Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HALLAM (NETHER)

HALLAM (NETHER), a township and a sub-district in Sheffield parish and Ecclesall-Bierlow district, W. R. Yorkshire. The township lies averagely 1¼ mile W of Sheffield, but includes suburbs of that town, and also the villages or hamlets of Newfield-Green, Upperthorpe, Steelbank, Springvale-Lydgate, Tapton, Endcliffe, Crookes, Walkley, Hill-Bridge, Malin-Bridge, Hill-Foot, Philadelphia, and Heeley, and parts of Owlerton, Crooks, and Crooks-Moor. Acres, 5, 480. Real property, £58, 908; of which £256 are in quarries. Pop. in 1851, 8, 897; in 1861, 19, 758. Houses, 3, 993. The large increase of pop. arose mainly from proximity to Sheffield, and from the operations of building societies. The tract now forming the township Was a main part of the ancient Hallamshire; continued till near the end of last century to be principally waste land and common; was brought into cultivation in consequence of an enclosure act, obtained in 1791; affords a striking instance of rapid evolution from a state of comparative uselessness to a state of very high productiveness; and now shares conspicuously in the industry and prosperity of Sheffield. -The sub-district excludes Heeley hamlet; and, to that extent, is less than the township. Acres, 5, 480. Pop., 17, 305. Houses, 3, 478.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township and a sub-district"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Nether Hallam CP/Tn       Yorkshire AncC
Place names: HALLAM     |     HALLAM NETHER     |     NETHER HALLAM
Place: Nether Hallam

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