It has an altar-piece by Paris, representing Christ blessing little children. They tilled the fields around the town. In the 1950s and 1960s slum clearance in Sheffield continued. In the 16th century, Sheffield became far more famous for its cutlery. Towards the end of the 20th century the 'satellite' communities of Dronfield, Mosborough, Chapeltown and Stocksbridge grew rapidly. "SHEFFIELD, a parish, market town, municipal and parliamentary borough, and chief seat of the hardware manufacture, in the upper division of Strafforth wapentake, and the capital of the ancient liberty of Hallamshire, West Riding county York, 50 miles S.S.W. Market days are Tuesday and Saturday. Sheffield was founded in the early 12th century by the Lord of the manor, William de Lovetot. The barracks, completed in 1854, for cavalry and infantry, are in the Tudor style, and occupy a site of 25 acres, with entrances from the Langsett and Peniston roads. By the standards of the time, it was a large town. The parochial register dates from 1560. Sheffield was made a city in 1893. A branch canal, 4 miles long, was cut in 1819, communicating with the Don, or Dun, at Tinsley, thus affording direct water communication with the river system of the Trent and Humber, and so with the seaports of Goole, Hull, and Great Grimsby. These houses were literally joined back to back without even an alley between them. It is under the direction of a governor, who is also chaplain, a head and second master, and thirteen other teachers, and has accommodation for 250 boarders. The first theatre in Sheffield was built in 1763. The city also has around 250 parks, woodland areas and gardens, including Crookes Park, Norfolk Heritage Park and the Botanical Gardens. Though far from Sheffield’s residential areas, High Stones is still within the boundaries of Sheffield and South Yorkshire. Sheffield is a city with a population of about 550,000, located in South Yorkshire. However, there were several other towns noted for cutlery. In 1843 Sheffield was given a charter (a document giving the townspeople certain rights). Both brothers became bishops. These facts are just a hint of how interesting and fun life in Sheffield … It was, however, about fifty years later, when Sheffield became the mart of Hancock's plated goods, that the great development of trade took place. New York had the highest population of Sheffield families in 1840. From the eastern foot of these hills to the borders of Derbyshire stretches the parish of Sheffield, including the six townships of Nether Hallam, Upper Hallam, Ecclesall Bierlow, Sheffield, Brightside Bierlow, and Attercliffe-cum-Darnal, with the curacies of Dyer's Hill, Eldon, Fulwood, Heeley, Holliscroft, Moorfields, Pitsmoor, and Wicker, and about 60 other villages and hamlets The physical configuration of this district differs in various parts, but that portion on which the town of Sheffield stands is a sheltered valley overhung by the wooded heights of Wincobank, and watered by the streams of the Sheaf, from which the town takes its name, the Porter, and two other rivers, which all unite their waters at this point with the Don, on which much labour and expense has been bestowed to render it navigable.