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Sheffield

manufacturing city in Yorkshire, noted for cutlery and metalwork since at least 14c. The name is from late Old English Scafeld "Open Land by the River Sheaf," an Old English river name, perhaps from sceað "boundary."

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Sheffield, AL -- U.S. city in Alabama
Population (2000): 9652
Housing Units (2000): 4760
Land area (2000): 6.559857 sq. miles (16.989951 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.025583 sq. miles (0.066259 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 6.585440 sq. miles (17.056210 sq. km)
FIPS code: 69648
Located within: Alabama (AL), FIPS 01
Location: 34.759721 N, 87.694592 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 35660
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Sheffield, OH -- U.S. village in Ohio
Population (2000): 2949
Housing Units (2000): 1147
Land area (2000): 10.816601 sq. miles (28.014867 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.002348 sq. miles (0.006080 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 10.818949 sq. miles (28.020947 sq. km)
FIPS code: 72060
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 41.448009 N, 82.083397 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Sheffield, IL -- U.S. village in Illinois
Population (2000): 946
Housing Units (2000): 418
Land area (2000): 0.748702 sq. miles (1.939128 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.748702 sq. miles (1.939128 sq. km)
FIPS code: 69147
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 41.355915 N, 89.736672 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 61361
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Sheffield, PA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Pennsylvania
Population (2000): 1268
Housing Units (2000): 566
Land area (2000): 1.728941 sq. miles (4.477937 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.728941 sq. miles (4.477937 sq. km)
FIPS code: 69984
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 41.704246 N, 79.034022 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 16347
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Sheffield, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
Population (2000): 930
Housing Units (2000): 397
Land area (2000): 5.554113 sq. miles (14.385086 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.028602 sq. miles (0.074080 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 5.582715 sq. miles (14.459166 sq. km)
FIPS code: 72210
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 42.893649 N, 93.217067 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 50475
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Wikipedia
Sheffield

Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough in South Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, its name derives from the River Sheaf, which runs through the city. With some of its southern suburbs annexed from Derbyshire, the city has grown from its largely industrial roots to encompass a wider economic base. The population of the City of Sheffield is and it is one of the eight largest regional English cities that make up the Core Cities Group. Sheffield is the third largest English district by population. The metropolitan population of Sheffield is 1,569,000.

In the 19th century, Sheffield gained an international reputation for steel production. Many innovations were developed locally, including crucible and stainless steel, fuelling an almost tenfold increase in the population in the Industrial Revolution. Sheffield received its municipal charter in 1843, becoming the City of Sheffield in 1893. International competition in iron and steel caused a decline in these industries in the 1970s and 1980s, coinciding with the collapse of coal mining in the area.

The 21st century has seen extensive redevelopment in Sheffield along with other British cities. Sheffield's gross value added (GVA) has increased by 60% since 1997, standing at £9.2 billion in 2007. The economy has experienced steady growth averaging around 5% annually, greater than that of the broader region of Yorkshire and the Humber.

The city is in the valleys of the River Don and its four tributaries, the Loxley, the Porter Brook, the Rivelin and the Sheaf. 61% of Sheffield's entire area is green space, and a third of the city lies within the Peak District national park. There are more than 250 parks, woodlands and gardens in the city, and an estimated 2 million trees, giving Sheffield the highest ratio of trees to people of any city in Europe. The city has a long sporting heritage, and is home to the world's oldest football club.

Sheffield (disambiguation)

Sheffield is a city in South Yorkshire, England.

Sheffield may also refer to:

Sheffield (UK Parliament constituency)

Sheffield was a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom 1832 to 1885. It elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) by the bloc vote system of elections.

The constituency encompassed the urban part of the town and parish (now city) of Sheffield, England, but not the western, rural, parts of Upper Hallam and Ecclesall Bierlow, which were incorporated into Sheffield Town Borough in 1843.

Sheffield (album)

Sheffield is the seventh studio album by the German hard dance band Scooter, released in 2000. It includes two singles: " I'm Your Pusher" and " She's the Sun" .

Sheffield (European Parliament constituency)

Sheffield was a European Parliament constituency covering the City of Sheffield and parts of Derbyshire in England.

Prior to its uniform adoption of proportional representation in 1999, the United Kingdom used first-past-the-post for the European elections in England, Scotland and Wales. The European Parliament constituencies used under that system were smaller than the later regional constituencies and only had one Member of the European Parliament each.

When the constituency was created in 1979, it consisted of the Westminster Parliament constituencies of Chesterfield, Derbyshire North East, Sheffield Attercliffe, Sheffield Brightside, Sheffield Hallam, Sheffield Heeley, Sheffield Hillsborough and Sheffield Park. In 1984, Park was replaced by Sheffield Central, and the boundaries of the other constituencies changed. Larger changes occurred in 1994, when the Derbyshire constituencies were removed to Nottinghamshire North and Chesterfield and replaced by Barnsley West and Penistone.

Sheffield (surname)

Sheffield is an Anglo-Saxon surname, widespread mainly in the city of Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England. The surname Sheffield's meaning is said to be originated from the city in South Yorkshire. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Sheffield Baronets
  • Charles Sheffield, physicist and science fiction author
  • Gary Sheffield, Major League Baseball player
  • Gary Sheffield (historian), military historian
  • Jack Sheffield (footballer) (1879–1915), English footballer
  • Johnny Sheffield, American former child actor
  • Joseph Earl Sheffield, railroad magnate and philanthropist
  • Jeremy Sheffield, English actor
  • LaTanya Sheffield, American hurdler
  • Rob Sheffield, American music journalist
  • Samantha Sheffield, wife of UK Prime Minister Cameron.
  • Tamie Sheffield, American actress and model
  • William Paine Sheffield, Sr. (1820–1907), U.S. Representative and Senator from Rhode Island
  • William Paine Sheffield, Jr. (1857–1919), U.S. Representative from Rhode Island

Usage examples of "sheffield".

Sinjin said, indicating a Sheffield cachepot on the top of a bureau near the door.

Send a check or money order to my friend Omar Sheffield, 968-1911, Box 968, Coxsackie Correctional Facility, Coxsackie, New York 12051.

Sheffield could answer, there was a discreet tap on the door of the Star Chamber and Saul Dagenham was ushered in.

Exhibition games between the two clubs were played at Liverpool, Manchester, London, Sheffield and Dublin, the Boston Club winning eight games and the Athletics six.

The dead: Kloof, Sheffield, Beziers, Travers, Gorlitz, Auchincloss, Daimamoto.

Winchester, Manchester, Liverpool, Bolton, Kidderminster, Cambridge, Birkenhead and Sheffield.

Brighton, Exeter, Kidderminster, Portsmouth, Ayr, Folkestone, Manchester, Sheffield, Aberystwyth, York, all these and many more will greet me on my first tour, as well as the capital itself, where I have several dates.

Among the towns which were proposed to be comprehended were Macclesfield, Stockport, Cheltenham, Birmingham, Brighton, Whitehaven, Wolverhampton, Sunderland, Manchester, Bury, Bolton, Dudley, Leeds, Halifax, Sheffield, North and South Shields, and it was stated that the same principle would extend to the representation of such large cities as Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Belfast.

Real Sheffield plate has the mellow, milkier sterling look instead of the harsh pure silver coat of electroplating.

Scan Valley southeast of Rawalpindi, argues Robin Dennell, the field director of the Paleolithic Project of the British Archaeological Mission and the University of Sheffield.

He also carried two wicked Sheffield carving knives in lieu of daggers, and a red ripstop backpack.

I had an idea, and I got Grierson to drive into Sheffield for me and buy all the magic tricks he could find, and to see if there were any books that told you how to do it.

Sheffield to address some academics from Eastern Europe about pollution in the Mediterranean.

It was at Sheffield, in the county of Yorkshire, already famous in the annals of crime as the county of John Nevison and Eugene Aram, that Peace first saw the light.

And now, years later, other bodies had been discovered, battered barmaids in towns where he had lived, and finally the one in Sheffield which, after tests, had been identified as Rene.