Sheffield Inner Ring Road
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Sheffield Inner Ring Road is a dual-carriageway circling central Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. Built from the 1960s onwards the Ring Road connects to the Sheffield Parkway, which itself connects with the M1 motorway. Many of Sheffield's major office premises and luxury condos are located on the Ring Road.
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[edit] Route
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 West (M1 jct 32) and arrives at Park Square Roundabout, the start of the ring road. Travelling anticlockwise, the ring road consists of Sheaf Street, Sheaf Square, Suffolk Road (anticlockwise) and Shoreham Street (clockwise), St Mary's Road, St Mary's Gate, Hannover Way (A6134), Upper Hannover Street, Netherthorpe Road and Hoyle Street (A61 and A6134), terminating a Shalesmoor, where the A61 turns north the Sheffield's northern suburbs and onto Barnsley.
[edit] Northern Relief Road
The Sheffield Northern Relief Road is the scheme to close a major hole in the Inner Ring Road. It began work in 1999, with phase 1 finished in 2000 as Cutlers Gate, running from the Parkway to the Wicker. In 2005 work started on the remainder, closing the gap from here to Shalesmoor. The route will go from Shalesmoor, down Moorfields, turning north at the junction with Gibraltar Street via a newly built road, meeting Corporation Street. Is will then cross a new bridge, before making its way to The Wicker through what was disused factories, part of which splits to head underneath the viaduct and link to Spital Hill. From here, it crosses to join the Parkway (via the section built in 2000), when motorists may then turn right onto Park Square via Castlegate. As part of this scheme, Nursery Street, the Wicker and Exchange Place will be downgraded and made more pedestrian-friendly.
[edit] Junctions
| Sheffield Inner Ring Road[1] | ||
| left and right assume clockwise direction of travel roads which only allow access to, and not exit from the IRR have not been included, eg Milton Street |
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| Left exits | Junction | Right exits |
| Parkway (for Darnall, Handsworth and Woodhouse suburbs, Sheffield City Airport, Sheffield Business Park, Advanced Manufacturing Park Outer Ring Road and M1) | 1 | No exit |
| Broad Street (for Cricket Inn Road, Wybourn Estate) Duke Street (for Manor Top and Manor Estate) |
2 (Park Square) |
Commercial Street (for City Centre, Ponds Forge and Bus Station) Broad Street (for The Square) Exchange Place (for Castlegate Quarter, Furnival Road, Victoria Holiday Inn and The Wicker south end) |
| Sheffield Midland Station and Sheaf Valley Quarter | - | ' |
| Shrewsbury Road (for Manor Top) Granville Road (for The Sheffield College) Queens Road for routes south to Chesterfield Shoreham Street (for Bramall Lane football ground and routes south to Chesterfield) |
3 | Shoreham Street (for BBC Yorkshire's Radio Sheffield HQ the Leadmill and CIQ) |
| Mary Streetac (for CIQ) | - | no exit |
| Eyre Street (for CIQ, the Moor parking, Heart of the City Parking, The Moor Quarter, and Town Hall) | 4 | Bramall Lane (for Bramall Lane Football ground, Heeley Mosque, Gleadless Valley and routes south to Chesterfield) |
| London Road (for London Road Shops and restaurants and unofficial Chinatown, Abbeydale Road restaurants and Meersbrook Park) | - | South Lane (for the Moor and DWP,DfES and Home Office in the Moorfoot Building) |
| Ecclesall Road (for shopping, boutiques, restaurants and Hunter's Bar, plus routes to the south-western suburbs of Dore, Totley and Ecclesall and the Peak District) | 5 | Moore Street (for The Moor Quarter, Devonshire Quarter, Heart of the City, BT tower, Grosvenor Hotel, pubs and bars) |
| Broomhall Streetc (for Broomhall and the Groves suburbs) | - | no exit |
| Broomspring Lanec (for Broomhall) | - | Gell Streetac (for West End parking, Devonshire Quarter |
| no exit | - | Leavygreave Road (for University St. George's Campus) |
| Western Bank' (for University West Campus, Children's Hospital+A&E, Central Sheffield University Hospitals, Weston Park and its Museum) Bolsover Street (for Crookesmoor and Walkley suburbs) and Crookes Valley Park |
6 (Brook Hill Roundabout) |
Broad Lane (for St. George's Quarter, University St. George's Campus and Cathedral Quarter) |
| Morpeth Street | - | no exit |
| Meadow Street (for Upperthorpe and Infirmary Road shops) | - | Meadow Street (for St. Vincent's Quarter) |
| no exit | - | Doncaster Street (for St. Vincent's Quarter) |
| Penistone Road (for Hillsborough, Grenoside, Ecclesfield and Chapeltown suburbs, Hillsborough shops, Hillsborough - Sheffield Wednesday FC and Owlerton stadia, Northern General Hospital and routes north to Barnsley | 7 | no exit |
| Ebenezer Streetac (for Neepsend and Kelham Island) | - | Shepherd Streetc (for Kelham Island and St. Vincent's Quarter residential areas) |
| Russell Streetac | - | Gibraltar Streetc |
| Cotton Mill Row (for Alma Street, Fat Cat Pub and Kelham Island Industrial Museum) | 8 | Plum Lane (for Riverside Quarter, River Don and Castlemore) Corporation Street (for West Bar, Law Courts and Paradise Square) |
| Alma Street' (for Fat Cat Pub and Kelham Island Goit) Mowbray Street (for Neepsend) Chatham Street (for Residential areas Neepsend and Burngreave) |
9 | Bridge Street (for Castlegate) Nursery Street (for Spitalfield and riverside) |
| Spital Hill (for Burngreave) Saville Street (for Lower Don Valley inc Valley Centertainment, Hallam FM Arena) |
10 | no exit |
| c - clockwise travel only. ac - anticlockwise travel only | ||
For an explanation of the Quarters, see Sheffield City Centre's Quarters
[edit] References
- ^ Connect Sheffield map. Sheffield City Council.
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