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3 days ago · After the Norman conquest of England, Sheffield Castle was built to protect the local settlements, and a small town developed that is the nucleus of the modern city. By 1296, a market had been established at what is now known as Castle Square, and Sheffield subsequently grew into a small market town.
3 days ago · History. 1870 – 1960. The stone façade of Sheffield station, added in 1905. The Park Hill flats are in the background. The station was opened in 1870 by the Midland Railway to the designs of the company architect John Holloway Sanders. [3] . It was the fifth and last station to be built in Sheffield city centre.
3 days ago · The Hillsborough disaster was a fatal crowd crush at a football match at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, on 15 April 1989. It occurred during an FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest in the two standing-only central pens within the Leppings Lane stand allocated to Liverpool supporters.
3 days ago · The town's history dates from the 8th century, although the area has been occupied since the last ice age. Sheffield Castle was built after the Norman Conquest to control local settlements and this formed the nucleus of the modern city.
2 days ago · England, predominant constituent unit of the United Kingdom, occupying more than half of the island of Great Britain. Outside the British Isles, England is often erroneously considered synonymous with the island of Great Britain (England, Scotland, and Wales) and even with the entire United Kingdom. Despite the political, economic, and cultural ...
5 days ago · Aberdeen Ph.D. 1927. Punishment as applied by the ordinary criminal courts from 1400 to 1747. R.A. MacTaggart. Glasgow Ph.D. 1969. The history and development of the charitable trust from the 15th century onwards. G.H. Jones. London Ph.D. 1961. The historical background of the English land law from 1535.
4 days ago · 6. The Castle Market in Sheffield is built over the ruins of a castle. Sheffield was in existence by Saxon times, and soon after the Norman Conquest, it merited a castle. It was demolished in 1688 after being badly damaged in the Civil War, but some remains still exist in chambers under the market. 7.
