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Sheffield

(mostly) everything I know or want to know about Sheffield. Information from but not exclusively 1 (my own Internet research) and 2 (gossip). see changelog

this page is created mostly for myself, but I hope you find it useful.

Sheffield Council Open Data # from Sheffield Council Open Data.md

last edited: 2025-08-26 11:57:22 +0100

Sheffield Council publish open data using arcgis. The search page shows all the published data:

There's a lot of map data. My favourite map data are:

…and an honourable mention goes to these maps:

Secondly, there's also data that isn't in map form, such as:

A dishonourable mention goes to these maps which seem to have been made private (I can't access them):

There's lots more data on the search page linked above. Have a look!

(I think) this data is published in part due to the "Local Government Transparency Code" (seemingly most of the maps) and (from reading some of the documents) responses to Freedom of Information requests end up on there too.

love open data ;]

events # from events.md

last edited: 2025-06-06 17:33:51 +0100

unsorted list of events

events pages

venues with calendars

list of Sheffield RSS feeds # from list of Sheffield RSS feeds.md

last edited: 2025-06-06 17:33:51 +0100

lists of places I consider interesting # from lists of places I consider interesting.md

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cafés

  • Lego Café (Builder\'s Brew)
  • Figtree sandwich bar (I haven\'t been nor can I find out anything about it)

museums

  • Kelham Island Museum (massive steam engines etc)
  • National Video Games Museum (haven\'t been because it costs money)
  • National Emergency Services museum (haven\'t been)
  • Graves Gallery (quite nice to hang around in)
  • Turner Museum of Glass (basically just a university library)

gardens

  • winter gardens
  • botanic(al?) gardens

independent businesses

  • The Treehouse Board Game Café

scrappy independent places

  • Sheffield Hackspace
  • Gut Level
  • Hatch

miscellaneous

  • Sheffield hackspace
  • central library
  • la biblioteka (bookshop)
  • ryan vintage
  • the treehouse board game café
  • red brick market (google it because I don\'t want to link to the Instagram profile, I like it though)
  • film unit cinema
  • ScrapDragon waste material sales: https://www.scrapdragonsheffield.com/

other pages # from other pages.md

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other pages

Instagram

these are mainly sporadic events, but also more generic "Sheffield" focused pages