River Sheaf

River Sheaf in Sheffield in Victorian factories along fluently

The River Sheaf is a river in Sheffield in South Yorkshire in northern England. The river is formed by the confluence of the Totley Brook and the Old Hay Brook in Totley, a present-day district of Sheffield. The river flows in a northerly direction to Dore along and through the valley Abbeydale, so named because of the founded in the 12th century former abbey Beauchief Abbey, which is located on the banks of the Sheaf. The river runs to the north of the district of Heeley, and is led into a culvert, through which it runs under the city center of Sheffield, where the river runs from time to time above ground. Near the bridge Blonk Street Bridge of the River Sheaf in the Don River flows. This section of the Sheafs formed, along with the Don two boundaries of Sheffield Castle.

Until the 17th century, the name of the river Scheth or Sheath was written. The origin of the word is traced back to the Old English sced in the importance of watershed, or on the word sceth in the meaning of divorce. Historically, the Sheaf was the border between the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Mercia and Northumbria. The river formed until the 20th century the border between the counties of Yorkshire and Derbyshire.

The name of the city of Sheffield is derived from the name of this river. The tributaries of the River Sheaf are the Porter Brook and Sea Brook. The River Sheaf was extremely polluted by centuries of industrial waste from steel mills and other iron-working industries and begins to slow to regenerate. The river supplied these industries with energy, and was used simultaneously as a drain for industrial waste. An example of the pre-industrial use is under a preservation order Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet.

Currently, the City Council Sheffield a trail, the Sheaf Valley Walk, developed. This hiking trail will lead to the relics of the industrial past of the river down to its origins in the Peak District National Park.