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Sheffield is a city in South Yorkshire, built across seven hills where five rivers meet — the Don, Sheaf, Porter, Rivelin and Loxley — with a population of around 560,000, making it one of the largest cities in England. The fast-flowing rivers powered hundreds of water-driven grinding wheels and forges from the medieval period, and Sheffield was already famous for cutlery by the fourteenth century — Chaucer's Miller in The Canterbury Tales carries a Sheffield thwitel, or knife.
The city's name became synonymous with steel. Benjamin Huntsman perfected crucible steel here in the 1740s, producing metal of unprecedented quality; Thomas Boulsover invented Sheffield Plate, fusing silver onto copper, around 1743; Henry Bessemer's converter made mass steel production possible from his Sheffield works in the 1850s; and in 1913 Harry Brearley discovered stainless steel at the Brown Firth laboratories, transforming everything from cutlery to surgery. Made in Sheffield became a global mark of quality, and the city's steel went into ships, railways and armaments worldwide. Specialist steel and advanced manufacturing continue today, particularly through the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre on the former Orgreave site.
Sheffield holds a unique place in the history of football. Sheffield FC, founded in 1857, is recognised by FIFA as the oldest football club in the world, and Hallam FC's Sandygate is the oldest ground still in use. The city's clubs developed many features of the modern game — the crossbar, the corner kick and the free kick were all part of the Sheffield Rules — and the first-ever inter-club fixture was played here in 1860. Sheffield United and Sheffield Wednesday carry the city's fierce footballing rivalry, and the Crucible Theatre has hosted the World Snooker Championship since 1977.
The city has a strong musical identity — the Human League, Def Leppard, ABC, Pulp, Richard Hawley and Arctic Monkeys all came out of Sheffield — and a remarkable amount of green space: a third of the city lies within the Peak District National Park, and Sheffield has more trees per person than almost any city in Europe. The Winter Garden, one of the largest temperate glasshouses built in Britain in the past century, and the Botanical Gardens are among its landmarks.
Sheffield sits close to the M1 with Sheffield station giving services to London St Pancras in around two hours, and the Supertram network running across the city. Housing ranges from Victorian villas in Broomhill, Ranmoor and Nether Edge to vast terraces across Crookes, Walkley and Heeley, post-war estates including the listed brutalist Park Hill, and extensive city centre regeneration.






