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We have been set a challenge to try and find out information on Newton Square in Sheffield City Centre

Newton Square was maybe down the bottom of the moor somewhere around St Marys Church?

Can anyone help with information or photos etc please?

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I've found a reference 'next to Arundal (sic) Street'

https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?uidh=000&rank=1&new=1&so=3&msT=1&gsln=Holdall&gss=angs-d&MSAV=1&cp=0&cpxt=0&catBucket=rstp&db=mediaphotopublic&sbo=t&gsbco=Sweden&gl=&gst=&hc=50&noredir=true

Can't find it on the NLC online maps though (yet...)

..and...

Good old Google maps lists this as Newton Lane

https://goo.gl/maps/E6Uo51ZwS7s

Think it might have been built on by the 1880s

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2 hours ago, unrecordings said:

I've found a reference 'next to Arundal (sic) Street'

https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?uidh=000&rank=1&new=1&so=3&msT=1&gsln=Holdall&gss=angs-d&MSAV=1&cp=0&cpxt=0&catBucket=rstp&db=mediaphotopublic&sbo=t&gsbco=Sweden&gl=&gst=&hc=50&noredir=true

Can't find it on the NLC online maps though (yet...)

..and...

Good old Google maps lists this as Newton Lane

https://goo.gl/maps/E6Uo51ZwS7s

Think it might have been built on by the 1880s

From old-maps.co.uk:

Newton Square, off Newton Lane on an 1853 map (just to the left of the marker)

newton square 1853.jpg

and not there on a 1891 map, having become Courts 2 and 4 despite looking very similar.

newton unsquare 1891.jpg

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On ‎15‎/‎11‎/‎2017 at 09:54, Sheffield History said:

We have been set a challenge to try and find out information on Newton Square in Sheffield City Centre

Newton Square was maybe down the bottom of the moor somewhere around St Marys Church?

Can anyone help with information or photos etc please?

I think Newton Square is one of the courts showing on the map as its listed along with Newton Lane off Arundel Street, its only mentioned as this:  Newton square and lane, Arundel Street:  in the 1862 Whites Directory and I cant find it in the 1825,1833, 1849, 1856, 1879, 1893, 1901,1905 or the 1911 even Newton Lane is never listed with residents.

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Thanks for your help I find it very interesting my GG grand dad died on Newton Square in 1860 so it is nice to know where it is

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9 hours ago, Edmund said:

What did GG grandad die of?  The "Report on the Sanatory Condition of the Borough of Sheffield" in 1848 said:

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I know Ive read somewhere that a male resident living either in the square or lane was taken to court and fined for living in filth and not trying to keep his property in a clean and presentable state.

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