Southey

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Southey
Southey
Shown within Sheffield
District: Sheffield
UK Parliament constituency: Sheffield Brightside
Ceremonial county: South Yorkshire
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber
Population (2001): 20,000
Councillors
Leigh Bramall (Labour Party)
Anthony Damms (Labour Party)
Gillian Furniss (Labour Party)
This article is about Southey, a district and electoral ward in Sheffield, England. For the English poet of the Romantic school see Robert Southey.

Southey ward—which includes the districts of Fox Hill, New Parson Cross, Southey, Wadsley Bridge, and part of Old Parson Cross—is one of the 28 electoral wards in City of Sheffield, England. It is located in the northern part of the city and covers an area of 4.6 km². The population of this ward in 2001 was 20,000 people in 8,600 households. It is one of the wards that make up the Sheffield Brightside constituency.

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[edit] Districts of Southey ward

[edit] Southey

Southey (grid reference SK345915) is a former village, now a district and housing estate in the northern part of Sheffield.

[edit] Birley Carr

grid reference SK333921

[edit] Wadsley Bridge

Main article: Wadsley Bridge

Wadsley bridge (grid reference SK332913) is a former hamlet, now a district of Sheffield. It lies to the west of Southey around what used to be a ford across the River Don.