Sheffield

:This article is about the city in England. For other uses see Sheffield (disambiguation).

Geography

Sheffield is the most geographically diverse city in England{{mn|GEO|2}}. The city nestles in a natural amphitheatre created by seven hills and the confluence of five rivers: Don, Sheaf, Rivelin, Loxley and Porter. As such, much of the city is built on hillsides, with views into the city centre or out to the countryside. At its lowest point the city stands just 10 metres above sea level, rising up to over 500m in some parts of the city. However, 89% of the housing in the city is between 100 and 200 metres above sea level.

Related Topics:
Don - Sheaf - Rivelin - Loxley - Porter

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With a estimated total of over 2 million trees, Sheffield has more trees per person than any city in Europe. It has over 170 woodlands (covering 2827 hectares), 78 public parks (covering 1830 hectares) and 10 public gardens. Added to the 13466 hectares of national park and 1087 hectares of water this means that 61% of the 36238 hectares that the city encompases is greenspace.

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Sheffield also has more types of habitat than any city in the UK. As well as urban, parkland and woodland it has agricultural and arable land, moors, meadows and freshwater based habitats. Large parts of the city are designated as sites of special scientific intrest including several urban areas.

Related Topics:
Habitat - Sites of special scientific intrest

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People

People from Sheffield are called Sheffielders. They are also colloquially known to people in Barnsley, Rotherham, Dronfield and Chesterfield as "Dee-dars" (which derives from their pronunciation of the "th" in the dialectal words "thee" and "thou"){{mn|ALEX|3}}, although the term is in decline, and is not nearly as prevalent as "Scouse" is for "Liverpudlian" or "Geordie" is for "Novocastrian". Many Yorkshire dialect words and aspects of pronunciation derive from old Norse due to the Viking influence in this region.

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At the time of the 2001 UK census), the ethnic make-up of Sheffield's population was 91.2% White, 4.6% South Asian, and 1.8% Afro-Caribbean. Sheffield also has a large Chinese, Polish and Somalian population, and is home to a Polish consulate. In terms of religion 68.6% of the population are Christian and 4.6% Muslim. Other religions represent less than 1% each. The number of people without a religon is above the national average at 17.9% with 7.8% not stating their religion. The largest quinary group is 20-24 year olds (47,300) largely due to the large university population (53,000+).

Related Topics:
2001 UK census - Chinese - Polish - Somalian - Consulate - Christian - Muslim

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Location

Sheffield is located at {{coor dm|53|23|N|1|28|W|}}. Historically, Sheffield was part of the West Riding of Yorkshire and, before this, the Saxon shire of Hallamshire. This area is now part of the county of South Yorkshire, and borders on Nottinghamshire's forests and the Derbyshire Dales.

Related Topics:
West Riding of Yorkshire - Saxon - Hallamshire - South Yorkshire - Derbyshire Dales

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The city lies directly next to Rotherham with the M1 designating much of the border between them. Although Barnsley Metropoliton Borough also borders sheffield to the north, the town itself is a few miles further. Directly to the west of the city is the Peak District National Park and the Pennine hill range. The southern border is shared with Derbyshire. Over the past hundred years this has steadily moved south as villages have become part of the Sheffield urban area.

Related Topics:
Rotherham - Barnsley Metropoliton Borough - Peak District National Park - Pennine - Derbyshire

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Districts

:Main article: Districts of Sheffield

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Sheffield is made up of numerous districts that vary widely in size and history. Many of these districts developed from villages or hamlets that have become absorbed into Sheffield as the city has grown. For this reason, whilst the centre of most districts is easy to define, the boundaries of many of the districts are ambiguous. The districts are largely ignored by the administrative and political divisions of the city, instead it is divided into 28 electoral wards, with each ward generally covering 4–6 districts. The electoral wards are grouped into six parliamentary constituencies, although due to a different review cycle the ward and constituency boundaries are currently not all conterminous.

Related Topics:
Hamlets - Ward - Parliamentary constituencies

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Climate

Like the rest of the United Kingdom, the climate in Sheffield is generally temperate. Between 1971 and 2000 Sheffield averaged 824.7 mm of rain per year, with December the wettest month (91.9 mm) and July the driest (51.0 mm). July was also the hottest month, with an average maximum temperature of 20.8 ?C. The average minimum temperature in January and February was 1.6 ?C{{mn|MET|4}}.

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