Other sightBall Street Bridge
Bridge carrying Ball Street over the River Don in the Kelham Island Quarter, beside Cornish Place.
- Kelham Island and the River Don, Sheffield
43 places from our Sheffield guide, from City Centre and the Winter Garden to University, Botanical Gardens and the Porter Valley. Each links to its area guide and, where we have one, its official site.
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Other sightBridge carrying Ball Street over the River Don in the Kelham Island Quarter, beside Cornish Place.
Park or natureNext of the Porter Valley parks after Endcliffe Park, leading on to Whiteley Woods.
Other sightGrade II listed former steel, saw and file works on Green Lane, now flats and offices.
Cathedral or churchRoman Catholic cathedral just off Fargate, with a 59 m spire, the tallest in Sheffield.
Other sightFootbridge of 2002 that carries the Five Weirs Walk along the Don under the Wicker Arches.
Other sightListed former cutlery works of James Dixon & Sons by the Don, converted to flats in the late 1990s.
Park or naturePublic parkland in Crookesmoor, one of the three Crookesmoor parks with Weston Park and the Ponderosa.
Other sightGrade II* listed hall of the Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire, opposite the cathedral on Church Street.
Park or natureThe only large green space in the city centre, about 9,000 square metres in the Devonshire Quarter.
Park or naturePark opened in 1887 for Queen Victoria's Jubilee, the first of the Porter Valley parks west of the centre.
Other sightGrade II listed Edwardian red-brick building, the University of Sheffield's main administrative centre, on Western Bank.
Park or natureFive-mile riverside path along the Don from Lady's Bridge to Meadowhall, past five weirs.
Other sightGrade II* listed former cutlery factory on Penistone Road, renovated as offices in the late 1980s.
Other sightFormer works dating from 1795; Pevsner called its Grade II* listed gate the most spectacular factory survival in the city.
MuseumMuseum of Sheffield industry by the River Don, with the River Don Engine in steam and a Bessemer Converter; free.
Other sightMemorial in Endcliffe Park at the Second World War crash site of the US B-17 bomber Mi Amigo.
MuseumFree gallery with Sheffield metalwork, the Guild of St George's Ruskin Collection and changing exhibitions; closed on Mondays.
MuseumMuseum that exhibits contemporary and historic video games, in the city centre.
Other sightGrade II listed former town hall and court on Waingate, opposite the castle site.
Other sightSloping Georgian square north-west of the cathedral, once used for public meetings.
Other sightGrade II* listed concrete housing estate of 1957-61 on the hill above the station, renovated by Urban Splash.
Other sightCity-centre square with fountains in front of the Town Hall.
Other sightSquare outside Sheffield station, lined by the station, the Showroom Cinema and the Howard Hotel.
GardenGrade II listed gardens off Ecclesall Road with about 5,000 plant species in 19 acres.
Other sightSite of the castle at the meeting of the Don and the Sheaf, where Mary, Queen of Scots was held; little survives above ground.
Cathedral or churchGrade I listed Anglican cathedral of St Peter and St Paul on Church Street, a parish church raised to cathedral status in 1914.
Other sightVictorian cemetery of 1836, a Grade II* listed landscape and local nature reserve run by a community trust.
Other sightGrade I listed town hall on Pinstone Street, used by the city council, with a displayed silverware collection.
Other sightGrade II* listed war memorial on Barker's Pool, south of the City Hall.
MuseumFormer water-powered grinding workshop on the Porter Brook with a working 5.5 m water wheel; free.
GalleryContemporary art gallery for moving image, new media and performance on Brown Street in the Cultural Industries Quarter.
Cathedral or church
Other sightSquare at the heart of Sheffield's theatre district, home to the Crucible and the Lyceum, metres from the Town Hall.
MuseumUniversity museum of glass from ancient Egypt and Rome to 20th-century European and American makers.
Cathedral or churchGrade II listed Unitarian chapel on Norfolk Street, rooted in the Dissenters who left the parish church in 1662.
Other sightCanal basin of 1816-19 at the head of the Sheffield Canal, restored and reopened in the 1990s with new offices.
Other sightGrade II* listed house, workshops and crucible furnace in St Vincent's, one of the city's key 19th-century industrial monuments.
Park or natureGrade II listed park of just over 5 hectares beside the museum and the University of Sheffield.
MuseumSheffield's largest museum, opened in 1875 in Weston Park, with free entry; closed on Mondays.
Other sightGrade II* listed railway viaduct across the Don valley, named after the Wicker, the road through its main arch.
GardenTemperate glasshouse opened in 2003 with more than 2,000 plants, one of the largest built in the UK in a century.
Other sightBronze by Martin Jennings, unveiled in 2016, honouring women who worked in Sheffield's steel industry in both world wars.
Other sightMemorial of 1923 in Weston Park to the 8,814 members of the regiment who died in the First World War.
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