Windmill Lane Sheffield.

[Grubshifter 10]

Does anybody know where the windmill was which Windmill Lane at Shiregreen/Pismire Hill was named after?

[pitsmoorboy 17]

Does anybody know where the windmill was which Windmill Lane at Shiregreen/Pismire Hill was named after?

 

I think it was blown away. just like our paper shop.

[gene 10]

Supposed to have been on the site of the allotments.

[hillsbro 32]

In the book Street Names of Sheffield, Peter Harvey states that "an old windmill stood nearby. In the 1856 directory Robert Thorpe is listed as miller". The mill cannot have been a very large one as it isn't shown on old large-scale maps that would normally have shown a windmill, such as this one of the 1840s that shows only a group of houses on "Windmill Hill". There may have been a small windmill there, the location being about where the allotments are now, as gene wrote.