Which is the steepest road in Sheffield?

[Slacker1969 10]

Prospect Place, Bradway.

[I1L2T3 10]

On 12/01/2017 at 20:56, Fudbeer said:

 

Winnats in Derbyshire is much steeper than 10.9 even the average is 12.1 and a considerable part near the top is over 20% up to 28% I have cycled up both Hagg and winnats and its much tougher imo.

 

http://veloviewer.com/segment/990240/Winnats+Pass+Hill+Climb

Moss Road at Totley is 10.5% gradient sustained over almost 0.8miles

 

Great for running training 

[Beauchiefs 10]

Denton Rd Woodseats is pretty steep, anyone know where it comes on list off steepest?

[sedith 19]

I live quite close to the steepest road in the UK,m 1 in 4 with two hairpins ... Porlock Hill in West Somerset.

[gandlandk 0]

Inspired by this forum discussion, I have recently undertaken a challenge to ride up all of the steepest hills in Sheffield. My findings can be seen in this blog: http://sheffield-hills.blogspot.com/

 

In this, I used this forum to set a list of 25 roads (originally 26, but I think whoever suggested Gleadless Road must have been joking!) from those mentioned most often. I have now cycled all of them, though admittedly on an eBike since I am fat and old. 

 

I found most phone based GPS or mapping sites to be fairly inaccurate - especially for the shorter roads. Strava, in particular, struggled with this - I eventually found that using Google Maps for elevation (since it measured it in feet rather than metres) and PlotaRoute for distance to be the best combination to give an accurate gradient calculation. This combination certainly matched my own view of which ones were steepest after having ridden them. It may not match the accuracy of the BBC's measurements, but I think is certainly good enough to get comparative readings for the 25 hills on my list.

 

To spoil the surprise, neither Hagg Hill, Blake Street nor Jenkin Road came out top...

[Longcol 604]

28 minutes ago, gandlandk said:

Inspired by this forum discussion, I have recently undertaken a challenge to ride up all of the steepest hills in Sheffield. My findings can be seen in this blog: http://sheffield-hills.blogspot.com/

 

In this, I used this forum to set a list of 25 roads (originally 26, but I think whoever suggested Gleadless Road must have been joking!) from those mentioned most often. I have now cycled all of them, though admittedly on an eBike since I am fat and old. 

 

I found most phone based GPS or mapping sites to be fairly inaccurate - especially for the shorter roads. Strava, in particular, struggled with this - I eventually found that using Google Maps for elevation (since it measured it in feet rather than metres) and PlotaRoute for distance to be the best combination to give an accurate gradient calculation. This combination certainly matched my own view of which ones were steepest after having ridden them. It may not match the accuracy of the BBC's measurements, but I think is certainly good enough to get comparative readings for the 25 hills on my list.

 

To spoil the surprise, neither Hagg Hill, Blake Street nor Jenkin Road came out top...

Thank you - really interesting.

 

Lived at the top of Wellfield Road from 1991 - 2018 and still reckon Blake Street was the steepest - or certainly the hardest to walk up - that concave section from just below Boyce Street up til about 20 yards from the pub was a killer.

 

There's a road with a similar profile to Blake Street where we live now in France - ie going down in a car there is a section of the road below you that you can't see!

 

Thank you once again for your efforts - much appreciated.

[choogling 14]

From my bike pedalling days, long over, I still rate Bishops court rd. Meersbrook as the steepest residential road in Sheffield. Its the only road in the whole of Sheffield i could not restart again after stopping for a rest. 

I notice Kent rd. also in Meersbrook  gets a mention but a low score ,Kent road  in the sixties was cobbled  so I never tried riding up it.

 

 

On 15/01/2017 at 16:35, SteelHouse said:

I know it's not the steepest per se...but for the cyclists...try Carr Rd, from Deepcar all the way up to Bolsterstone...long steep drag, couple of "rest points" where it probably drops off to about 6 or 7%, it's not the steepness, but the leg busting length and its one continuous hill..the bottom bit is especially tough, and while we are out in Deepcar/Stocksbridge...try Nanny Hill from the main road, up past the clock tower all the way to Stocksbridge park Steels ground..another tester!!! Oh and Hole House Lane, from main road, up pas the school..its all hills out there!

You forgot the bicycle hill climb road course  Pea Royd lane Deepcar/Stocksbridge, not sure of the district but it might even go into the  Barnsley area at the top.

 

[Ant68 21]

Doesnt Blake Street have a handhail running up the side of the pavement??

 

Back in the ‘80s id drink in the Blake at the top, my then gf’s uncle or cousin ran it.

 

Luckily we got there from Walkley and not from the bottom of the hill !!

[gandlandk 0]

14 hours ago, choogling said:

From my bike pedalling days, long over, I still rate Bishops court rd. Meersbrook as the steepest residential road in Sheffield. Its the only road in the whole of Sheffield i could not restart again after stopping for a rest. 

I notice Kent rd. also in Meersbrook  gets a mention but a low score ,Kent road  in the sixties was cobbled  so I never tried riding up it.

 

 

 

 

Kent Road came fifth on my list, so definitely one of the steepest. Bishopscourt Road came in ninth. Heeley/Meersbrook is one of those areas that seems to have lots of really steep roads.

 

15 hours ago, Longcol said:

Thank you - really interesting.

 

Lived at the top of Wellfield Road from 1991 - 2018 and still reckon Blake Street was the steepest - or certainly the hardest to walk up - that concave section from just below Boyce Street up til about 20 yards from the pub was a killer.

 

There's a road with a similar profile to Blake Street where we live now in France - ie going down in a car there is a section of the road below you that you can't see!

 

Thank you once again for your efforts - much appreciated.

Glad you found it interesting!

 

What you say about Blake Street being the harder of the two definitely rings true. Wellfield Road is significantly shorter, so overall it would be an 'easier' walk or cycle - the extra distance definitely adds significantly to the difficulty factor. Wellfield is only 6% steeper, but Blake is 45% longer!

[creweblade 10]

Lived at top of Blake st in my uni days in  mid 80's and had a clapped out escort - started it a few times by taking the hand brake off in second and was in real trouble if not running by half way down! Pub was great then and to be fair still is now - landlord was a polish guy who owned the shop opposite the boozer - great times