild and craggy paths. Very much a place a solitude and spiritual santuary!

[Alert...I'm about to go off on one]

... Apart from that one time when I walked from the Admiral Rodney in Loxley back home to Stannington by walking through the woods. It was a moonless night and despite knowing the place like the back of my hand ended up having a long encounter with total pitch blackness, caught between an unscalable cliff the river.
If I had been anywhere else I would have needed therapy to recover. The place is so deeply in my blood that I found the whole experience quite "positive".

my favourite place in Sheffield is my bed :-)

Failing that I really like the walk up to the damns at whitely woods. v nice, so rural and yet so close the city centre.

My fave places in sheffield are A) where i live on the old water treatment works at redmires, cos its so quiet, and B) just up the road, at stanage pole, the views are amazing. You can see all of sheffield and beyond, and behind you there is hope valley and the cement works can be seen bewteen hope and castleton. The best thing about stanage is i can see my old house from there. Its where i grew up, its nice to "go back"!!

There's loads of place I like, mostly due to the amount of nice parks, and the fact Sheffield is on the edge of Peak District.
Used to really like walking up on Bole Hill when I lived up in Crookes, and now Longley Park now I live in Longley. Both have excellent views of Sheffield and surrounding countryside.

my fave spot in sheffield is at the top of lodge lane. you can see for miles

a, Houndkirk Moor.

b, Rivelin Rocks

c, Wharnecliffe Crags

d, Wadsley Common

e, Sheffield in general.:thumbsup:

Nice one guys and gals. I've a few days off in July and I might just do a tour based on your recs.

Stanage Pole - yes great spot, good call.

Smiler

If you're doing a tour try the top road from Worrall out to High Bradfield, we sometimes come home that way and there are good views of Sheffield and out over Lodge Moor etc. Up the hill out of Low Bradfield and a right turn takes you out to the Strines the country way.

Good views and a good pint ! ...and you can get home the quick way along the A57.

Redmires Res. and Rivelin Valley.

However, there's a road that runs up from the Rivelin Post Office to where Nether Edge Hospital used to be. Towards the top there's a little car park area that is great for star gazing! I took some excellent pics of a comet from there - fantastic!

Joe

I went to Ewden Dam the other day. It must be about 20years since I was last there. I'd forgotten how lovely it was.

Originally posted by Andy78
Also remember being taken to a park in crookes that was called the end of the world. Could see the whole of sheffield below. was v nice, especially at 3am. that's bole hill park - i first knew it as the "end of the world" park too :D

it's great - especially at night when you can see all the lights way down in the valley.

The Bole Hills is my favourite spot in Sheffield. When I go running it's sometimes one of the places I run to, but I always want to stop and admire the view when I get there, so it's a bit anti-productive in that respect!

On the bole hills is fantastic looking down over rivelin valley to the mighty hillsborough in the distance.

The view from the top of the ski slope is also impressive and daunting, it feels like your going to fall off the top of the world when you look down the steep part of the slop to the city below.