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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.
- Timeline of Sheffield history
This timeline of Sheffield history summarises key events in...
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Sheffield in England. Sheffield is located at 53°23′N...
- Timeline of Sheffield history
Sheffield was the UK's first National City of Sport and is now home to the English Institute of Sport – Sheffield, where British athletes trained for the 2012 Olympics. Sheffield also has close ties with snooker, with the city's Crucible Theatre being the venue for the World Snooker Championships.
- 122.5 km² (47.3 sq mi)
- England
- 556,500 (2021 census)
- Yorkshire and the Humber
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.
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Beginnings. Situated in the Pennine foothills in the extreme south west corner of Yorkshire, Sheffield has traditionally thought of itself as a city built on seven hills, and watered by five...
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Sheffield History. The area now occupied by the City of Sheffield has been inhabited since at least the late Upper Palaeolithic period (about 12,800 years ago).
