Calvin72 Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 On 04/01/2024 at 19:23, Ponytail said: Plan of the proposed alteration of the Course of the Porter, betwixt Smith Wood belonging to the Duke of Norfolk, and the Lands of D. Brammall. 1801. Numerical list of lands taken from the Duke and from D. Brammall, with acreages. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc02720&pos=69&action=zoom&id=92111 This is the section alongside Mary Street just before the river heads under Decathlon (heading out of town). The Fairbanks map of 1808 shows a short very straight section that still exists. I'm pretty sure I've seen a map that shows both the straightened section and the original meandering course, but I can't find which one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponytail Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 Ecclesall Inclosure (enclosure) M No. I - Crookesmoor, Little Sheffield, Little Sheffield Moor. 1788. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;y10001&pos=78&action=zoom&id=65488 Shows: Tapton Hill Road; Smith Wood Road; Fulwood Road ; Clarkehouse Road; Turnpike Roads; Young Street; Bishop Street; Tudor Street; Hereford Street; Bright Street; Cumberland Street; Porter Lane; Jessop Street; Earl Street; Rockingham Street; Button Labe; Carver Street; Duke Street; Norfolk Street. Also Porter Brook; Bennett Wheel (Little Sheffield Moor Wheel) and list of Names. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponytail Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 A map of the Dams, Goights and other Works belonging to the Pond Forge Co. together with some other intermediate properties. 1820. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04213&pos=73&action=zoom&id=105197 Boardman's Bridge, wear [weir], Porter Brook, goight, River Sheaf, Upper Dam, Sheaf Lane, bridge, Upper Forge Wheel, dam, Upper Forge, Sheaf Mill, steam engine, Lower Forge, grinding wheel, arched goight, tail goight, Shude Hill, Hospital Bridge, Hospitals, Sheaf Bridge, Castle Orchards Wear [weir], River Dun [River Don], Pond Street, Forge Lane, Pond Well Hill. Late Joseph Ward, John Hounsfield, Josiah Blackwell, late Abraham Wright, S. Woodcock and Sons, Joseph Blackburn, Thomas Mearbeck and Co., S. Rawson and Co. [?Thomas Rawson and Co], Joseph Shimmeld, John Vickers, Sheffield Gas Light Co., S. and S. Darwin, Sarah Beeley, Widow Beardsall, John Hale, Widow Badger, and J. B. Ward. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponytail Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 London Road. Completed layout of the streets in Rowland Hodgson's land, [c. 1818] arc04154 See also arc04153. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04154&pos=69&action=zoom&id=104100 Marked: William Stratford, William Cooper, Samuel Johnson, James Richardson, Samuel Mather, William Staley, Henry Lester, John Reaney, Thomas Burton, Henry Hewitt, John Cadman, Thomas Hounsfield, George Carnall, William Flockton, Catherine Younger, William Staley, Robert Marples, Jackson Frow, Michael Butler, David Craven, William Bunting, John and William Bridgens, Thomas Booker, T. Worstenholme, James Bowen or Bower, Robert Green, William Steadman, John Webster, William Cooper, William Beardstall?, Roger Brown and Sons, Jos. Garlick, George Turton, John Richardson, William Ashall, James Merryweather, George Hall, Jno. Gallimore, Joseph Bower, John Jackson, Joseph Hutchinson, Machin and Hall, Jos. Priest, William Hallewell, Young Sick Society, George Wild, Samuel Rogers, John Wright, William Roper, John Shead, Charles Gallimore, John Mayman, John Hewitt, Robert Walker, Joseph Twells, Joseph Bower, and Jno. Sheldon. Land measured for Rowland Hodgson, with new streets laid out - Hermitage Street, George Street (now Boston Street) and George Lane, [1817] arc04153. See also arc04154. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04153&pos=68&action=zoom&id=104099 Marked: 1 Samuel Newbould, 2 Samuel Johnson, 3 and 4 Thomas Jacklin, 5 Jonathan Crookes, 6 Jonathan Sherwood, 7 William Needham, 8 Thomas Worstenholm, 9 William Brown and George Carnall; also shows William Smith and Rowland Hodgson's gardens; and River Porter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponytail Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 Land of John Watson and T. B. Holy, Arundel Street, [1830] https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04032&pos=67&action=zoom&id=103277 Shows Bye Goight, River Porter, land sold by James Fernley to Ellin and Ingall; Pearson and Griffith; Josh. Houldsworth; Houldsworth Lane; and Thomas Booker. Lands of T. Holy on the south side of Sheffield, showing land schemed for gardens and roads, c. 1804 and 1818 https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04030&pos=65&action=zoom&id=103260 Shows Arundel Street, Furnival Street, Eyre Street, Charles Street, Browne Street [Brown Street], [Arundel Lane]. Refers to Daniel Darwent, Benjamin Hadfield, Robert Hide, Benjamin Raworth [Rayworth], Joseph Skinner, Thomas Potter, David Davey, Thomas Smith, Henry Froggatt, Joseph Cantrill, Josh. Skinner, William Butcher, William Morley, Firth and Co., Charles Hutchinson, Robert Colyer, Josh. Clarke, James Linley, Jonathan Helliwell, Robert Hide, Peter Frith, and William Colwell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponytail Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 Arundel Street. Section. Levels taken for a common sewer from Porter Street to the River Porter near the White Lead Works, [1825] https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04027&pos=63&action=zoom&id=103213 Refers to Arundel Street, end of Duke Street, end of Earl Street, end of Eyre Lane, Porter Lane, and a culvert. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponytail Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 Plans of the four closes between the River Porter, the River Sheaf, Leadmill Road and St Mary's Road / Lead mill dam, [c. 1808] https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc03418&pos=29&action=zoom&id=98681 White Lead Works and the fields between the River Porter and the River Sheaf, on either side of (modern Leadmill Road) Footpath across the four closes shows the future route of Suffolk Road. Pond Street (south end). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponytail Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 A plan of the Farm lately held of the Duke of Norfolk by Geo. Calton, with the Whitelead Works, etc. erected thereon. Date Period, 1800-1850 https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc03404&pos=28&action=zoom&id=98647 Fields between the Porter and the Coach-and-Six Farm and between the White Lead Works and the Corn Mill dam; Lead works and Cutler's Wheel clearly marked; numerical list with field names and descriptions and acreages; Proposed new course of the River Porter added, with new acreages listed. Dated from rentals. Coloured, on parchment. (Shoreham Street, Arundel Street, Brown Street, Furnival Street, White Lead Works, Leadmill Road, Leadmill Street, Matilda Lane, Matilda Street, Pond Street (south end), St Mary's Road) White Lead Works and the fields between the Porter and the Sheaf, on either side of (modern Leadmill Road) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponytail Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 Plan of building land near Pond Street to be sold by auction. 10th April 1860. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;y10792&pos=14&action=zoom&id=43291 Formerly the site of the Pond Tilt and Dam, containing 14,529 square yards or thereabouts, with two dwelling houses thereon fronting to Pond Street aforesaid, in the occupation of John Senior and Joseph Holmes. The land has extensive frontage to the River Porter, from which, as also from the River Sheaf, it has the right of water, and is well adapted for the erection of manufactories, breweries, and any business requiring water; or it could be advantageously laid out in building lots for dwelling houses. It is in a central situation, and easy approachable from the railway station and canal. Sale particulars for building land near Pond Street to be sold by auction. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;y10810&pos=17&action=zoom&id=71554 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponytail Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 The Ringinglow estate, the property of the late Thomas Rawson, 1827] https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc03946&pos=44&action=zoom&id=101954 Git Mottram: 1. Rough Smeltings and Croft, 2. House and garden, 3. Upper Smeltings, 4. Lower Smeltings. In hand, 5. New planting, 6. Bank plantation, 7 and 8. plantations, 9. Weigh house, 10. Rough plantation toll house and part cultivated, 11. Stack Garth Plantation, 12 - 14. Plantations, 15. Upper Lumb, 16. Lower Lumb, 17. Plantation adjoining Porter Brook. 18. plantation in Angram Lane. Richard Whitworth 19. Ringinglow Inn [later the Norfolk Arms], homestead, out buildings, yard and garden, 20. Stack Garth, 21. House Field, 22. Upper Planting field, 23. Cow Pasture, 24. Lamb Field, 25. Low Rye Field, 26. Rye Field. 27. Horse Pasture, 28. The Rough Banks; James Creswick, 29. Bottoms, 30. Well Bank, 31. Well Field, 32. Middle Common Piece, 33. Four Acre, 34. Barley Field, 35. Wiggin Field, 36. Bennet Field and Calf Croft, 37. Anise Field, 38. Planting Field, 39. Croft, 40. Homestead, house etc., 41. Old Field; Benjamin Fox, 42. Bank., 43. [black], 44. Broomhead Field, 45. Pingle. Thomas Watson, 46. Allotment. Also shows colliery, road from Grindleford Bridge [Sheephill Lane], Ringinglow Road, Barber Fields, road to Fulwood [Fulwood Lane], site of [Norfolk Arms], [toll house], house field, Angram Lane, road to Birks Green and road from Bower Hill [Cottage Lane?]. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponytail Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 Plan of estates at Rand Moor [Ranmoor] and Nether Green in the township of Upper Hallam the property of John Eyre. 1830. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc03994&pos=59&action=zoom&id=102815 1 Farm House with barns, stables, yards and gardens, 2 Small Croft, 3 Stackyard Field, 4 Upper Bank, 5 Broad Field, 6 Broad Field Bottom and Lower Bank, 7 Ibbotson Wood, 8 Four Days Work, 9 Broom Field, 10 part in the road, 11 Upper Lords Field, 13 Porter Wheel and ground open to it, 14 Woody Bank, 15 Dam, 16 Low Porter Field, 17 Middle Porter Field, 18 Middle Porter Field Bottom, 19 Near Porter Field Bottom, 20 Near Porter Field, 21 Rough Field and Fox Croft, 22 three dwelling houses with an outhouse yard and gardens, 23 garden, 24 farm house, yard, dwelling houses and garden, 25 House Field, 26 Woody Bank in [?House Field]. Names include Elizabeth Hawkesworth, John Beale, William Andrews, Susannah Ibbotson, George Stringer, Thomas Binney, Jos. Biggin, Hannah Elliott, George Parker, Edmund Wilson, Ebenezer Marsden, Geo. Worrall, William Fox, Mary Trippet, William Wilson. Shows Water Lane, Porter Bridge, road from Bents Green, road from Whiteley Wood, dam, Porter Wheel, Porter Brook, Ibbotsons Wheel, Ibbotson Wood, Spurgear Wheel Dam, road to Lydgate, road to Sheffield. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponytail Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 Plan of an estate in the Township of Upper Hallam, the property of William Silcock. 1825. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc03975&pos=58&action=zoom&id=102573 Surveyed by W. and J. Fairbank. Scale 0.5 inch : 1 chain. Shows road from Fulwood [possibly Old Fulwood Road / Fulwood Road], public house [possibly Blacksmiths Arms], road to Sheffield John Hodgson rsquo;s land, Hannah Heywood, Porter Brook, Samuel Mitchell and Co., Heald Wood, road to Whiteley Wood, road from Greystones [Highcliffe Road / Hangingwater Road]; Upper Plantation, Lower Plantation, Little Croft, Pingle, Whinney Bank, Wheat Field, Long Lands, Lower Field, Upper Field, Lily Croft, Lane Close, Dodge Field, Far Head, Near Heald, Upper Porter Field, Middle Porter field, Far Porter field, Near Porter Field. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponytail Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 Upper Forge (Forge Dam), Porter Brook at Ivy Cottage Lane, c. 1826 https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc06218&pos=56&action=zoom&id=102553 Detail from Plan of the Whiteley Wood Works and other property belonging to Samuel Mitchell and Co., [1826] (arc03974). Plan of the Whiteley Wood Works and other property belonging to Samuel Mitchell and Co., [1826] https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc03974&pos=55&action=zoom&id=102552 From left to right: Dam, Upper Forge, Old Dam, road from Brookhouse Green, wood, plantation, meadow, plantation, dam, Whiteley Wood works, forge, plantation, Bottoms Wood, The Heys, part of Dodge Field, part of Little Field, Woody, Croft, Holme Bank, dam, wheel, Porter Field, road to Sheffield and road to Nether Green. Key: In Upper Hallam - Forge Dam Banks and land adjoining, plantation, lower part of Dodge Field, Upper Holme Bank, Lower Holme Bank, road through Holme Bank, road along Porter field, Porter field, grinding wheel, dam goight banks, etc. In Ecclesall Bierlow - House Woody Bottom Lane and wood, plantation and goight, meadow, road along top of plantation, road through meadow, plantation and rad through, dams with the banks, Whiteley Wood Works Houses, Bottoms Wood, the Heys the part pasturable, road and remaining part, road from the Heys to Whitley Wood Chapel, plantation and chapel, part of Little Field, Woody Bank, Croft, road to the grinding wheel and Woody part adjoining the River. Whiteley Wood Works and Wire Mill Dam, Porter Brook, Whiteley Wood Road (formerly the works of Thomas Boulsover), c. 1826. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc06219&pos=57&action=zoom&id=102554 Detail from Plan of the Whiteley Wood Works and other property belonging to Samuel Mitchell and Co., [1826] (arc03974). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponytail Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 Plan of Whiteley Woods (Part 1) -section from Dead Lane to Forge Houses. 1897. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;y09356&pos=15&action=zoom&id=63677 Plan of Whiteley Woods (Part 2) -Whiteley Woods (Part 2) - section from Oakbrook Road to Dead Lane. 1897 https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;y09358&pos=16&action=zoom&id=63679 Plan of estates at Rand Moor [Ranmoor] and Nether Green in the township of Upper Hallam the property of John Eyre. 1830. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc03994&pos=59&action=zoom&id=102815 1. Farm House with barns, stables, yards and gardens, 2 Small Croft, 3 Stackyard Field, 4 Upper Bank, 5 Broad Field, 6 Broad Field Bottom and Lower Bank, 7 Ibbotson Wood, 8 Four Days Work, 9 Broom Field, 10 part in the road, 11 Upper Lords Field, 13 Porter Wheel and ground open to it, 14 Woody Bank, 15 Dam, 16 Low Porter Field, 17 Middle Porter Field, 18 Middle Porter Field Bottom, 19 Near Porter Field Bottom, 20 Near Porter Field, 21 Rough Field and Fox Croft, 22 three dwelling houses with an outhouse yard and gardens, 23 garden, 24 farm house, yard, dwelling houses and garden, 25 House Field, 26 Woody Bank in [?House Field]. Names include Elizabeth Hawkesworth, John Beale, William Andrews, Susannah Ibbotson, George Stringer, Thomas Binney, Jos. Biggin, Hannah Elliott, George Parker, Edmund Wilson, Ebenezer Marsden, Geo. Worrall, William Fox, Mary Trippet, William Wilson. Shows Water Lane, Porter Bridge, road from Bents Green, Road from Whiteley Wood, Dam, Porter Wheel, Porter Brook, Ibbotsons Wheel, Ibbotson Wood, Spurgear Wheel Dam, Road to Lydgate, Road to Sheffield. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponytail Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 On 04/01/2024 at 22:15, Ponytail said: A plan of two Closes held under the Duke of Norfolk by Benjamin Roebuck, with Silvester Wheel [Sylvester Wheel] and the adjoining Damms (sic) and Gardens in John Wilson's possession, [c. 1760-1770] https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc03285&pos=87&action=zoom&id=98446 Upper and Lower Dams, Wheel and Weirs clearly shown; includes two closes to the north of the dams; numerical list with tenants, descriptions and acreages; coloured, on parchment. Sylvester Wheel and the closes to the south (these closes adjoin those in the section above; the wheel was on the Porter Brook near modern Sylvester Street). (Alsop Lane, Earl Lane, Earl Street, Eyre Street, Jessop Lane, Jessop Street, Sylvester Street) Silvester Wheel with the Dams and Appurtenances held of the Earl of Surrey by John Wilson. 1784. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc03286&pos=88&action=zoom&id=98447 Wheel, Dams and Gardens clearly shown; measurements of gardens Sylvester Wheel and the closes to the south (these closes adjoin those in the section above; the wheel was on the Porter Brook near modern Sylvester Street). A plan of the Stand Ley Closes, etc. 1790. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc03414&pos=92&action=zoom&id=98650 The closes adjoining those shown in arc03415 with an outline of the Sylvester Wheel and Dams; Tenants and acreages given. (St. Mary's Road, Charlotte Road, Clough Road, Clough House Lane, Hereford Street, Sylvester Street, Mary Street, Midland Lane, Margaret Street, Shoreham Street) [Sylvester Wheel and the closes to the south (these closes adjoin those in the section above; the wheel was on the Porter Brook near modern Sylvester Street] Plan of the Duke of Norfolk's land in Alsop Fields and at Sylvester Wheel divided into lots for sale. 1804. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04029&pos=64&action=zoom&id=103259 The plan shows the plots bought and the later building schemes. Shows Hereford Street, Cumberland Street, Jessop Street, Silvester Street [Sylvester Street], Arundel Street, Furnival Street, Porter Lane, Eyre Street, Duke Street, [Porter Brook], new cut, lsquo;old course of the river rsquo;, bridge, wear [weir]. Refers to Thomas Holy, George Rhodes, Joshua Holdsworth, John Watson, James Bean, Isaac Smith, Robert Mills, William Tyson, Ann Fox, Joseph Waterhouse, Michael Riley, Sarah [Broomhouse?], Edward Maden / Madin, Samuel Kirkby, John Gillott, Malin Gillot, William Howson, Dr. Firth, [?R. Cindell], E. W. Drury, John Hornden, M.D., Thomas Warburton, Joseph Herrings, George Prior, William Littlewood, Joseph Smith. Plan of certain freehold land near Sylvester Wheel, the property of Thomas Holy. 1831. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04273&pos=75&action=zoom&id=105747 Marked: Sylvester Street, Sylvester Wheel, River Porter, upper dam, lower dam, land sold to Earl Fitzwilliam, Ellin Lane, tail goight, Arundel Street, Arundel Lane, Jessop Street, Eyre Lane, and Earl Street. Estates of the late Joseph Ellin, esquire, very valuable freehold building land, villa residences, works and dwelling-houses in and near Sheffield. 1868. (property near Sylvester Wheel) https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;y11246&pos=59&action=zoom&id=82993 Bramall Lane; New Hereford Street; Sylvester Street; River Porter; Jessop Street; Eyre Lane; Jessop Lane; Arundel Street; tail goit. Messrs Robertson & Carr; Executors of the late William Butterell & John Snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southside Posted February 8 Share Posted February 8 1849: Map of the area Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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