Does anybody know what spital means in spital hill

[Highnote 10]

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"

[algy 11]

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

[auzilink28 10]

You were told correct.

 

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

[Leper 10]

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

[Falls 10]

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

[grinder 10]

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 ?

Edited November 8, 2009 by grinder