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The history of Sheffield, a city in South Yorkshire, England, can be traced back to the founding of a settlement in a clearing beside the River Sheaf in the second half of the 1st millennium AD. The area now known as Sheffield had seen human occupation since at least the last ice age , but significant growth in the settlements that are now ...
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After the Norman conquest of England, Sheffield Castle was...
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Sheffield is a big city in a region called South Yorkshire...
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This timeline of Sheffield history summarises key events in the history of Sheffield, a city in England. The origins of the city can be traced back to the founding of a settlement in a clearing beside the River Sheaf in the second half of the 1st millennium AD.
3 days ago · Sheffield is situated at the foot of the Pennine highlands at a point where four streams—the Sheaf, Porter, Rivelin, and Loxley—running in deep valleys converge to form the River Don. Escafeld, as the historic town of Sheffield was called at the time of Domesday Book (1086), was an Anglo-Saxon village. It became the site of a castle and a ...
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By the 14th century Sheffield was renowned for knife production, and by the early 1600s had become England's main centre of cutlery manufacture outside of London. However, the loss of some important export markets led to a recession in the late 18th and early 19th century, and the resulting poor conditions culminated in a cholera epidemic that killed 402 people in 1832.
Steel Centre of the World. The coming of the railways in the 1840s provided new opportunities for Sheffield manufacturers. Small steel and tool makers who grasped them became the great steel masters of the late Victorian age. John Brown, for example, made his fortune developing the conical spring buffer.
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