does anybody know what spitl means as in spital hill

Hospital .... short form :D

rubydazzler is correct
In the days when Sheffield castle still existed, The Wicker and surrounding area was open fields / flat grassland, with the River Don running down one side.

All the tournaments (jousting etc.) and celebrations, held by the castle, took place on the Wicker fields (known as Wicker Green) - due to it being one of the few flat areas and directly outside the castle walls. There was a small hospital, of sorts, on Hospital Hill - later shortened to Spital Hill.

Nursery Street is where the garden nursery for the castle was. Hence the name Nursery Street.

Hate to contemplate the derivation of Penistone Road, or Effingham Road.

Hi All
As you walk up Spital Hill on the left hand side there is an entrance leading to a tip, the left hand side of the entrance that was were the hospital was so i was told

Hospital .... short form :D

Nobody likes a clever bugger yer know, Ruby Duby. ;)

Hi All
As you walk up Spital Hill on the left hand side there is an entrance leading to a tip, the left hand side of the entrance that was were the hospital was so i was told

You were told correct.

im not sure but went in a few pubs there when i lived in sheffield worked on removals all use to drink there

Nobody likes a clever bugger yer know, Ruby Duby. ;)Is that it? I wondered why no-one liked me :(

Why didn't they call Hossie Hill? We'd all have known what they meant then. :)

Hospital .... short form :D

And not just Sheffield. Spitalfields (London), Spital Tongue (Newcastle)

And not just Sheffield. Spitalfields (London), Spital Tongue (Newcastle)

Hy yu right lad wont only Sheffield that had hospitals

In my Dictionary of British Place Names, it says the word spital or spittle was used for a "low class hospital of hospice,one that catered for beggars and the poor"

The hospital was founded in the 12th Century by William de Lovetot, the Lord of the Manor, and was dedicated to St. Leonard.

You were told correct.

The living are concious they will die, the dead are concious of nothing.

Sme living people can't spell and the dead don't care a s*it.

And not just Sheffield. Spitalfields (London), Spital Tongue (Newcastle)

Your post mentioned Spitalfields in London but there was one in Sheffield.

This ran from Nursery Street to a junction with both Stanley Street and the bottom of Brunswick Road. It was a relatively short street but did run in the general direction of where most historians believe the St Leonards Hospice was located.

If you are looking for a land mark, the Nursery Street end started at the Manchester Hotel which I think is still there: Maybe with another name. The rest disapeared when they built the new by-pass.

Regards

Sorry totaly different subject really but just wondered;

Remember reading some time ago that the only bit of the old London road you could still see/walk on was out the back door of (which used to be to the front door ) the Albion on London road.
Are the cobbles still there ?