I am moving to Sheffield and would like to know about the different areas of Sheffield. I would like to know about the area in general including transport and nightlife. I would be grateful for all your knowledge!! :)

I live in the Woodseats area of Sheffield and will vouch for it being a popular area for buying and selling property. It has all the amenities you need schools, pubs, shops, main bus route and it's a short journey to the city centre. Overall one of Sheffields most sought after areas - take a look if you get the chance.

I live in Hillsborough which is a quite friendly place. On the routes of both the blue and Yellow(meadowhall) trams aswell as having it's own little bus station now.
Has a very busy shopping centre aswell as Hillsborough barracks which houses a number of big name shops and a few independant ones too.
Amenities - we have a large park which has a pond with ducks, tennis courts and football fields (I think they are associated with the club next to the park) as well as a leisure centre too.
I rarely need to go into the city centre to find what I need that includes for clothes for me and the kids - the co-op has DP and Burtons.
There are at least four restaurants in the centre of Hillsborough - Indian, Italian, Cantonese and Spanish (I think) and few others as you go out of the main shopping centre.
We are a 10-30 min walk (depending on how fast you walk) from the start if the Rivelin Valey nature trail and buses leave on a regular basis going up to lady bower and the peak district.
If you want night life - the pubs are always extremely busy at the weekends and during the week too. You do not have far to stumble for your late night takeaway either.

Family wise - the amenities for kids are quite good. Lots of toddler groups and the schools although not ranked at the top - are high in the league tables. I can only speak for three schools myself.

erm......well that is my plug for the area

Moon Maiden

i lived in the woodthorpe/manor area, pretty f****d up at times but generally alright

Originally posted by "Moon Maiden"

I live in Hillsborough which is a quite friendly place. On the routes of both the blue and Yellow(meadowhall) trams aswell as having it's own little bus station now.
Has a very busy shopping centre aswell as Hillsborough barracks which houses a number of big name shops and a few independant ones too.
Amenities - we have a large park which has a pond with ducks, tennis courts and football fields (I think they are associated with the club next to the park) as well as a leisure centre too.
I rarely need to go into the city centre to find what I need that includes for clothes for me and the kids - the co-op has DP and Burtons.
There are at least four restaurants in the centre of Hillsborough - Indian, Italian, Cantonese and Spanish (I think) and few others as you go out of the main shopping centre.
We are a 10-30 min walk (depending on how fast you walk) from the start if the Rivelin Valey nature trail and buses leave on a regular basis going up to lady bower and the peak district.
If you want night life - the pubs are always extremely busy at the weekends and during the week too. You do not have far to stumble for your late night takeaway either.

Family wise - the amenities for kids are quite good. Lots of toddler groups and the schools although not ranked at the top - are high in the league tables. I can only speak for three schools myself.

erm......well that is my plug for the area

Moon Maiden

Where is the Bus Station Moon Maiden?

The bus station in hillsborough is on Langsett Road on the left as you pass through Hillsborough from Hillsborough corner. It's near the Barracks. There are the super tram stops near it aswell.

I work in Hillsborough and think it would be a good place to live as it has everything on the doorstep. Unable to afford to leave home I'm with my parents in fulwood (lucky me), a leafy area of the city. Known for being a more afluent area of the city it's a pretty quiet place to live. We've got a few important local shops and are on a main bus route but the nearest pubs are in Nethergreen and Ranmoor.
Broomhill is a good area. It's got a large shopping area and is a ten minute bus ride into town and a fifteen minute drive into the Peak District.

well i said about my area being f***ed up a bit back lol and today we got burgled, a bike with 1 pedal was all that got taken lol but they tried to get into the kitchen with a screwdriver lol.

This is a link that gives a bit of information about areas round about.

http://www.upmystreet.com

I live in Ecclesall and the area is nice. It is largely a quiet area with lots of trees and well kept gardens. Houses are mainly semis and detached, mainly nice looking traditional inter-war houses with big gardens. There are 2 of the best secondary schools in Sheffield here (Silverdale and High Storrs), as well as some of the best Primaries. House prices are expensive (for outside of London anyway) and the open countryside is but a short drive or even walk away. There are also plenty of amenities nearby, such as at Bents Green or further down the road (just outside of Ecclesall, mind) theres Banner Cross. The area has a nice suburban feel to it and usually the most activity is people gardening or washing their cars at the weekend. I like the fact that there is barely any trouble at all, though you still get the odd Chav causing trouble occasionally. I also like the fact that the area has a prestige associated with it (and before anyone says that's snobby, why do people buy Mercs, ay Max?).

I'm taking cover!

I currently live in Hillsborough! I agree it has everything, but if your buying... be very warned! A house we looked at was on the market for 69, 950 and it sold for 87, 500! Thats 17k Over the asking price!

I decided to move to Hackenthorpe, payed 7k over the asking price, but heh! The area looks quiet, but its quite far from town.
It has lots of local ammenities close by, like, Crystal peaks shopping centre, drake house retail park and not too far from meadowhall too!

It depends what your after! I seriously recommend you rent somewhere and take daytime walks around sheffield to find the palce for you! if you like it, search this forum... you will find lots of info on nearly every area in here!

Have fun!

live in crookes

ace place, easy for food, supermarkets, restaurants ect and brilliant pubs!!

Woodseats - Very good for pubs, parks, supermarkets, gyms, busses, takeaways, restaurants and easy access to town. On the downsisde, house prices are getting stupidly high, and you very very occasionally get drunken louts making a nuisance of themselves at chucking out time (although I must confess that I'm sometimes one of them).

Originally posted by Lickable
A house we looked at was on the market for 69, 950 and it sold for 87, 500! Thats 17k Over the asking price!


Well, £17,550 .... but who's counting?

The area has a nice suburban feel to it and usually the most activity is people gardening or washing their cars at the weekend

Ahh that really reminds me of when I was little... :) It's just how my area was, in the "good old days" :) I don't know if, as a child I didn't notice the undersirables, trouble makers and idiots but I certainly do now and it's such a shame... I have lived in Intake since I was two and the crime rate has gone up, as I have grown up... There's definately more kids hanging around on the streets at night and there's trouble, as there is everywhere...

t020's description of ecclesall is bang on, its a lovely place to be, I certainly feel safe when I'm around there. :P

Having been born and brought up in leafy Millhouses and total sububerban bliss of Whirlowdale Road, I have a distinct bias toward my part of Sheffield.

These parts have the most useful infrastruture links to the Peak District and town in the opposite direction, together with the most rapid rises in property this side of London, where i now live.

In terms of investment analysis of the sheffield market there is still money to be made in the commercial sector, with the domestic market taking a knock in terms of having peaked whilst sheffield was undergoing painstakingly slow development. Having been involved in the design of some of the most prestigiuos areas of the centre I would hazard a guess and suggest that loft living should have been introduced a long while ago, look at Leeds. City centre living is at an all time high.

That said, my area of choice would still be sheffield's supreme areas, in terms of overall ambience value Whirlowdale and Millhouses.
For sheer kicks it would have to be by one of the riverside pads, but then hey, that makes me a typical city boy with a country bumpkin mentality!!

The most fashionable area in Sheffield is now Kingswood Hall which is the conversion of the Old Middlewood Hospital the appartments are finished to the best quality that I have seen in Any of the City Living developments and I have been in them all and the overwelming view of the building is enough to make you buy even before you go inside and see the apartments and as for the clientel that live their well we have several sheffield wednesday players manageing directors etc so if its good enough for people who can afford to live anywhere they choose it must be the best place to live in sheffield anyone would love to live there so go and give it a look on the pj livsey web page under Kingswood Hall or go down and speak to the sales office to see for yourself but it will cost you as I said its the best place to live in sheffield

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Originally posted by MINTED
The most fashionable area in Sheffield is now Kingswood Hall

Oh man!!! Tell me you work for the developers?

I live in Firth Park and it would kick kingswood halls but.
I know firth park isnt exelent but its got everything clothes shops, somerfields,video shops, beer offs, vets even a wool shop.You can get busses to all over sheffield from there, your 10 mins from town and 5 mins from meadowhall. Im not being funny MINTED but u cant know sheffield 2 well cause why would you pay through your nose to live opposite winn gardens i know i wouldnt.

Originally posted by Moon Maiden
I live in Hillsborough which is a quite friendly place. On the routes of both the blue and Yellow(meadowhall) trams aswell as having it's own little bus station now.
Moon Maiden

Yes, Hillsborough is a bustling little place and the house prices, although a bit silly in some parts, are not yet stratospheric. I'm in Lower Walkley and it's easy to pop to Boots, Woolworths, Morrisons etc. in Hillsborough in about 20 minutes on foot - believe me, that takes some getting used to for someone who spent his childhood and teenage years in a Kentish village in the middle of nowhere with one shop and a bus twice a day if you were lucky...

The transport links are great, especially the tram - you can be at the University in about 10 minutes, the city centre in 15. It amazes me that the estate agents make a feature of this in the particulars for Crookes and Crosspool houses when, some mornings, it can take you half an hour to get down through Broomhill on the 52 bus or by car. Walkley/Hillsboro'/ Wadsley are never flagged up as "convenient for University and hospitals" when it's actually quicker from there.

The schools are never described as "reputable"... but they're not exactly bad. From what I can gather, Malin Bridge primary is OK and Sacred Heart and Rivelin primaries are good. I don't know about Hillsborough primary. Bradfield secondary rides high in the league tables (so it's sell-your-Grandma time if you want to get in), but a friend teaches at Wisewoood and sends her boys there too, and speaks highly of it. Nothing I have heard about Myers Grove, unfortunately, makes me that keen on it - quite the reverse, in fact.

The bloke we bought our house from described Hillsborough at night as as "lively", which sums up what people might like and dislike about it. You might feel you are in the centre of town, rather than a quiet suburb.

The frustration is that it could be nicer than it is - it's not pretty, esecially round Hillsboro' Corner with the boarded-up shops and the odd trolley chucked in the river. (Apparently they want to create a bit of a bistro/deli culture round there... well the "Hercule" deli didn't last long!...) Further up, past Co-Op, as you get towards the Park, it opens up a bit and is quite pleasant. The Park itself is very nice and well looked-after; my daughter and I were there at twilight on Sunday playing football and we felt very safe.

On the other hand, we were in Millhouses Park the other weekend and it felt... *cleaner*, somehow. And the boating lake and cafe there are a nice touch - a real family place with an interesting selection of things to eat. Hillsborough Park needs a nice cafe - problem is, I just know they'd make it a ghastly place selling burgers, chips and green pop, like the one at Rivelin. (The patronising assumption is that this is what the people of S6 would want, and not herbal tea and carrot-cake. Well, we're a herbal tea and carrot-cake family and proud of it!)

i live in woodhouse(3bed large house) and im looking to exchange to another area of sheffield
woodseats ,frazer estate meadowhead norton heeley etc if any1 interested please mail me sheffieldfem@aol.com
genuine replys only please thanks
Ange

Whats wrong with woodhouse????

I live in Hillsborough and think it's great. Great facilities, countryside on your doorstep, good schools (I can vouch for Malin Bridge and Wisewood comp) and excellent transport.

It also has nice houses. Lots are terraced and are like tardises..... much bigger on the inside than the exterior would have you believe.

Wouldn't want to live anywere else.

Originally posted by markt
Whats wrong with woodhouse????

Woodhouse Village is a dump, that's what... Only saving grace is that Woodhouse is served by the best Bus route in Sheffield, the number 52 from Crookes.

Hi,Kickqueen.Keep away from upper William st.We lived there when we were first married in 1962.3 doors down from us was a thriving brothel.We told the police but they were not interested.I now live in Western Canada,but I read in the International Express,that the Manor&Wybourn estates are police "No go"areas that are ruled by drug gangs&drug lords.

Originally posted by MINTED
The most fashionable area in Sheffield is now Kingswood Hall which is the conversion of the Old Middlewood Hospital the appartments are finished to the best quality that I have seen in Any of the City Living developments and I have been in them all and the overwelming view of the building is enough to make you buy even before you go inside and see the apartments and as for the clientel that live their well we have several sheffield wednesday players manageing directors etc so if its good enough for people who can afford to live anywhere they choose it must be the best place to live in sheffield anyone would love to live there so go and give it a look on the pj livsey web page under Kingswood Hall or go down and speak to the sales office to see for yourself but it will cost you as I said its the best place to live in sheffield

..Just letting you know- That was painful to read. At least you used the spacebar though eh..

Originally posted by markt
Whats wrong with woodhouse????

The Village is a dump, that's what, and the Village pub is a dive.

The Village is a dump, that's what, and the Village pub is a dive.

Lol you're telling me!!! lol! The badger estate with the matchbox houses really drags it down even more...

Originally posted by fuzbuz
I live in Firth Park and it would kick kingswood halls but.
I know firth park isnt exelent but its got everything clothes shops, somerfields,video shops, beer offs, vets even a wool shop.You can get busses to all over sheffield from there, your 10 mins from town and 5 mins from meadowhall. Im not being funny MINTED but u cant know sheffield 2 well cause why would you pay through your nose to live opposite winn gardens i know i wouldnt.

As a resident of Winn Gardens I would rather be here than dodging bullets in Firth Park. The Horseshoe pub at the top of Bellhouse Rd was shut down because of all the trouble. Also anyone brave enough to wander around Firth Park after dark must be either armed or recently evicted from the forensic unit of the old middlewood hospital and not know any better.

:loopy:
btw fuzbuz it appears the intellect of firth park tenants with regard to spelling and punctuation hasn't improved either.

Well having spent 11 years in Parson Cross I'm now up in Ranmoor/Fulwood area (and saving mega pounds on my car insurance as a result!)

Netherthorpe, and it's a nice place to live. Three nice parks within a couple of minutes walk, and close enough to city centre to walk which means I can leave the car at home most days! Places I have lived before include Ecclesall, Fir Vale, Abbeydale, and Broomhall.. and I prefer Netherthorpe to all of them!

I've lived in fir vale for 4 years and have found it to be very nice. There are some very good local shops so groceries, newsagents etc are close to hand. The chip shop is great, there are lots of takeaways and the shopping areas are usually busy so it feels safer to be around than if it went dead.

There are loads of community projects running in the area- community forums and neighborhood groups, the sheffield companions club for bar/ pub type social stuff, a youth centre, the school is very good and getting better, there is a sheffield colleeg site and just up barnsley road the brand new Longley [park 6th form college. There are adult education courses and evening classes, including english classes for people needing to improve their english skills. It is really easy to get to meadowhall, and close to the M1 for those trips out of sheffield. The busses into town are very very regular. We're right next to the hospital which was handy when my partner got bitten by our dog and we ahd to get to A+E!

The community is very mixed, with white, asian and african/carribean people all living in harmony- especially compared to som other areas where there can soemtimes be antagonism- we don't seem to get that here in fir vale.

There are green spaces to enjoy- crabtree ponds and roe woods, Osgathorpe Park, and other palying fields dotted around.

There are two mosques and two churches, both of which have various activities and opportunities to socialise. There are also social activities run from the northern general. Just up the road between fir vale and firth park is the clocktower and the old firth park library, both of which house various community projects and ativities.

We're also a short ride away from Concord leisure centre which has gentle exercise classes for older people.

We have 2 highly regarded GP surgeries and 2 or three pharmacies.

Overall, the council and the various service agencies- police, health, highways etc really seem to be committed to listening to what resdietns say and making improvements. Houses are being done up, roads re-surfaced, parks getting makeovers, the first community festival was this summer and had 4,000 people through the gate.

So I think fir vale is o.k.