Editing Nether Edge and Sharrow (ward) (section)

==Districts of Nether Edge & Sharrow ward==

===Nether Edge=== 
'''Nether Edge''' ({{gbmapping|SK342851}}) is an established residential suburb in the southwest of the [[Sheffield|City of Sheffield]], [[England]].

Local facilities include a small shopping area at the junction of Nether Edge Road and Machon Bank Road, featuring a cafe, arts & crafts shops, a dentist, organic fruit & vegetable shop, a local baker, delicatessen / cafes, barber and hairdresser shops, a local mini-market, supermarket among others. Two small theatres (the [[Merlin Theatre|Merlin]] and the [[Lantern Theatre|Lantern]]) also exist in the area. A farmers market selling local food produce and craft goods is held four times a year in the central area on dates roughly coinciding with the equinoxes and solstice dates.

====<big>Brincliffe</big>====
'''Brincliffe''' {{gbmapping|SK333849}} is a small neighbourhood located to the North west of Nether Edge. It is characterised by large Victorian and Edwardian villas and low-density housing. 

The Sheffield Polytechnic Art College was in [[Brincliffe, Sheffield|Brincliffe]], on Psalter Lane.

[[Chelsea Park (Sheffield)|Chelsea Park]], and nearby [[Brincliffe Edge Woods]] are also in this area between Nether Edge and [[Ecclesall]].

===Banner Cross===
'''Banner Cross''' is a neighbourhood of Ecclesall centred on the intersection of [[Ecclesall Road]] and Psalter Lane. Banner Cross is split evenly between Nether Edge & Sharrow ward and Ecclesall Ward. [[Banner Cross Hall]], an ancient [[esquire]] seat, was virtually rebuilt in 1820. The main place of worship is [[Banner Cross Methodist Church]]. The nearby Banner Cross pub gained infamy when the notorious criminal [[Charles Peace]] shot and killed Arthur Dyson in the passageway beside the pub on 29 November 1876. The base of an old stone cross still remained at Banner Cross in 1819.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hunter |first=Joseph |author-link=Joseph Hunter (antiquarian) |title=Hallamshire. The History and Topography of the Parish of Sheffield in the County of York |year=1819 |publisher=Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mayor & Jones |location=London |pages=204}} This book is out of print but can be purchased on [http://blunham.com/CDroms/Descriptions/Hallamshire.html CD-ROM] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051122083646/http://blunham.com/CDroms/Descriptions/Hallamshire.html |date=22 November 2005 }}.</ref> Addy (1888)<ref>{{cite book |last=Addy |first=Sidney Oldall |title=A Glossary of Words Used in the Neighbourhood of Sheffield. Including a Selection of Local Names, and Some Notices of Folk-Lore, Games, and Customs |year=1888 |publisher=Trubner & Co. for the English Dialect Society |location=London }} ([[wikisource:A glossary of words used in the neighbourhood of Sheffield|transcription at Wikisource]])</ref> suggested that the name derives from ''bæna kross'', meaning the cross of prayers.

===Sharrow===
'''Sharrow''' historically was situated within the old Ecclesall Bierlow, on the old turnpike road between Sheffield and the [[Pennines]] towards  [[Chapel-en-le-Frith|Chapel en le Frith]] and [[Manchester]]. In the modern-era [[Sharrow]] is now largely a built up urban inner city area, located directly southwest of [[Sheffield city centre]]. Sharrow was urbanized between 1830 and 1850 when ''Little Sheffield'', a village and adjunct to the main town of [[Sheffield]] was redeveloped to cope with the rapidly increasing growth in population. Separated from Sheffield town by the "uninhabited, barren, gorse-covered, Sheffield Moor".  

====<big>Abbeydale</big>====
'''Abbeydale''' is the area of, and streets around Abbeydale Road, and extends from Sharrow up to Archer Road. The main shopping district lies between Heeley, Sharrow and Nether Edge. The Abbeydale Picture House, Mother of God RC Church,The Broadfield, Heeley Swimming Baths, Carter Knowle Surgery are within this area.