Sheffield Inner Ring Road is a dual-carriageway circling central Sheffield,

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. Marked up as the A61 all the way around, it was built from the 1960s onwards. The Ring Road connects to the Sheffield Parkway, which itself connects with the

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. Many of Sheffield's current and under construction major office premises and luxury apartments are located on the Ring Road.

Route

Velocity Tower from Moore Street roundabout

It is formed mostly from the north–south A61, coming in from Chesterfield as the Unstone-Dronfield Bypass, Chesterfield Road South, Meadowhead, Chesterfield Road, London Road and Queens Road, joining the ring road itself at Suffolk Road. The A57 (as The Parkway) approaches Sheffield from the east ( M1 jct 33) and arrives at Park Square Roundabout, the start of the ring road. Travelling clockwise, the ring road consists of Sheaf Street,

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, Suffolk Road (anticlockwise) and Shoreham Street (clockwise), St Mary's Road, St Mary's Gate, Hannover Way, Upper Hannover Street, Netherthorpe Road and Hoyle Street, terminating at Shalesmoor, where the A61 turns north-west the Sheffield's northern suburbs and onto

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. The South portion of the inner ring road follows most of the course of the B6070 before the

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sections were built. The B6070 now only applies to Granville Road and Rutland Road at either ends of the southern portion of the ring road.

Northern Relief Road

The Sheffield Northern Relief Road is the scheme closing a hole in the Inner Ring Road. Work began in 1999, with phase 1 finished in 2000 as Cutlers Gate and was subsequently renamed late in 2008 as Derek Dooley Way, in honour of the late Sheffielder who played football for

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before breaking his leg and going on to perform a number of backroom roles across the city at

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. Derek Dooley Way named section runs from the

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to the

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. In 2005 work started on the remainder, closing the gap from there to Shalesmoor and ended at the end of 2007. This section goes from Shalesmoor, down Moorfields, turning north at the junction with Gibraltar Street via a newly built road, meeting Corporation Street. It then crosses a new bridge before making its way to the Wicker through what was disused factories. There, at Junction 9, Bridgehouses, the road diverges, with part linking up to the Cutlers Gate section as described to join the Parkway where motorists may then turn right to continue on the ring road to Park Square and part heads underneath the viaduct and links to Spital Hill, Savile Street and Burngreave Road for connections to

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, Carbrook and the northeast of Sheffield at

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/ Tinsley. Nursery Street, the Wicker and Exchange Place were downgraded as part of the project.

Junctions

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, Handsworth and Woodhouse suburbs,

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, Sheffield Business Park, Advanced Manufacturing Park Outer Ring Road and M1)'' , 1
('' Cutlers Gate'') , ''No exit'' , - align="center" , Broad Street ''(for Cricket Inn Road,

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Estate)
Duke Street (for

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and Manor Estate)'' , 2
('' Park Square'') , Commercial Street ''(for

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, Ponds Forge and

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Broad Street ''(for The Square)''
Exchange Place ''(for Castlegate Quarter, Furnival Road, Victoria Holiday Inn and

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south end)'' , - align="center" , Sheffield Midland Station and Sheaf Valley Quarter , - , , - align="center" , Shrewsbury Road ''(for

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Granville Road ''(for

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Queens Road ''for routes

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to Chesterfield''
Shoreham Street (for Bramall Lane football ground and routes south to Chesterfield)'' , 3
(''

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'') , Shoreham Street ''(for

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's Radio Sheffield HQ the

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and CIQ)'' , - align="center" , Mary Street^ac ''(for CIQ)'' , - , ''no exit'' , - align="center" , Eyre Street ''(for CIQ, the Moor parking, Heart of the City Parking,

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, and

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'') , Bramall Lane ''(for Bramall Lane Football ground, Heeley Mosque,

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and routes south to Chesterfield)'' , - align="center" , London Road^c ''(for London Road Shops and restaurants and unofficial

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restaurants and

Meersbrook Park Meersbrook Park is set on a steep hillside in Meersbrook, Sheffield, England, offering panoramic views over central Sheffield to the north. Within the park are two historic buildings: Bishops' House and Meersbrook Hall. The Bishops' House On ...

)'' , - , South Lane ''(for the Moor and DWP,

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and Home Office in the

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Ecclesall Road Ecclesall Road is a road in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, that runs for about south-west from Sheffield's city centre under the number A625. At Banner Cross, where the house numbers reach 1001, the road name changes to Ecclesall Road ...

''(for shopping,

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, restaurants and

Hunter's Bar Hunter's Bar is a roundabout and former toll bar on Ecclesall Road in south-west Sheffield, England; the toll bar was active until the late 19th century. The name also attaches to the area surrounding Hunter's Bar roundabout at the intersection ...

, plus routes to the south-western suburbs of Dore,

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and

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and the

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(''Moore Street'') , Moore Street ''(for The Moor Quarter, Devonshire Quarter, Heart of the City, BT tower, Grosvenor Hotel, pubs and bars)'' , - align="center" , Broomhall Street^c ''(for Broomhall and

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suburbs)'' , - , ''no exit'' , - align="center" , Broomspring Lane^c ''(for Broomhall)'' , - , Gell Street^ac ''(for West End parking, Devonshire Quarter'' , - align="center" , ''no exit'' , - , Leavygreave Road ''(for University St. George's Campus)'' , - align="center" , Western Bank ''(for

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West Campus,

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+ A&E, Central Sheffield University Hospitals,

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and its

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Bolsover Street ''(for Crookesmoor and

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suburbs) and

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'' , 6
(''University Square'') , Broad Lane ''(for St. George's Quarter,

St. George's Campus and Cathedral Quarter)'' , - align="center" , Morpeth Street , - , ''no exit'' , - align="center" , Meadow Street ''(for Upperthorpe and Infirmary Road shops)'' , - , Meadow Street ''(for St. Vincent's Quarter)'' , - align="center" , ''no exit'' , - , Doncaster Street ''(for St. Vincent's Quarter)'' , - align="center" , Penistone Road ''(for Hillsborough, Grenoside,

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and Chapeltown suburbs, Hillsborough shops, Hillsborough - Sheffield Wednesday FC and

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stadia,

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and routes north to

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('' Shalesmoor'') , ''no exit'' , - align="center" , Ebenezer Street^ac ''(for Neepsend and Kelham Island)'' , - , Shepherd Street^c ''(for Kelham Island and St. Vincent's Quarter residential areas)'' , - align="center" , Russell Street^ac , - , Gibraltar Street^c , - align="center" , Cotton Mill Row ''(for Alma Street, Fat Cat Pub and Kelham Island Industrial Museum)'' , 8
(''Corporation Street'') , Plum Lane ''(for Riverside Quarter, River Don and Castlemore)''
Corporation Street ''(for West Bar, Law Courts and Paradise Square)'' , - align="center" , Alma Street ''(for Fat Cat Pub and Kelham Island Goit)''
Mowbray Street ''(for Neepsend)''
Chatham Street ''(for Residential areas Neepsend and

Burngreave Burngreave is an inner city district of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England lying north of the city centre. The population of the ward taken at the 2011 census was 27,481. It started to develop in the second half of the 19th century. Prior t ...

)'' , 9
('' Bridgehouses'') , Bridge Street ''(for Castlegate)''
Nursery Street ''(for Spitalfield and riverside)'' , - align="center" , Spital Hill ''(for Burngreave)
Saville Street ''(for Lower Don Valley inc Valley Centertainment, Sheffield Arena)'' , 10
('' Spital Hill'') , ''no exit'' , - , colspan="3" , ^c - clockwise travel only. ^ac - anticlockwise travel only For an explanation of the Quarters, see Sheffield City Centre's Quarters

References

Roads in Sheffield Streets in Sheffield Ring roads in the United Kingdom