City ward — which includes the

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of Highfield, Kelham Island and the city centre — is one of the 28 electoral wards in

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. It covers the central area of the city. The ward was created following the 2015 local government boundary review out of part of the old Central ward, which, with a population of 36,412, was the largest ward in the UK. City is one of the wards that make up the

Sheffield Central Sheffield Central is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Paul Blomfield, a member of the Labour Party. Boundaries ;First creation 1885–1918: The Municipal Borough of Sheffield wards of S ...

constituency.

Districts of City ward

City Centre

Sheffield City Centre ()—often just referred to as ''town''—is the area within roughly ¾ mile (1.2 km) of

Sheffield Cathedral The Cathedral Church of St Peter and St Paul, Sheffield, more commonly known as Sheffield Cathedral, is the cathedral church for the Church of England diocese of Sheffield, England. Originally a parish church, it was elevated to cathedral st ...

. It is encircled by the Inner Ring Road, a circular route started in the late 1960s and now completed in 2008. As well as the cathedral, notable buildings in the city centre include the

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, the

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, and the

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. Several areas of the city centre have been designated as " quarters". Of these, the

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and

Cultural Industries Quarter The Cultural Industries Quarter is a district in the city centre of Sheffield, England, and one of the eleven Quarters designated in the 1994 City Centre Strategy. It is roughly triangular in shape, and is bound by Howard Street, Sheaf Square ...

are the best known.

Highfield

Highfield () is the area immediately south of the city centre, between

Sharrow Sharrow is a suburb of Sheffield located directly southwest of Sheffield city centre. The district lies within the Nether Edge and Sharrow ward of the City. Sharrow Ward's back to back terraced housing in ''Little Sheffield'' was redevelo ...

to the west and Queens Road to the east. It includes

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football stadium, home of

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Kelham Island

Kelham Island is one of

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's eleven designated quarters. Formerly an industrial area, the island itself was created by the building of a

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, or mill race, fed from the River Don to serve the water wheels powering the workshops of the areas' industrial heyday. The quarter was named after the island, however, the boundaries extend beyond the physical island created by the river and goit. The Quarter is roughly diamond in shape, and is bordered by Shalesmoor and Gibraltar Street to the south-west; Corporation Street to the south-east; Mowbray Street, Harvest Lane and Neepsend Lane to the north-east, and Ball Street and Cornish Street to the north-west. The

Cornish Place Cornish Place is a listed building situated in the Neepsend area of the City of Sheffield. The building was formerly the factory of James Dixon & Sons, a Britannia metal, Sheffield plate and Cutlery manufacturer. In the late 1990s the disused bu ...

Works sit just outside this quarter, to the north-west. Green Lane and Alma Street form the main spine roads of the area. The

Green Lane Works The Green Lane Works are a disused industrial facility situated in the City of Sheffield, England. The entrance gate to the works is particularly ornate and has been designated as a Grade II* listed building. Nikolaus Pevsner called the gate ''� ...

(Grade II*

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) and the

Brooklyn Works The Brooklyn Works is a former site of steel, saw and file manufacture, it is situated on Green Lane in the Kelham Island Quarter Shows map of Kelham Island Quarter. of the City of Sheffield, England. In recent years the works have been convert ...

(Grade II listed) are both important industrial heritage sites. A great deal of

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is evident in this area, as residential and social uses are mixed into this former industrial area. The area is home to an industrial museum, the

Kelham Island Museum The Kelham Island Museum is an industrial museum on Alma Street, alongside the River Don, in the centre of Sheffield, England. It was opened in 1982. The site The island on which it is located is man-made, resulting from the construction of a ...

, including the famous River Don Engine
The Chimney House
for events and occasions and five pubs: the

Kelham Island Tavern The Kelham Island Tavern is a public house in Sheffield. It is the only pub to have become the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) National Pub of the Year two years running. The pub lies on Russell Street, in the Kelham Island area of the city. ...

(twice

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), the Fat Cat, The Wellington, the Ship Inn and The Milestone. It is also host to the

Kelham Island Brewery The Kelham Island Brewery was a small independent brewery based in the Kelham Island Quarter area of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. It closed down in May 2022. In 1990 the brewery was opened (the first for 100 years to open in Sheffield) ...

(brewers of Pale Rider, amongst others). The Quarter housed one of Sheffield's last traditional hand-made scissor makers, Ernest Wright and Son Limited, until their relocation to premises closer to the city centre in 2011.

References

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