Cleakam / Cleakham Inn

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Map showing the position of the Cleakam (Cleakham) Inn, above Green Lane near to Morton Wheel. Not to be confused with Cleakum Inn at Malin Bridge. 

Plan of lands in dispute between the townships of Sheffield and Nether Hallam describing them as they were in the year 1783 according to a survey thereof made by the late William Fairbank of Sheffield.

Dated 1826.

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The ground concerned includes Upperthorp [Upperthorpe], Port Mahon, Nether Thorp [Netherthorpe] and the land between White House Lane (Infirmary Road) and Morton Wheels.

Includes John Addy's house, Lidgate Field, Shales Moor Close, White House Lane or Walkley Road, Penistone Turnpike Road, old road from Owlerton to Sheffield, Green lane, Cleakam Inn, Morton Wheel and Morton Wheel Dam, River Dun and Bacon's Island etc. 

 

Cornish Street was previously known as Cleakham Wheel Road. 

A plan of the building lot in Cleakham Wheel Road [Cornish Street] taken of Thomas Shepherd by Henry Ibbotson. 1823.

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Globe Works shown.

 

Sheffield History A-Z Public Houses List:

Cleakham Inn, Cornish Place. 

Open 1800    Closed     Span

Comments: open circa 1800; 1822 Cleakem Inn, Green Lane

1822 Amelia Facey/Faser/Fraser

1825 Thomas Hobley

According to Michael Liversidge in his book "The definitive A-Z listing of Sheffield Public Houses. 

"...the only known fact was that the landlord was the owner of a bowling green, which was attached to the Cleakham. A Thomas Hobley or Thomas Copley was the landlord in 1839."