My nomination is Smithy Wood Crescent.

It winds up a near-vertical slope between Woodseats Road and the Homebase on Chesterfield Road and every house is built in a different style.

There's even some prefab type bungalows at the top that are built of Lego.

Alastair

Kent Road in Heeley is pretty amazing. It's reputed to be the steepest in Sheffield.

I always think Cobden View Road in Crookes is a bit odd - so many numbers are missing, you just wonder where they all went :)

Cobden road woodseats is good for a laugh. Extremely steep, dissappears up into the woods where it reduces to a crazy slippy pathway with a barrier to grip onto, half way up there is an old fashioned water pump and devillled trees which could be from lord of the rings. and on the other side of the barrier is a former cobbled road (extremely steep and greasy) with trees growing out of it which is closed to traffic. Some builders have recently built some bizzarre houses high up there which look like sheffield's version of amityville. They have a spring meandering in and out of little bridges and styles in the small front garden.

If that wasn't enough, the road emerges unscathed as cobden road at the other end of the path as if nothing else had happeded at norton lees. The joining up bit is so spooky it's like the valley of death!

Now I've set the scene, here's the real crazy bit. Until a couple of years ago, all road atlasses showed cobden as a complete road which you could drive up to get up to norton, and there is usually a constant stream of traffic reversing back down very carefully with their drivers looking confused and cross.
Legend says that the road was opened briefly during the last war, and may have been a cart track a century ago..

Your right gatecrasher I meant Cobnar well spotted

Muddycoffee. I think you mean Cobnar Road and I quite like the houses they have built at the top.

We used to train in Graves Park on a Monday night and our "warm up run" used to involve climbing the mountain that is Cobnar!! Twas fun. Not.

Originally posted by alchresearch
Kent Road in Heeley is pretty amazing. It's reputed to be the steepest in Sheffield.

Hey, we've already had this debate and it lost fair and square to Blake Street. ;)

Bell Hagg Road, I think. It has an odd name.

Alex

Not steep, but Little London Road is a weird one.
Starting at Arnold Leaver on Chesterfield, going under the railway line twice, and arriving on Woodseats Road with a massive turn. It's way zig zaggy and is very useful, pity they fooked it up with that junction near Virgin Active.

not exactly in Sheff but still -
Butt Hole Road (http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?GridE=-1.21160&GridN=53.48483&client=public&lon=-1.21160&lat=53.48483&place=Butt+Hole+Road,+DN12,+CONISBROUGH&db=GB&local=&type=&start=&limit=&overviewmap=&scale=5000&lang=&db=GB)

Originally posted by Phanerothyme
not exactly in Sheff but still -
Butt Hole Road (http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?GridE=-1.21160&GridN=53.48483&client=public&lon=-1.21160&lat=53.48483&place=Butt+Hole+Road,+DN12,+CONISBROUGH&db=GB&local=&type=&start=&limit=&overviewmap=&scale=5000&lang=&db=GB)


HAHAHAHAHAHA! Surely that's got to affect house prices on that road?!

Originally posted by muddycoffee
Cobden road woodseats is good for a laugh. Extremely steep, dissappears up into the woods where it reduces to a crazy slippy pathway with a barrier to grip onto, half way up there is an old fashioned water pump and devillled trees which could be from lord of the rings. and on the other side of the barrier is a former cobbled road (extremely steep and greasy) with trees growing out of it which is closed to traffic. .......

Is this it? (http://www.picturesheffield.co.uk/cgi-bin/hpac.pl?_cgifunction=form&_layout=picturesheffield&keyval=sheff.id=995)

Originally posted by Phanerothyme
not exactly in Sheff but still -
Butt Hole Road (http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?GridE=-1.21160&GridN=53.48483&client=public&lon=-1.21160&lat=53.48483&place=Butt+Hole+Road,+DN12,+CONISBROUGH&db=GB&local=&type=&start=&limit=&overviewmap=&scale=5000&lang=&db=GB)

My friend lived on the road in the 90's. She said the road sign was always being stolen!

K x

Originally posted by Strix
Is this it? (http://www.picturesheffield.co.uk/cgi-bin/hpac.pl?_cgifunction=form&_layout=picturesheffield&keyval=sheff.id=995)
Yes that is a side view of the middle bit, the scarey footpath, but before it had massive trees there and was slimy, must have been a centuary ago. You can see the rail. And the water pump, which is still there.
The upper part of the view it totally different now. The path northward is long gone, and banked up to hold the road up which now goes above, to serve the extra houses which are now there.

Originally posted by Lickszz
Hey, we've already had this debate and it lost fair and square to Blake Street. ;)

Slightly different discussion to steepest road - which road gains most altitude from lowest point to highest point? (just residential - I think there might be some main roads that beat my nomination)

I'd vote Jenkin Road - and if I walk home from work, I walk the length (or should that be height) of it - good view at the top though.

Originally posted by alchresearch
Kent Road in Heeley is pretty amazing. It's reputed to be the steepest in Sheffield.

I'd re-open Kent Road, force every Learner Driver to go up it and get them to practice their handbrake starts!! That'd get 'em used to clutch control.

Infact, looking at the road for some reason makes me quite nervous, always has done.

Originally posted by Kristian
My friend lived on the road in the 90's. She said the road sign was always being stolen!

K x

Prices are said to have well and truly bottomed out on Butt Hole Road. It's kicked up a bit of a stink with the residents who are angry at being given such a bum deal.

It's also incredibly windy there....,

Originally posted by Ousetunes
Prices are said to have well and truly bottomed out on Butt Hole Road. It's kicked up a bit of a stink with the residents who are angry at being given such a bum deal.

It's also incredibly windy there....,

Fantastic, if there's a bad joke about Butt Hole Road, I'm yet to hear it!

What about that road in nether edge (the name eludes me) with a tree in the middle of the road!

Originally posted by Ousetunes
I'd re-open Kent Road, force every Learner Driver to go up it and get them to practice their handbrake starts!! That'd get 'em used to clutch control.

Infact, looking at the road for some reason makes me quite nervous, always has done.

I didn't know it was closed. That's made me really sad, for my devil of a driving instructor took me on there for hill starts and even a 3 point turn!

I'd also like to nominate Colliery Road near Meadowhall. It's a one way street that has the scariest bendy tunnel in it that is always unlit and strewn with rubbish. It runs between Brightside Lane and Holywell Road.


Could we have some pictures of these streets when we've found a dozen or so, we could then do a poll.

Originally posted by Lickszz
Hey, we've already had this debate and it lost fair and square to Blake Street. ;)
Blake Steet is the steepest, but Kent Road looks the steepest as you can stand on Rushdale Road and see it going down, and then up again. The perspective makes the far side look almost vertical.

Just of Sheffield Road in Rotherham (leading the the viaduct roundabout) is Dead Mans Hole Lane - the (slightly warped) mind bogles...
I agree about Colliery Road - very dark and always home to someone's rubbish, also has some very strange graffiti about the IRA.

Originally posted by Nathen
What about that road in nether edge (the name eludes me) with a tree in the middle of the road!

I believe it's Ryle Road.

K x

Butt hole road is quality - you pass it on way to Donny from Conisbrough

There is Pocket Handkerchief lane near Wentworth you can guess why its called that

Originally posted by Phanerothyme
not exactly in Sheff but still -
Butt Hole Road (http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?GridE=-1.21160&GridN=53.48483&client=public&lon=-1.21160&lat=53.48483&place=Butt+Hole+Road,+DN12,+CONISBROUGH&db=GB&local=&type=&start=&limit=&overviewmap=&scale=5000&lang=&db=GB)

Look here (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v390/hjdary/44R80450.jpg)

The road from Oughtibridge up to High Bradfield used to be a bit disconcerting for strangers. Half way up Burton Lane you take a blind right bend and find yourself in a farmyard, - and with all the cow muck etc. it was hard to tell where exactly the road went.

Seen a few do a three point turn and head back down the hill :D

Originally posted by Greybeard
The road from Oughtibridge up to High Bradfield used to be a bit disconcerting for strangers. Half way up Burton Lane you take a blind right bend and find yourself in a farmyard, - and with all the cow muck etc. it was hard to tell where exactly the road went
Isn't that haggstones road at worral. There is a strange bend which just gets tighter and tighter <shiver>as if you are being sucked into a spiral, and there's little warning, and it's like being in the Prisoner, no escape. </shiver> :confused:

I would have to say Tom lane it is so boring its weird un its kinda long

My nomination for the weirdest road in Sheffield has got to be the Mosborough Parkway (I think they call it that). This is at the end where you join the Sheffield Parkway. The road surface is made up of waves, almost like a concrete sea. Probably the worst part is as you drive back up towards Woodhouse from the Sheffield Parkway. Your car gets a jerking as you hit some of the bumps. Council service vehicles keep appearing now and then,and the mandatory cones, but they must be preparing for a surf-boarding contest; as no changes or resurfacing are ever evident. It would probably all have to be gouged out and then filled with layer upon layer to make any impact.
My advice to the Council would be: "Don't make waves!"

Originally posted by Yodameister
Slightly different discussion to steepest road - which road gains most altitude from lowest point to highest point? (just residential - I think there might be some main roads that beat my nomination)

I'd vote Jenkin Road - and if I walk home from work, I walk the length (or should that be height) of it - good view at the top though.

Could be Jenkin, how abouty Prince of Wales Road, or City Road?

blake street or rivelin street got to be steepiest in sheffield

I don't know about the weirdest road, but that road that goes parallel to Whites Lane and finishes near the golf club at the Sheffield Road traffic lights is THE place to get abducted by aliens at night.

If they ever made such a film, that would be the place to shoot it.

I agree with one of the earlier posters ---Smithywood Road at Woodseats is pretty weird.Also there are some pretty weird roads leading from the Neepsend area and going up towards Shirecliffe and one or two others round there.
When I was a kid I also used to try and spot streets in the city that had absolutely no buildings on them , due to the Blitz . The only one I saw for years was a little street off Shoreham Street----I think it was called Margaret street---at least it began with "M" ---I think !

I would have to nominate Albert Road in Heeley/Meersbrook purely because it seems to change 'personalities' as you walk up it, different kinds of housing, trees in some places, gardens, no gardens...it's like walking up 3 or 4 different roads and it's HUGE

I used to live right at the top and it was well creepy walking up it late at night

My nomination for the weirdest road would be Cliff Road at walkley. If anyone has had the misfortune to go down that road in icy weather you'll know what I mean. As the name suggests it has to be the steepest residential road in the city.

Blake Street is seriously steep - although it has lost its truly weird title since the very weird Blake Hotel closed. Anyone know whether this dodgly little pub is going to open again?

I'd also like to nominate Colliery Road near Meadowhall. It's a one way street that has the scariest bendy tunnel in it that is always unlit and strewn with rubbish. It runs between Brightside Lane and Holywell Road.


Could we have some pictures of these streets when we've found a dozen or so, we could then do a poll.

Here's some photos of the very odd (and very low-bridged) Colliery Road (http://www.pberry.plus.com/ukroads/road_trips/sheffield/colliery_road/).

Kent Road in Heeley is pretty amazing. It's reputed to be the steepest in Sheffield.
I second that that is a crazy hill

Here's some photos of the very odd (and very low-bridged) Colliery Road (http://www.pberry.plus.com/ukroads/road_trips/sheffield/colliery_road/).

creepy, is it one way hence the no entry signs on the south side?

Without doubt Shoreham Street every other Saturday afternoon, several thousand weirdo's in red & white:hihi: :hihi: :hihi:

a bit off thread - but has anyone noticed on the left the road coming out of Mablethorpe named " Fanny Hand Lane ". Wots all that about then ????:huh: :huh: :huh:

There is the little road called Clyde Road which branches off Broadfield Road and twists around to go under the railway bridge to Chesterfield Road. At one bend where it faces the river Sheaf and turns right, there were two pairs of wooden gates fixed into the wall over the river--now replaced by iron grilles. I was told that these were used in the past to open to sweep the snow off the road into the river in severe winters. I wonder if there are other examples of such gates by Sheffield rivers where roads run alongside them.

I don't know about weird but, being from flat Lincolnshire, I often wonder how long-ago developers looked at some of Sheffield's hills and thought "Yep. we can get houses on to that slope". I'm thinking especially of some of the side roads off South Road in Walkley, for example. They look like they should slide down into the valley below.

Cobden road woodseats is good for a laugh. Extremely steep, dissappears up into the woods where it reduces to a crazy slippy pathway with a barrier to grip onto, half way up there is an old fashioned water pump and devillled trees which could be from lord of the rings. and on the other side of the barrier is a former cobbled road (extremely steep and greasy) with trees growing out of it which is closed to traffic. Some builders have recently built some bizzarre houses high up there which look like sheffield's version of amityville. They have a spring meandering in and out of little bridges and styles in the small front garden.

If that wasn't enough, the road emerges unscathed as cobden road at the other end of the path as if nothing else had happeded at norton lees. The joining up bit is so spooky it's like the valley of death!

Now I've set the scene, here's the real crazy bit. Until a couple of years ago, all road atlasses showed cobden as a complete road which you could drive up to get up to norton, and there is usually a constant stream of traffic reversing back down very carefully with their drivers looking confused and cross.
Legend says that the road was opened briefly during the last war, and may have been a cart track a century ago..

Your right gatecrasher I meant Cobnar well spotted

Ah, Cobnar road.

What a fun place. We didn't look at a house up there when we were house-hunting. Well, we were meant to, but when we parked outside the house we discovered that our car's handbrake, which coped perfectly well in the flat fenlands of cambridgeshire, wasn't quite strong enough for Sheffield...

That was a bit of a shock.

Colliery Road this road runs from Brightside Lane just before the railway bridge to Hollywell Road. It bends a bit has a bery low railway bridge almost a tunnell on it . It is one way from Brightside Lane and is some times blocked by dumped rubish.

Here's some photos of the very odd (and very low-bridged) Colliery Road (http://www.pberry.plus.com/ukroads/road_trips/sheffield/colliery_road/).

Ta for that, I've not been down in ages! The North Portal picture is my favourite.

Myrtle Road @ Heeley is fairly step, recall first day out driving for Aston Express around Christmas 96. Snow came down got stuck going up, was a mini bus so no weight on rear wheels and chickened out of reversing back down. A lovely couple asked me into their house for a coffee and sandwich whilst waiting for the thaw and a fitter to arrive who took it back down!

Granville Rd is pretty steep as bus routes go. When I was a kid all out of city routes turned off just after the college onto Fitzwalter Rd, then City Rd. Was always interesting when one met the Wood house circle I think which also went in down Fitwalter.

As for sky jump roads what about Rutland Rd and at the top theres another ramp upto Shirecliffe.

Had a few tight frosty moments in Crookes on Springsvale Rd not normally a bus route but school buses go that way.
Thinking of my days with Sheffield Omnibus, their route 94 took a tour of Brightside up Dearne St, across Stupton Rd and down Jenkin Rd. Boy they struggled round there though I never had to get the passengers off to allow further progress as some did. Ah Stumpton Rd, little darlings from the the playground chucked a brick at bus one evening, just missed me!

Further on that route is the cliff face of Merton Rd and Newman Rd too.

One last drag what about the solid climb upto Stannington from Malin Bridge, should have built tram line up there I reckon.

rbrt

East Bank Rd was always the test route for new buses, and if they made it to service probably ended up on route 51. It was my first route to drive back then for SUT when it still went to Herdings near the Cutlers. Their version only ran to City when it was possible to spin on the island at the top of Church St / Leopold St.. bit tight with those ex Edinburgh 'shed's without power steering!

Thinking of hill starts, though not regular test but Advanced, my examiner made me stop and start on Gleadless Rd, below the former Ashleigh School, bless him!

Cobnar Rd, used to vist a friend of my mother's near the top of the Woodseats end, remember my dad 'chocking' a wheel as well as the handbrake and in gear. Bit lazy we could have walked from our then home on Holmhirst Rd.

rbrt

My nomination for the weirdest road in Sheffield has got to be the Mosborough Parkway (I think they call it that). This is at the end where you join the Sheffield Parkway. The road surface is made up of waves

all this area is on bogland and prone to subsidence (trust Sheffield to build a major road on a swamp!)

Colliery Road this road runs from Brightside Lane just before the railway bridge to Hollywell Road.

Just off the subject, i nominate this road, the last place i'd like to breakdown in my car

I always think Cobden View Road in Crookes is a bit odd - so many numbers are missing, you just wonder where they all went :)

I wasnt around at the time, but i think the Lufftewaffe had something to do with it, same everywhere around Walkley aswell

And finally, my vote for wierdest road in Sheffield....well 2 choices, Fitzhubert Road and Queen Mary Road...reason: after the redevelopment of this area (Manor) , someone decided not to rename anypart of them, and there are approx 9 sections of Fitzhubert Road, and around 5 sections of Queen Mary Road....poor posties

I would say certain parts of Jenkin Road could be the steepest. There's some long hauls all over but you need a pick axe and and crampons for the corners on Jenkin. The weirdest road however could be mine in the early hours of Fri/Sat when I'm one my way home :)

It's not a weird road, but the name of it is.... car sick hill road. LOL

Nice....

Firshill Crescent has to be the most tortuous road I've ever been on. More curves than ...

also....Marley Road, Warley Road, same road, but in the A-z: its wrong , Tom Tom: its wrong, Phone Book: its wrong,.......so whos right???

go get your a-z, then drive up city road, turn left onto manor lane, then 1st right, and see whos in the wrong!

Streetmap and Multimap have it as Warley Road, Google Maps as Marley Road. Probably a transcription error. What does the physical street sign say?

There is now a Broad Street West (runs from Park Square to corner of old Setts Markets), according to the new street sign.

Also, there is no Beaumont Road for there to be a North of, if you get what I mean.

Just of Sheffield Road in Rotherham (leading the the viaduct roundabout) is Dead Mans Hole Lane - the (slightly warped) mind bogles...
I agree about Colliery Road - very dark and always home to someone's rubbish, also has some very strange graffiti about the IRA.

Deadmans Hole Lane may have something to do with the old Roman camp that used to be there, called Morbium (now Templeborough). It was apparently so-called because everytime the Romans tried to cross the Don, the Celts killed them off from the ridge and Celtic base in Wincobank - the locals were a rough bunch right back then! :D

I'd re-open Kent Road, force every Learner Driver to go up it and get them to practice their handbrake starts!! That'd get 'em used to clutch control.

Infact, looking at the road for some reason makes me quite nervous, always has done.

Kent Road (http://www.pberry.plus.com/directions/kent_road.jpeg), from the Meersbrook end.

I have to say daffodil road on the flower estate is the wierdest I have seen.

It was on my post round a couple of years back, all of the houses have been demolished apart from one. Not sure if it will still be there now though.

The quirkiness of Kent Road (http://www.pberry.plus.com/photos/kent_road/). :)

That's a great photoessay, pberry. You're a roadophiliac, obviously. Is it a professional interest or merely personal?

Pete

That's a great photoessay, pberry. You're a roadophiliac, obviously. Is it a professional interest or merely personal?

Cheers Pete. It's just a hobby. I always like going for a walk around towns and cities: there's such a concentration of interesting bits and bobs if you keep your eyes open. And what are they without buildings and roads? ;)

I do software testing for my sins. :)

Granville Street:hihi: This is the one that used to go behind the Midland Railway Station, its weired because the road name sign is still there on the wall on the railway side but the road no longer exsist's as the tram now runs down it:hihi:

Can I nominate Kenworthy Road aka "Hellfire Pass" in Stocksbridge. The only known recorded case of a dustbin being chained and padlocked, presumably to stop the neighbours stealing the ashes (OK this was in 1974).

i used to think the bottom of east bank road was wicked when you were on an eager beaver 64 up the bumpy road lol.

There is Pocket Handkerchief lane near Wentworth you can guess why its called that

Why, I'm intrigued.

Don't know if I should post this as

A) it is sort of off topic

and

B) could be seen as offensive. It is of an adult nature. There was a C*** Lane in Oxford until quite recently.

Mods, please feel free to delete this if you think it is inappropriate.

Strange named streets (http://www.answers.com/topic/gropecunt-lane)

i would nominate meadow terrace which is just off sharrow vale road. i discovered this quaint little street whilst out walking a couple of weeks ago. it felt like i was in a time warp and a million miles from being just around the corner from the bustling ecclesall road.

I hate the new burngreave road layout

i would nominate meadow terrace which is just off sharrow vale road. i discovered this quaint little street whilst out walking a couple of weeks ago. it felt like i was in a time warp and a million miles from being just around the corner from the bustling ecclesall road.

Agree with that, I went to look at a house to buy on there a few years ago it was completely weird, the house was tiny and an odd shape with a river running a few feet from the back wall, I couldn't get away fast enough, but there were literally loads of people interested in it, mainly with blue hair and ironmongery through the nose though . . . . . Like a little alternative community down there I think...

i would nominate meadow terrace which is just off sharrow vale road. i discovered this quaint little street whilst out walking a couple of weeks ago. it felt like i was in a time warp and a million miles from being just around the corner from the bustling ecclesall road.

Meadow Terrace is a little gem. The streets round Hunters Bar are packed pretty tightly anyway but to squeeze in another row between the backs of two streets must have been quite a challenge. It must be fun parking down there. Porter Terrace is a little backwater as well, pun intended, and the top end of that row of houses backs directly onto Meadow Terrace behind the Porter Cottage.

Grope**** Lane was quite a common street name in the Middle Ages, the history is fascinating. look it up on Wikipedia to find out more.

You can just search for Grope Lane, Wikipedia is smart like that.

Don't know if I should post this as

A) it is sort of off topic

and

B) could be seen as offensive. It is of an adult nature. There was a C*** Lane in Oxford until quite recently.

Mods, please feel free to delete this if you think it is inappropriate.

Strange named streets (http://www.answers.com/topic/gropecunt-lane)

Meadow Terrace is a little gem. The streets round Hunters Bar are packed pretty tightly anyway but to squeeze in another row between the backs of two streets must have been quite a challenge. It must be fun parking down there. Porter Terrace is a little backwater as well, pun intended, and the top end of that row of houses backs directly onto Meadow Terrace behind the Porter Cottage.

it's a pity the wheelie bins clutter it up and make now, I suppose those houses have no front to back yard access so they have to be stored on the street.

Some builders have recently built some bizzarre houses high up there which look like sheffield's version of amityville. They have a spring meandering in and out of little bridges and styles in the small front garden.

Your right gatecrasher I meant Cobnar well spotted

One of the unusual houses is for sale:

http://www2.vebra.com/spencers/SALES/DETAILS/103Cobnar.pdf

Funny street names. How about this one, some part of the police headquarters is built there.

http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?client=public&X=440000&Y=389000&width=700&height=400&gride=436486.190500185&gridn=387810.33834698&srec=0&coordsys=gb&db=freegaz&addr1=&addr2=&addr3=&pc=&advanced=&local=&localinfosel=&kw=&inmap=&table=&ovtype=&keepicon=true&zm=0&scale=25000&multimap.x=356&multimap.y=212

If you can't be bothered clicking on the link, it's called Letsby Avenue.


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It may be an urban myth, but the story behind Letsby Avenue is that when the Sheffield airport was being built the police decided a new station nearby was needed. So it was built and the access road was made. The Ordnance Survey is always keen to update their maps and heard of it, it was still unnamed, so when the station was phoned by an official of the OS asking the name (so the story goes) the chap who answered just replied as a joke--and when asked to spell the name did so as Letsby Avenue.

If anyone knows better I stand correction.

i would nominate meadow terrace which is just off sharrow vale road. i discovered this quaint little street whilst out walking a couple of weeks ago. it felt like i was in a time warp and a million miles from being just around the corner from the bustling ecclesall road.

I'm never one to miss an opportunity to promote my thread ( http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=139834 ) - Meadow Terrace is featured in Episode 2, Series 3 of "I didn't know you cared" - here's a screen grab:

http://www.yootha.com/unclemort/images/grab/S3E2_Meadow_Terrace_2.JPG

i would nominate meadow terrace which is just off sharrow vale road. i discovered this quaint little street whilst out walking a couple of weeks ago. it felt like i was in a time warp and a million miles from being just around the corner from the bustling ecclesall road.

I love Meadow Terrace and nearly bought a house there a few years ago. Me and my mates drink in the Porter Cottage all the time and walk down it to get there, we call it Coronation Street!

I love meadow terrace too.. its just too cute!!!

Couldn't afford to buy a house there so ended up in meersbrook.

Wow! This thread is great! :thumbsup:

Being a foreigner "exiled" in Sheffield for the spring, I´ve now made a list of these roads so I can go see them. :)

The steepness of many roads are still to my amazement. I also had the displeasure of having my car break down going down Upperthorpe. Tried to get it towed back home to Longfield Road but that wasn´t possible due to the steepness!

Oh, btw, I´m Swedish ;)

it's a pity the wheelie bins clutter it up and make now, I suppose those houses have no front to back yard access so they have to be stored on the street.

your right about the wheelie bins cluttering up the place. i remember walking past the entrance to meadow terrace and instantly feeling the urge to walk down and see the place. if it wasn't for the wheelie bins everywhere i could quite easily have convinced myself i had gone back in time. it was very strange but in a nice way.

Which clown at Sheffield City Council decided Mellor Lea Farm Garth was a suitable name for a road? :loopy:

flodden street in crookes is not that unusual apart from it is not very long. however if you look in the sheffield a-z and look up flodden street in the index and then turn to the correct page it can be awkward to spot. it is there but it takes a little while to spot it.

Surprised nobody has mentioned 'Bunting Nook' in Norton. Always seemed creepy when I have walked down there.

I'll also give 'Olivet Road' in Woodseats a mention, it goes from being very flat to the steepest road ever! :confused:

Im not a kerbcrawler or a pro, but has anyone seen Cross Smithfield (I think) in the red light area, how spooky?

Which clown at Sheffield City Council decided Mellor Lea Farm Garth was a suitable name for a road? :loopy:

the same wally that named "Royd Field Drive" at waterthorpe..


Royd...? that means field

field .. erm.. = field, too...


so that road's name means "field-field drive" ! talk about crackers!

Wow! This thread is great! :thumbsup:

Being a foreigner "exiled" in Sheffield for the spring, I´ve now made a list of these roads so I can go see them. :)

The steepness of many roads are still to my amazement. I also had the displeasure of having my car break down going down Upperthorpe. Tried to get it towed back home to Longfield Road but that wasn´t possible due to the steepness!

Oh, btw, I´m Swedish ;)

wow whats it like where u live normally then, no hills and everlasting cars lol.

Well, I usually live in Swedens third biggest town Malmö (on the other side of the straight from Copenhagen) and that town is flat like a pancake (Swedish saying) so towing cars all across town is no problem ;)

The towns in Sweden do look a lot different from UK. Mostly because people in Sweden prefer flats in the inner cities.
What strikes me most is the huge area occupied by housing compared to Swedish towns.

Well, sorry for the OT ;)

Hm... I can´t post my pretty links due to me being a noob ;)

Well, try this:

www malmo se (add dots)

Then click on the english flag in the left menu (not in the top) then click the top link in the menu: "Malmö - city of diversity and possibilities".

Then also try the link all the way down in the menu: Image library to see some nice pics of Malmö.

Quite different from Sheffield, agree?

I don't know about 'weird' but Vauxhall Close S9 has to be the shortest road I've ever seen - it's only got 2 houses on it.

I don't know about 'weird' but Vauxhall Close S9 has to be the shortest road I've ever seen - it's only got 2 houses on it.

That road used to be called something else didn't it? Something Street?

That road used to be called something else didn't it? Something Street?

Ooh I don't know, although Short Street would probably have been appropriate.

Ooh I don't know, although Short Street would probably have been appropriate.

I'm sure it was a surname beginning with A. I may be wrong... :)

Edit: It is/was Asquith Road, S9 1LL.

I'm sure it was a surname beginning with A. I may be wrong... :)

Edit: It is/was Asquith Road, S9 1LL.

You're right y'know. Asquith Road still lives and was the road I'd got in mind - Vauxhall Close is the nearest road on Google maps and I just blindly copied the name over here.

Duh.

I heard that someone had been taking photos in various districts and concluded that Kent Rd., Heeley is the strangest road in Sheffield. Can anyone shed light on where I can find these pictures? Allegedly my house is visible on a couple...

hit the "search" button

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and input the subject you're looking for, and it should bring up the thread you want, confusingly, it has the same name as this thread, IIRC.

Mod Note: Threads merged.

no it's archer road that leads onto sandford grove! Drivers are in a world of their own!! Driving down via left or right!!! never mind going straight on from ashland road!!!

I heard that someone had been taking photos in various districts and concluded that Kent Rd., Heeley is the strangest road in Sheffield. Can anyone shed light on where I can find these pictures? Allegedly my house is visible on a couple...

http://www.pberry.plus.com/photos/kent_road/

I've thought of a few more I can add as well, so check back later in the week.