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Map of the Rivelin Valley Estate, 1934

Taken from a Report of Special Conference regarding the Development of the Rivelin Valley, Sheffield City Council, Sep 1934.Rivelin Mill, Rivelin Valley Road, Rivelin Hotel, St Michael's RC Cemetery, The Hagg, Roscoe Wheel, Hollins Bridge Mill, Holly Bush Inn, Walkley Bank Tilt, Walkley Bank Plantation, Mousehole Forge, Holme Head Wheel.E Partington, Estates Surveyor.Original at Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 117 M

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Plan of Lydgate Hall Estate as allotted for sale, 1860

Full details recorded in the sale particulars.Summary details are:Lot 4 Lydgate Hall, comprising dining, drawing and breakfast rooms and library, two kitchens, a pantry and china closet, cellaring, and seven bedrooms, supplied with hot and cold water, pleasure grounds, stables for 5 horses, coach house for two carriages, bailiff's house, and farm buildings, lodge, plantation and paddock ?;Lot 5 dwelling house, stable, barn, outbuildings, and yard;Lot 6 stone quarry, etc.;Lot 7 parts of near Broom Field; Far Broom Field, Upper Slack and Upper High Acres;Lot 8 land (being the site of three houses and a shop);Lots 9 - 12 parts of brick yard and clay, etc.;Lot 13 part of upper Slack and Far Broomfield, cottages, workshops, parts of Middle and Far Doddiworth, etc.;Lot 14 Nether High Acre;Lot 15 Lower Intake;Lot 16 Coalpit Field;Lot 17 Doddiworth, etc;Lot 18 clay and stone quarry, etc.Pawson and Brailsford, Lithographers, Sheffield.Scale 2 chains : 1 inch.Original at Sheffield Local Studies Library: Sale Plans 3 July 1860

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South Yorkshire Asylum - also referred to as Wadsley Asylum later Middlewood Hospital - plan of estate

Shows hospital buildings, including female and male wings, administrative block, nurses residence, laundry house and dining hall, as well as Airing courts, Drying Green, boiler buildings, wood and masons yards, farmery, kitchen gardens, isolation hospitals (2), church, nursery, gardener's lodge and entrance lodge.The extent of the estate shown is bounded by irrigation land and the River Don to the north north east, Worrall Lane to the west south west, land belonging to Elijah Eaton and Mr. Newton to the north, and land belonging to Messrs. Brooke and Sons, the Trustees of George Miller, and Mr. Fowler to the south.Whilst the date of the plan is unclear, the layout of the buildings shown correspond to a period covering approximately 1889-1901. The name West Riding Asylum was used between 1889 and 1929, and it is known that a second dining hall for women, adjacent to the female detached block, was built in 1901. This hall is not shown on the plan.Printed by Pawson and Brailsford, Sheffield. Scale: 1 inch : 22 yards. Four sections pasted together.Original at Sheffield City Archives X71/2/1

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