I've just been advised that the Deep End public house in Hillsboro' (formally hillsboro' baths) is to reopen after a refurb and will be called Rawsons Spring. Apparentley after a spring that runs near by.

Having looked on Google i have found Rawsons Spring Road but that looks to be further up towards Herries Rd.

Any info on Rawsons Spring would be appreciated.

Thanks

Rawson Spring Wood was an area of woodland shown on William Fairbank's 1795 map of Sheffield. It covered the area of the later Walkley Schools and downhill, reaching the approximate line of Burnaby St on the west and on the south, Whitehouse Lane. It did reach as far as Langsett Rd, but the latter didn't exist in 1795. This was some way from the old Baths towards town. You can ask to see a copy of this map in the Local Studies Library or Sheffield Archives.

A map of c 1855 shows the Hampden View Freehold Land Society and the Grammar School Land Society covering approximately the same area as the wood. The same map shows a farm called Rawson Spring Farm between Greaves Street and King James Street. The top of Greaves Street is now the highest part of Burnaby Crescent and the farm must have been below where the current junior school is.

"Spring Wood" in this context means a coppiced wood and does not necessarily imply a watercourse. There were, however, a number of small streams running down this hillside. One fed the tannery at Walkley and still sometimes flows (or rather trickles) out from behind the shops at the end of South Road.

Hugh in Walkley

You can see the remnant of the wood, and the farm on the map at www.old-maps.co.uk (http://www.old-maps.co.uk/). This not the one I mentioned above, also of 1855, which was locally produced and shows the recently laid out Freehold Land Societies.

Hugh

Rawson Spring Wood was an area of woodland shown on William Fairbank's 1795 map of Sheffield. It covered the area of the later Walkley Schools and downhill, reaching the approximate line of Burnaby St on the west and on the south, Whitehouse Lane. It did reach as far as Langsett Rd, but the latter didn't exist in 1795. This was some way from the old Baths towards town. You can ask to see a copy of this map in the Local Studies Library or Sheffield Archives.

A map of c 1855 shows the Hampden View Freehold Land Society and the Grammar School Land Society covering approximately the same area as the wood. The same map shows a farm called Rawson Spring Farm between Greaves Street and King James Street. The top of Greaves Street is now the highest part of Burnaby Crescent and the farm must have been below where the current junior school is.

"Spring Wood" in this context means a coppiced wood and does not necessarily imply a watercourse. There were, however, a number of small streams running down this hillside. One fed the tannery at Walkley and still sometimes flows (or rather trickles) out from behind the shops at the end of South Road.

Hugh in Walkley

I'm sure i've read somewhere the Rawsons of Upperthorpe were connected to the Rawsons of Wardsend.

I'll ask the Rawsons in Upperthorpe.

I remember my dad lived on Rawson Street as a young en & I think it was down near Burton Street area.

Hughw

thanks very much for your info.

:)