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Is there easily available public access to certain historic information about Sheffield? My particular area of interest is the Parsons Cross estate. I've always been interested in when and by who the estate was built and how the streets got their names etc. Is this information publically accessible somewhere or do you have to be a Sheffield University scholar?

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Parson Cross not Parsons. Lots of  the roads are named after poets - Wordsworth, Keats, Dryden, Chaucer,  etc. Doe Royd after farm that was around there. A Library will have a copy of Peter Harvey's Street names of Sheffield. 

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Sheffield Council minutes are deposited at the Sheffield Archives on Shoreham Street.

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From the Sheffield Inependent  of 5th April 1938:

NAMING ROADS

No Reason Behind City's Choice

Street names for the Parson Cross Estate which will come before Sheffield Council for approval tomorrow
include Falstaff road, Launce road, Murdock road. Symons road. Bartlett road, Collinson road and Adrian
crescent.
A “Daily Independent" reporter tried to find out yesterday why these names were chosen.
“For no particular reason at all,“ explained an official of the City Engineers Department.  "In some cases a name  may he chosen for its strong local associations, but as new streets come along we think of names for them which are euphonius and suitable.
"UsuaIly the names chosen are Christlan names or surnames  or place names. We think of one and check up with the streets list to make sure it will not clash or cause confusion. We have a reserve list in case our ‘imaginations run dry"

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