Walkley
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| Walkley | |
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 Shown within Sheffield |
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| District: | Sheffield |
| UK Parliament constituency: | Sheffield Brightside, |
| Ceremonial county: | South Yorkshire |
| Region: | Yorkshire and the Humber |
| Population (2001): | 17,900 |
| Councillors | |
| Penny Baker (Liberal Democrat) Jonathan Harston (Liberal Democrat) Diane Leek (Liberal Democrat) |
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- For Netherthorpe Airfield, see Netherthorpe Airfield.
- For the Australian journalism award, see Walkley Awards.
Walkley is the name of a suburb of Sheffield, UK, and of the larger electoral ward surrounding it.
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[edit] Walkley Ward
Walkley ward—which includes the districts of Netherthorpe, Upperthorpe, and Walkley—is one of the 28 electoral wards in City of Sheffield, England. It is located in the northwestern part of the city and covers an area of 3.8 km². The population of this ward in 2001 was 17,900 people in 8,700 households. Part of the ward is in Sheffield Hillsborough, part is in Sheffield Brightside and part is in Sheffield Central constituency. A boundary review is due to put Walkley into a new Sheffield Central constituency.
[edit] Districts of Walkley ward
[edit] Walkley
Walkley (grid reference SK336885) is a small suburb in the north west of Sheffield in England. It lies north-east of Crookes and south of Hillsborough.
The area consists mainly of Victorian stone-fronted terraced housing and has a lower student population than much of the surrounding area despite being within 15 minutes' walk of the University of Sheffield.
John Ruskin lived in the area for several years in the 19th century and set up a museum in the suburb, which later moved to other locations in Sheffield. There is also a park linking the two areas of Langsett and Walkley, named after John Ruskin.
Walkley Library, a branch library of Sheffield City Libraries, is a Carnegie library, and its boundary wall bears a commemorative plate to that effect.
[edit] Netherthorpe
Netherthorpe (grid reference SK343875) is a council estate lying south-east of the Ponderosa open space. Originally an area of working-class Victorian terraces, it was reconstructed in the 1960s as an area of tower blocks and medium-rise flats with a few houses. In the late 1990s the tower blocks were reclad and many of the other flats demolished and replaced by modern housing.
[edit] Upperthorpe
Upperthorpe (grid reference SK342881) lies north-west of the Ponderosa open space and south east of Walkley. Building in the area began in the late Georgian period, from which the former infirmary (now offices) and a few houses survive. Construction continued, with many large Victorian houses and a car-free late-20th-century housing estate surviving. The Kelvin Flats were a landmark in the area, of similar design to Park Hill, but were demolished in the early 1990s. The area is served by the Infirmary Road Sheffield Supertram stop.
[edit] Neepsend
Part of the industrial suburb of Neepsend which lies on the easter side of the River Don is in the Walkley electoral ward.
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