Intake is a suburb and former village located south-east of

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city centre,

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, England. Due to expansion during the 20th century, the village became a part of the city of Sheffield. Intake is linked to

Frecheville Frecheville is a suburb south-east of Sheffield’s city centre. The estate was built in the 1930s when the area was in Derbyshire. However, due to expansion, Frecheville and a number of surrounding villages became part of the city of Sheffie ...

via Birley Moor Road, and to

Gleadless Gleadless is a suburb and parish A Church Near You.
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via Hollinsend Road.

History

Prior to the 19th century, the area was mainly farmland. The

Shire Brook Shire Brook is a small stream in the south eastern part of the City of Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England. It rises in the suburb of Gleadless Townend and flows in a general easterly direction for to its confluence with the River Rother bet ...

which flows through the south-east, originally marked the boundary between

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and

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. However, in the 20th century, many collieries were opened in the area, with

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being the main source of employment. In the 1870 publication '' Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales'' by

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, Intake is described as being 'a village in Handsworth parish, W. R. Yorkshire; 3 miles SE of Sheffield. It stands adjacent to collieries, and has a post office under Sheffield'. There are a number of

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s in the area, including the Intake Cemetery Chapel constructed in 1879, along with the surrounding walls and washhouse. The first burial at the cemetery was for a George Smith, killed at

Birley Collieries The Birley Collieries were a group of coal mines set in the Shire Brook Valley in south-east Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. They were connected to the railway system by a branch line from the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway ...

on 13 January 1903.

Notable people

Jarvis Cocker Jarvis Branson Cocker (born 19 September 1963) is an English musician and radio presenter. As the founder, frontman, lyricist and only consistent member of the band Pulp, he became a figurehead of the Britpop genre of the mid-1990s. Following P ...

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was born in Intake.

References

{{Reflist Villages of the metropolitan borough of Sheffield

History

Notable people

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