What is Ecclesall Bierlow?
What is Ecclesall Bierlow?
Ecclesall Bierlow encompassed most of the land between the River Sheaf and the Porter Brook from The Moor to Ringinglow. It also included the areas of Broomhall and Crookesmoor to the north of Porter Brook. Though this area contained numerous small villages and hamlets, there was never a village called Ecclesall.
Where is Ecclesall Bierlow?
Sheffield
ECCLESALL-BIERLOW, a chapelry, and the head of a union, in the parish of Sheffield, S. division of the wapentake of Strafforth and Tickhill, W. riding of York, 3½ miles (S. W.) from Sheffield; containing 19,984 inhabitants.
Where was the workhouse in Sheffield?
Fir Vale
Sheffield Union The workhouse was built in 1881 at Fir Vale, and it later became the site of the Northern General Hospital.
Where is nether Hallam?
HALLAM (NETHER), a township and a sub-district in Sheffield parish and Ecclesall-Bierlow district, W. R. Yorkshire.
What did the Sheffield work house become in the 2oth century?
On 21st March 1906, the Local Government Board issued an order to separate the hospital from the remainder of the site, renaming it Sheffield Union Hospital. It gradually became known as Fir Vale Hospital. After 1912, the workhouse officially became known as Fir Vale House Poor Law Institution.
Where is Ecclesall Bierlow in West Yorkshire?
ECCLESALL-BIERLOW, a township, a chapelry, a sub-district, and a district in W. R. Yorkshire. The township lies on the verge of the county, within Sheffield parish and borough, 3 miles SW of Sheffield town; but it includes outskirts of that town, together with numerous hamlets, and is practically a suburb of Sheffield.
Where was Ecclesall Bierlow Poor Law Union?
In 1837 the Ecclesall Bierlow Poor Law Union came into being. As well as Ecclesall Bierlow, this encompassed Nether Hallam, Upper Hallam in the West Riding and Beauchief, Dore, Norton, and Totley in Derbyshire. A workhouse was built on Cherry Tree Hill at Nether Edge.
When was the Ecclesall Bierlow electoral ward created?
Ecclesall electoral ward was created 1934 when the old Ecclesall Bierlow ward was divided into Ecclesall, Broomhill and Hallam. The boundaries of the ward include about half of the area that was historically known as Ecclesall Bierlow—one of the six ‘townships’ that made up the old Parish of Sheffield.
Which is the most common surname in Ecclesall Bierlow?
The Frequency column shows the percentage of people in this county or town with this surname. For example, a frequency of 0.2327 in Ecclesall Bierlow means that 0.2327% of the people in Ecclesall Bierlow on census day were called MARPLES.