What is the oldest property in Sheffield?

[jaiden]

The original part of Sheffield Cathedral is Lady's Chapel and still is very much in existence.

 

 

can you point me to any references please .

[Albert T Smith]

I'm almost certain that:-

Lady's Bridge is the oldest structure. ' The bridge of our Lady's '.

I believe the oldest building structure is the ' Old Queens Head ' at Inn at Pond Street.

[flyer]

I used to watch your grandad club your grandma over the head , they were so in love ,how time flies . didnt you have a dog called dino ? I'm your next door neihbour barney

 

I did in truth get smashed in nose by my brother throwing rocks into the mouth of the cave i just peeked out ,and wham my eyes were closed for two weeks:D:D

[Unstable]

I'm almost certain that:-

Lady's Bridge is the oldest structure. ' The bridge of our Lady's '.

I believe the oldest building structure is the ' Old Queens Head ' at Inn at Pond Street.

 

The ladys bridge that stands today was built in the 1900's, the vast part of it being major improvements made in the 1950's. The original structure, built after the castle, was made of wood. The Old Queens Head being of tudor origin was constructed a long time after as a wash house.

[Alastair]

I believe the oldest built structure in Sheffield is the Iron Age Carl Wark hill fort which just falls inside the city boundaries.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Wark

 

 

Anyone know of anything older? Caves don't count.

[Unstable]

I believe the oldest built structure in Sheffield is the Iron Age Carl Wark hill fort which just falls inside the city boundaries.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Wark

 

 

Anyone know of anything older? Caves don't count.

 

Carl Wark at burbage edge is in the county of Derbyshire and within the peak district national park, it doesn't fall within Sheffield city boundaries by a long shot. Also there is no structure to speak of left and with its posistion it is still debatable whether it was a hill fort at all. If you are looking for no longer existing structures then there was a Brigante built hill fort at Wincobank, much older than Carl Wark!

[lee steer]

See now i knew me starting this topiuc would start this

 

people all debating on what is the oldest.

[Alastair]

Carl Wark at burbage edge is in the county of Derbyshire and within the peak district national park, it doesn't fall within Sheffield city boundaries by a long shot. Also there is no structure to speak of left and with its posistion it is still debatable whether it was a hill fort at all. If you are looking for no longer existing structures then there was a Brigante built hill fort at Wincobank, much older than Carl Wark!

 

I beg to differ. Carl Wark is within Sheffield city boudaries as the Ordnance Survey map shows -

 

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=425940&y=381450&z=3&sv=425940,381450&st=OSGrid&lu=N&tl=~&ar=y&bi=~&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf

 

The structure that I referred to as the oldest built structure (meaning one rock on top of another) is the western wall. There's a good picture of it at the bottom of this page -

 

http://www.stone-circles.org.uk/stone/carlwark.htm

 

I agree Wincobank hill fort is equally old although no one has precise dates on either. Does any other UK city have two Iron Age hill forts within its boundaries?

[Unstable]

I beg to differ. Carl Wark is within Sheffield city boudaries as the Ordnance Survey map shows -

 

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=425940&y=381450&z=3&sv=425940,381450&st=OSGrid&lu=N&tl=~&ar=y&bi=~&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf

 

The structure that I referred to as the oldest built structure (meaning one rock on top of another) is the western wall. There's a good picture of it at the bottom of this page -

 

http://www.stone-circles.org.uk/stone/carlwark.htm

 

I agree Wincobank hill fort is equally old although no one has precise dates on either. Does any other UK city have two Iron Age hill forts within its boundaries?

 

 

One rock on top of another- interesting point. There is a stone circle near cutthroat bridge just before Ladybower. two of the stones, one of which is called the witch stone originally had a plinth (one rock on top of another). This is definitely a structure, definitely within the Sheffield boundary, and was built by the nomadic, sometimes indigineous people of the Mesolithic or Neolithic period, thousands of years before the iron age.

[Greybeard]

The ladys bridge that stands today was built in the 1900's, the vast part of it being major improvements made in the 1950's. The original structure, built after the castle, was made of wood.

 

I believe the original stone bridge was built in 1495(?) at the behest of the Vicar of Sheffield. Much of the original structure is still there and in fact still supports the roadway above which has been widened on a couple of occasions.