Ecclesall

Coordinates: 53°21′43″N 1°29′53″W / 53.362°N 1.498°W / 53.362; -1.498
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Ecclesall
Metropolitan county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
UK Parliament
CouncillorsRoger Davison (Liberal Democrats)
Barbara Masters (Liberal Democrats)
Shaffaq Mohammed (Liberal Democrats)
List of places
UK
England
Yorkshire
53°21′43″N 1°29′53″W / 53.362°N 1.498°W / 53.362; -1.498

Ecclesall Ward—which includes the

Parliamentary constituency. The Member of Parliament is Olivia Blake, a Labour MP. Ecclesall is one of the least socially deprived wards in the entire country, with a 2002 deprivation score of 4.7—making it the 8,105th most deprived (hence 309th least deprived) ward out of 8,414 wards in the country.[citation needed
] The demographic consists largely of white, middle-class families.

History

Evidence of early occupation of the area can be found in Ecclesall Woods. A cup and ring-marked stone was discovered in 1981, and has been dated to the late Neolithic or Bronze Age periods. It, and the area a 2-metre (6 ft 7 in) diameter around it, is a scheduled ancient monument.[3][4]

Ecclesall electoral ward was created 1934 when the old Ecclesall Bierlow ward was divided into Ecclesall, Broomhill and Hallam.

The boundaries of the ward include about half of the area that was historically known as Ecclesall Bierlow—one of the six 'townships' that made up the old Parish of Sheffield. Ecclesall Bierlow encompassed most of the land between the

Crookesmoor to the north of Porter Brook. Though this area contained numerous small villages and hamlets, there was never a village called Ecclesall. The parish of Ecclesall was formed on 1 April 1904 from "Ecclesall Bierlow",[5] on 1 April 1933 the parish was abolished and merged with Sheffield.[6] In 1931 the parish had a population of 203,892.[7] It is now in the unparished area
of Sheffield.

In ancient times this area was part of the

Egbert of Wessex at nearby Dore
in 829.

Dissolution of the Monasteries
when Beauchief Abbey was abandoned. The chapel was restored in 1622 but was demolished when the present church was built nearby in 1788.

Until the 19th century Ecclesall Bierlow was very sparsely populated—in 1801 there were just 5362 people. This changed with the coming of the

Nether Edge. In 1929 the Ecclesall Bierlow Workhouse was renamed Nether Edge Hospital
and it remained in use as a hospital into the 1990s.

Historic sites within the ward include Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet and Shepherd Wheel (both now museums). Ecclesall Wood has many examples of white coal kilns and the grave of a wood collier who was killed here when his cabin burned down on 11 October 1786.

Neighbourhoods

Banner Cross is a district of Sheffield centred on the intersection of Ecclesall Road and Psalter Lane. This district is split evenly between Nether Edge and Ecclesall Wards. Banner Cross Hall, an ancient esquire seat, was virtually rebuilt in 1820. The main place of worship is Banner Cross Methodist Church. The nearby Banner Cross pub gained infamy when the notorious criminal Charles Peace shot and killed Arthur Dyson in the passageway beside the pub on 29 November 1876. The base of an old stone cross still remained at Banner Cross in 1819.[10] Addy (1888)[11] suggested that the name derives from bæna kross, meaning the cross of prayers.

Carter Knowle

Carter Knowle or Carterknowle (

Sheffield College's Bannerdale campus, but after its closure and demolition, a new educational academy, the Mercia School was opened on the site adjacent to Carter Knowle Road in September 2018.[12]

Ecclesall

The district of Ecclesall (grid reference SK323844) is centred roughly on Ecclesall parish church at the intersection of Carter Knowle Road and Ecclesall Road. The present church, dedicated to All Saints, was built in 1788, consecrated in 1789 and has been altered several times since. Banner Cross Hall, also in the area, was built in 1820.

Greystones

Greystones (grid reference SK322851) lies to the north of the district of Ecclesall. It is on a headland overlooking the Porter valley to the north and west.

Millhouses

Main article: Millhouses

Millhouses (grid reference SK330833) lies to the south of the district of Ecclesall. Its origins lie in a small hamlet that grew around the Ecclesall Corn Mill.

Bents Green

Bents Green (grid reference SK316843) lies to the west of the district of Ecclesall

Ringinglow

Main article: Ringinglow

Ringinglow (grid reference SK290837) is a village on the western border of Ecclesall Ward. Although it is within the boundary of the City of Sheffield, it is self-contained, entirely surrounded by open countryside. It is focussed on the intersections of Fulwood Lane and Houndkirk Road with Ringinglow Road.

Transport

Ecclesall Road is the main road (

Sheffield Supertram
currently has no routes through Ecclesall ward, but a planned extension to Dore would skirt the southern boundary.

Parks and recreation

About half of Ecclesall ward is made up of rural areas, parkland, or woodland. These areas include a large portion of the 350-acre (140 ha)

Whiteley Woods and part of the Porter valley; Millhouses Park marks the ward's southern boundary. The ward also includes some of Whirlow Brook Park and the Limb Valley. The Sheffield Round Walk
skirts the ward, running through a number of these parks.

Education

There are two secondary schools within Ecclesall ward,

High Storrs School and Silverdale School
. The ward also includes Ecclesall Primary School (formerly Ecclesall Infants) and Clifford All Saints C Of E Primary School (formerly Ecclesall Junior School), Dobcroft Junior School, Greystones Primary School, Mylnhurst Convent School, and St Wilfrid's Primary School.

References and notes

  1. ^ "Key Facts About Ecclesall Ward". Local Information System & Data Observatory. Local Area Statistics Online Service. Archived from the original on 7 March 2012. Retrieved 28 July 2010.
  2. ^ "City of Sheffield ward population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 10 March 2016.
  3. ^ "Archaeology of Ecclesall Woods" (PDF). Heritage Woods Online. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 June 2006. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
  4. ^ Historic England. "Cup and ring marked rock 740m east of Park Head House, Sheffield – 1018265 (1018265)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 12 December 2016.
  5. ^ "Relationships and changes Ecclesall CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
  6. ^ "Ecclesall Bierlow Registration District". UKBMD. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
  7. ^ "Population statistics Ecclesall CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
  8. ^ Addy, Sidney Oldall (1898). "Chapter X: Mythological Place-Names". The Hall of Waltheof, Or, The Early Condition and Settlement of Hallamshire. Sheffield: William Townsend and Son. (wikisource)
  9. ^ Goodall, Armitage C. (1913). "Eccles, Ecclesall, Ecclesfield, Eccleshill, Exley". Place-Names of South-West Yorkshire; that is, of so much of the West Riding as lies south of the Aire from Keighley onwards. Cambridge: University Press.
  10. ^ Hunter, Joseph (1819). Hallamshire. The History and Topography of the Parish of Sheffield in the County of York. London: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mayor & Jones. p. 204. This book is out of print but can be purchased on CD-ROM Archived 22 November 2005 at the Wayback Machine.
  11. ^ Addy, Sidney Oldall (1888). A Glossary of Words Used in the Neighbourhood of Sheffield. Including a Selection of Local Names, and Some Notices of Folk-Lore, Games, and Customs. London: Trubner & Co. for the English Dialect Society. (transcription at Wikisource)
  12. ^ "Mercia School: The Sheffield school with family lunches, longer days and self study all designed to give pupils the best start". www.thestar.co.uk. Retrieved 19 March 2020.

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