River Sheaf
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River Sheaf in Highfield, flowing between victorian factories.
The
River Sheaf is a river in
Sheffield,
England. Its source is the union of the
Totley Brook and the
Old Hay Brook in
Totley, now a suburb of
Sheffield. It flows northwards, past
Dore, through the valley called
Abbeydale (so named because of
Beauchief Abbey, which overlooks it) and north of
Heeley. Its then passes into a
culvert, through which if flows under the centre of Sheffield; it re-emerges above ground near
Lady's Bridge where it joins the
River Don. Historically, the Sheaf—along with its tributaries the
Meers Brook and the Limb Brook—formed part of the border between the
Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of
Mercia and
Northumbria; it remained on the border between
Yorkshire and
Derbyshire into the 20th century.
The city of Sheffield derives its name from the Sheaf. The main tributaries of the Sheaf are the Porter Brook and the Meers Brook. The river has been polluted upstream through centuries of industrial activity, including iron and steel working, and is only slowly recovering. The river used to provide the power for a number of metal works, an important surviving example of which is the Grade 1-listed Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet.
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