Myself and my partner are looking at a property to buy in Stocksbridge at present and I wondered if anyone had any knowledge of the area. We are in S6 at the moment and would like to stay but can't find what we need at the right price etc.
Whats the nightlife like (if any)?
What' the crime rate like?
Schools (first born on the way)?
etc etc
Well I have been there over a year now, never seen any crime.
Nightlife! What nightlife?
Schools seem okay, you can look up the school information on the web.
I have found the area to be very nice and quiet, I mean you wouldn't be able to get any closer to the peak district without paying extortionate house prices.
very close comunity (my step mums whole family live within a stones throw of each other litrally)
good schools! night life alright more clubby pubs on main road #, but the further up you get the quieter it gets. Good golf course. and if you get one- amazing view! easpecially when snowing!!
good food shop (lidl) very cheap food and good value!!
great place to live!!!
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Well, of course Tony is speaking from the super safe refuge of the big city, which of course has such beautiful crime free areas such as Parsons Cross, Southey Green, Manor, Arbourthorne and of course the ultra clean city centre. NOT! Mad Max alludes at interbreeding which is of course the warped view of someone who has got nowt better to do than type crap into a computer. The crime rate is very low, mainly because everyone knows who the bad eggs are. We have far superior air quality and were surprised at the friendliness as soon as we moved here. We get snow when the city gets sleet and the hills look very pretty, and when we don't have snow we call it "Summer". The steelworks is not a problem. If you buy a house overlooking it then thats your choice of course. There are plenty of reasonably priced properties in the valley with views over farmland. Of course there are many parts of the city with this option. Glossop is 30 min away (Crystal Peaks is 45mins), Penistone likewise. We like it and won't have any city stick in the mud slagging it off. You don't need crampons anymore than Walkley and Crookes residents. Its a breath of fresh air up here in the cold north.
Originally posted by The Zeppelin Well, of course Tony is speaking from the super safe refuge of the big city, which of course has such beautiful crime free areas such as Parsons Cross, Southey Green, Manor, Arbourthorne and of course the ultra clean city centre. NOT!
Tony is speaking as a resident of the Lodge Moor/ Fulwood area of the city which is virtually crime free and very clean and tidy. Much more pleasant than Stocksbridge IMO, which is just a steel making village full of inbreds and soon to be a ghost town when the steel works closes down.
(though lets not turn this into a Stocksbridge Vs Sheffield thread)
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Well actually I quite like it and have a few pals there. What I meant was that nightlife, crime and schools consist of kids hanging around on the street corners. That is true isn't it, or are you saying that there is more nightlife, more crime and schools that don't have kids?
Lodge Moor/Fulwood has leafy streets and avenues. Not great open views of the countryside though I hasten to add. Kids do hang on street corners, even in Dore. There were around 20 sat behind a bus stop one night last week amid empty green bottles, but then I'm no more an expert on the leafy des. res. areas of Sheffield than you are on North Sheffield. I actually live at Deepcar where incidentally 400 private houses are soon to be being built under the picturesque Wharnecliffe Crags. The burglars won't have to travel from the city into Stocksbridge anymore, they have 400 new homes to have a go at marginally closer to home. The steelworks is not closing entirely, parts of it are closing. Some jobs are going true, and as an employee of Corus who works at both Rotherham and Stocksbridge I can safely assure you that you are generalising and reading the headline only. If you look at the smaller print below, you will learn more. Whatever, I will still see sheep and cows grazing the stone walled hills every morning from my kitchen window, this I am happy with.
Ecclesall, Dore, Fulwood, Lodge Moor are all on the edge of the Peak District actually. Fulwood also looks over the Mayfield Valley. I know that I can walk up the road for 10 mins and be on the edge of the Burbage Moors, which are, incidentally, pylon and steelwork free.
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Don't be so defensive Zeppelin! I said I liked it! But... if you want to be competitive...
In fact, there are plenty of views up here in Fulwood / Lodge Moor, far more than there are in the valley of Stocksbridge. I suspect that the views where I live are the best in the City - from the Peak District to the Humber!
As I am from North Sheffield originally I suspect that I may have known the area far longer than you as an "incomer".
Glad that you mentioned Wharncliffe Craggs. When I was younger, they were a regular hang out via Green Wood, Hall Wood and Greno’ Wood and I have been up and down the Cragg via Jacobs Ladder many times. I remember we once found a fox’s skeleton in the cave which caused lots of excitement at the possibility of the dragon that was rumoured to live there. (Yes I was that young!).
As for Deepcar, my father was the Community Bobby there for many years, and I bought my first car from Scholeys. Went to the College in Stockbridge for a very short time, and have run / cycled through the area loads. Dropping down Finkle Street on the bike from Wortley was a high speed blast with lots of frenetic braking and banking as you got to the Chequered Bridge. That was before the bypass was built though, so you probably won't know what I'm talking about.
... cycling up Jawbone was another matter!
A senior manager at the Works is a pal, and they have a nice lifestyle up by the dams. I'm generally aware of the situation there because my pal is one of those tasked with sorting it out.
Now if you re-read my original message I was basically saying that there is little crime, and that's it’s a nice place to live and there are lots of nice people. If all you have to worry about is kids on corners, I think that you are very lucky.
You do seem to have adopted the Valley Mentality quite quickly though!
to20 Ecclesall, Dore, and Fulwood maybe all be on the edge of the Peak District but you pay about 4 TIMES THE PRICE for the same size property as you would in Stocksbridge.
Plus the views aren't quite the same, Eccleshall, Dore and Fulwood is all surburbia, so are full of housing estates. So all you get is a view of the rest of the houses, and oooh maybe a glimpse of a field.
Also why does it matter there is a Steelworks in the valley? It is part of Stocksbridge history. The plant is clean and noise is kept to a minimum.
Also as the Zepplin says, the Steelworks isn't shutting as the HEADLINES have said. Parts of the plant are staying open, some jobs will be lost yes but that is what happens with modernisation and recentralisation. You work over at Aldwarke then the Zepplin?
Originally posted by Skatiechik I agree with everything the Zepplin as said.
to20 Ecclesall, Dore, and Fulwood maybe all be on the edge of the Peak District but you pay about 4 TIMES THE PRICE for the same size property as you would in Stocksbridge.
Plus the views aren't quite the same, Eccleshall, Dore and Fulwood is all surburbia, so are full of housing estates. So all you get is a view of the rest of the houses, and oooh maybe a glimpse of a field.
Also why does it matter there is a Steelworks in the valley? It is part of Stocksbridge history. The plant is clean and noise is kept to a minimum.
Also as the Zepplin says, the Steelworks isn't shutting as the HEADLINES have said. Parts of the plant are staying open, some jobs will be lost yes but that is what happens with modernisation and recentralisation. You work over at Aldwarke then the Zepplin?
Housing ESTATES? Don't use that term please. Streets, roads, avenues, etc... not ESTATES.
It matters that a steelworks is there because it spoils the views, along with all the pylons and a big, busy bypass.
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Originally posted by max Of course they're estates. What else would you call roads lined with similar houses all built at the same time by the same developer?
Thank you Max. I couldn't be arsed arguing that point with the stuck up wannabe upper class toss pot. Not tonight anyway!
However you have stepped in and posted what I was thinking... t020 grow up man!
By the way I saw a young chap driving recently up your neck of the woods with a car number plate that started T020 (can't remember the last letters). Not you by any chance was it?
What else would you call roads lined with similar houses all built at the same time by the same developer?
