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Discover Longley
The district Longley of in England is a district in United Kingdom about 143 mi north-west of London, the country's capital city.
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When in this area, you might want to pay a visit to some of the following locations: Wentworth, Orgreave, Wortley, Rotherham and Stainborough. To further explore this place, just scroll down and browse the available info.
Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 10°C / 50 °F
Morning Temperature | 7°C / 44 °F |
Evening Temperature | 8°C / 46 °F |
Night Temperature | 5°C / 41 °F |
Chance of rainfall | 1% |
Air Humidity | 64% |
Air Pressure | 1018 hPa |
Wind Speed | Fresh Breeze with 14 km/h (9 mph) from South-East |
Cloud Conditions | Scattered clouds, covering 44% of sky |
General Conditions | Light rain |
Saturday, 20th of April 2024
9°C (49 °F)
3°C (38 °F)
Scattered clouds, gentle breeze.
Sunday, 21st of April 2024
10°C (50 °F)
4°C (39 °F)
Overcast clouds, moderate breeze.
Monday, 22nd of April 2024
9°C (48 °F)
5°C (41 °F)
Light rain, moderate breeze, broken clouds.
Hotels and Places to Stay
Whitley Hall
Wortley Hall
Rutland
Copthorne Sheffield
Holiday Inn SHEFFIELD
Mercure Sheffield St Paul's Hotel and Spa
Leopold Hotel
Novotel Sheffield Centre
Hilton Sheffield
Best Western Sheffield City Centre Cutlers Hotel
Videos from this area
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Sheffield Ski Village (Derelict)
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Sheffield Supertram: Middlewood to Cathedral. (City centre)
Trams Are Tops presents Sheffield Supertram en route between Middlewood and Cathedral, in the city centre. Passing through Hillsborough and Shalesmoor.
My holiday in Newquay
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Minecraft Creative world - Episode 1
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River Don Steam Engine, Kelham Island Museum, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England - 16 August, 2014
The River Don Engine is a 1905-built steam engine used for hot rolling steel armour plate. It is a 3-cylinder simple engine of 40 inches (1.0 m) diameter, 48 inches (1.2 m) stroke. At its operating...
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Pineapple Thief - Give it Back Tramlines Sheffield
Tramlines festival July 20 2013 Sheffield City Hall Ballroom.
Pineapple Thief - Reaching Out Sheffield 2013
Tramlines festival 20 July 2013 Sheffield City Hall Ballroom.
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
Kelham Island Museum
The Kelham Island Museum is an industrial museum on Alma Street, alongside the River Don, in the centre of Sheffield, England. It was opened in 1982.
Kelham Island Brewery
The Kelham Island Brewery is a small independent brewery based in Sheffield, England. In 1990 the brewery was opened (the first for 100 years to open in Sheffield) on purpose-built premises on Alma Street by the owner of the Fat Cat public house, Dave Wickett. As well as the Fat Cat, the brewery owns a British-styled pub in Rochester, New York, named the Old Toad.
Sheffield Brightside (UK Parliament constituency)
Sheffield, Brightside was a parliamentary constituency in the City of Sheffield. Created for the 1885 general election, and replaced at the 2010 general election by the new constituency of Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough, it elected one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, using the first-past-the-post voting system. In its first fifty years, Brightside returned a variety of Liberal, Conservative and Labour MPs.
Southey, South Yorkshire
Southey ward—which includes the districts of Fox Hill, New Parson Cross, Southey, Wadsley Bridge, and part of Old Parson Cross—is one of the 28 electoral wards in City of Sheffield, England. It is located in the northern part of the city and covers an area of 4.6 km. The population of this ward in 2001 was 20,000 people in 8,600 households. It is one of the wards that make up the Sheffield Brightside constituency.
Cobweb Bridge
The Cobweb Bridge, also known as Spider Bridge, is located in the city centre of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, near the disused Sheffield Victoria railway station. Completed in 2002, its design solves a difficult problem: passing the riverside cycle- and footpath under the massive Wicker Arches viaduct while linking one bank of the River Don to the other. Without the Cobweb Bridge, the footpath would have had to make a one-mile detour.
Wicker Arches
The Wicker Arches form a 660-yard long railway viaduct across the Don Valley in the City of Sheffield, England. They take their name from the thoroughfare The Wicker, which passes through the main arch of the viaduct and was, until the completion of the Sheffield Parkway, the main route eastwards from the city to the M1.
Burngreave (ward)
Burngreave ward—which includes the districts of Burngreave, Fir Vale, Grimesthorpe, Pitsmoor, and Shirecliffe—is one of the 28 electoral wards in City of Sheffield, England. It is located in the northern part of the city and covers an area of 7.3 km. The population of this ward in 2001 was 24,000 people in 9,900 households. It is one of the wards that make up the Sheffield Central constituency. Most of the ward is served by a free community newspaper, the Burngreave Messenger.
Firth Park (ward)
Firth Park ward—which includes the districts of Firth Park, Longley, Parson Cross and parts of Wincobank—is one of the 28 electoral wards in City of Sheffield, England located in the northern part of the city and covering an area of 1.66 square miles . The population of this ward in 2001 was 20,000 people in 8,500 households. Firth Park is one of the three and a bit wards that make up the current Sheffield Brightside Parliamentary constituency.
River Don Engine
The River Don Engine is a 1905-built steam engine used for hot rolling steel armour plate. It is a 3-cylinder simple engine of 40 inches diameter, 48 inches stroke. At its operating steam pressure of 160psi, it developed 12,000 horsepower, and was able to reverse from full speed in 2 seconds. The rapid reverse was an essential feature of an engine used for rolling, as delays would result in cooling of the workpiece.
Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough (UK Parliament constituency)
Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since its 2010 creation by David Blunkett, a member of of the Labour Party.
Sheffield Ski Village
Sheffield Ski Village was an artificial ski slope complex in the Parkwood Springs area of Sheffield, England until destroyed by fire in 2012. It was believed to be the largest artificial ski resort in Europe with a sports shop, bar, restaurant and a range of slopes which include a snowflex nursery slope, a dendix recreational slope and a freestyle park consisting of a half pipe, hip jump, kicker, a quarter pipe and various grind rails.
Sheffield urban area
The Sheffield Urban Area is a conurbation with a population of 640,720 (2001 census) making it the 8th largest conurbation in the United Kingdom and England's 6th largest. Named the Sheffield Urban Area by the Office for National Statistics, it must not be confused with the Sheffield City Region, a non-government term, although often used, particularly by the business community. The conurbation dominates South Yorkshire, with over half of the county's population living in this urban area.
Grimesthorpe engine shed
Grimesthorpe engine shed was an engine shed in Grimesthorpe, Sheffield. It was built by the Midland Railway and opened in 1860 to serve the Midland Main Line. Up until 1935, Grimesthorpe shed code was 25, then changed to 19A by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway. Grimesthorpe gained the shed code of 41B after transfer to British Railways Eastern Region in 1958.
Neepsend engine shed
Neepsend engine shed was an engine shed in Neepsend, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. It was built by the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway to provide and service locomotives for passenger trains originating or changing at Sheffield Victoria and goods trains from various outlets within the area. The shed was built around 400 yards on the Sheffield side of Neepsend railway station. The shed was situated on the north side of the line between Bardwell Road and Rutland Road.
Abbeyfield Park
Abbeyfield is a park in Pitsmoor, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, bought by the City Corporation in 1909. The park comprises the park itself, a bowling green, as well as Abbeyfield House, a former secondary school. Abbeyfield School opened in 1919 and was the first school to be built outside Sheffield city centre as a result of the 1902 Act. The number of pupils was high and the school soon proved to be too small, children being split in numerous classes in several neighbouring churches.
Kelham Island Quarter
Kelham Island is one of Sheffield's eleven designated Quarters. Formerly an industrial area, the island itself was created by the building of a goit, or mill race, fed from the River Don to serve the water wheels powering the workshops of the areas' industrial heyday. The quarter was named after the island, however, the boundaries extend beyond the physical island created by the river and goit.
Longley, South Yorkshire
Longley is a suburb of the City of Sheffield, in South Yorkshire, England. It lies four km north of the city centre and is a residential neighbourhood made up mostly of housing built by Sheffield City Council in the late 1920s.
Northern General Hospital
The Northern General Hospital is a large teaching hospital in Sheffield, England. It hosts most major departments, including a busy Accident and Emergency for adults (children being catered for at the Sheffield Children's Hospital on Western Bank). The hospital is run by the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which also runs the Royal Hallamshire Hospital.
St Paul's Church, Wordsworth Avenue
St Paul’s Church is situated within the English city of Sheffield on Wordsworth Avenue in the northern suburb of Parson Cross. St Paul’s is a modern looking post war church which has been designated as a Grade II listed building.
King Mojo Club
The King Mojo Club, often known as the Mojo, was a nightclub in Sheffield, South Yorkshire located at 555 Pitsmoor Road, Sheffield 3, that operated from 1964 to 1967. Peter Stringfellow and his brothers had been running the Black Cat Club in the city, which proved a success. In 1964, they opened a new venture, the King Mojo Club, in a converted house on Pitsmoor Road to the north of the city centre.
Longley Park
Longley Park is a public park within the City of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. The park lies between the suburbs of Longley and Firth Park, four km north of the city centre. It covers an area of just under 52 acres (21 hectares) and is the third largest public park in Sheffield.
Society of Glass Technology
The Society of Glass Technology is an organization for individuals and organizations with a professional interest in glass manufacture and usage. It is based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. Its objects "are to encourage and advance the study of the history, art, science, design, manufacture, after treatment, distribution and end use of glass of any and every kind". It was founded by W E S Turner in 1916.
Yellow Arch Studios
Yellow Arch Studios is a recording studio in Neepsend, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. The studio was converted from abandoned Victorian factory workshops, and has been described as "... a hub of the Sheffield music scene". Artists who have used the studios for either practice or rehearsal include Arctic Monkeys, Tony Christie, Goldfrapp, Funeral For a Friend and the studios' "resident guitarist" Richard Hawley.
Green Lane Works
The Green Lane Works are a disused industrial facility situated in the City of Sheffield, England. The entrance gate to the works is particularly ornate and has been designated as a Grade II* listed building. Nikolaus Pevsner called the gate “the most spectacular survival of factory architecture in the city”. The works are situated in the suburb of Neepsend within the Kelham Island Quarter of the city and date from 1795 although they were extensive alterations in 1860.
Brooklyn Works
The Brooklyn Works is a former site of steel, saw and file manufacture, it is situated on Green Lane in the Kelham Island Quarter of the City of Sheffield, England. In recent years the works have been converted into residential apartments and offices. The structure is a Grade II listed building because of its importance as an example of Sheffield’s industrial heritage.