The site includes a large, Grade II listed, Victorian era glasshouse. 61% of the city is green space, such as parks and forests. In the 19th century, the city saw a huge expansion of its traditional cutlery trade, when stainless steel and crucible steel were developed locally, fuelling an almost tenfold increase in the population. "Kier Sheffield Receives Award for its Health & Safety Approach", "Kier Partnership Homes appointed for Sheffield Housing Development", A tale of two cities: the Sheffield Project, List of civil parishes in South Yorkshire, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sheffield&oldid=978596607, Local government districts in South Yorkshire, Populated places established in the 1st millennium, Articles with dead external links from October 2013, Short description is different from Wikidata, Pages using infobox settlement with possible motto list, Articles with unsourced statements from October 2014, Articles with failed verification from February 2018, Articles with unsourced statements from July 2020, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz area identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 15 September 2020, at 21:14. [48], Estimated to contain around 4.5 million trees,[6] Sheffield has more trees per person than any other city in Europe, and it is claimed by Sheffield City Council to be England's greenest city,[49] a claim that was reinforced when it won the 2005 Entente Florale competition. [203] The site was once home to a medieval deer park, latterly owned by the Duke of Norfolk.[203]. [163] These include The Human League, Heaven 17, ABC, Thompson Twins and the more industrially inclined Cabaret Voltaire and Clock DVA. [91] This process was rendered obsolete in 1856 by Henry Bessemer's invention of the Bessemer converter. It matters not if you never look at another snooker table for the rest of the year, throughout the championships Sheffielders are experts on 147 breaks, snooker tactics and we all DEFINITELY once saw Ronnie O’Sullivan in town…. The city also has the largest theatre complex outside London and is the home of many electronic rock groups. The city and metropolitan borough lie within the historic county of Yorkshire, except for the area around Beighton and Mosborough, which belongs to the historic county of Derbyshire. [2], The city is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines, and the valleys of the River Don and its four tributaries, the Loxley, the Porter Brook, the Rivelin and the Sheaf. The network operated as three lines for years before it was extended to Rotherham Parkgate in 2018,[121] with a fleet of new "train-trams" sharing a conventional rail line between Sheffield and Rotherham.