Which is the steepest road in Sheffield?

[Longcol]

Don't know if this has been said but Victoria Street in Stocksbridge is the steepest. It's almost vertical at the top! And this from someone who drives up Hagg Hill every day!

 

Nah ...if you look at google streetview there isn't a huge difference in the roof levels of the semis. Contrast this to Wellfield Road where a houses front door is on a level with next doors bedroom.

[Bolsterstone]

Try walking up it! It's a struggle in a car!

[Longcol]

Try walking up it! It's a struggle in a car!

 

Have done quite a few times. Mind you I was younger then and I thought nothing of walking from the King & Miller to the Castle (or indeed to Penistone via Underbank Lane). I always reckoned Helliwell Lane between Carr Road and the Pen Nook was steeper.

 

Looked at street view for Wellfield Road yet?

[Bolsterstone]

No I haven't but I will. I used to live on helliwell lane - it is steep!

 

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Can't get street view to load - looked on google maps but it's hard to tell

[Mecky]

Rivelin Street, Walkley. Google street map it, arrow to the bottom then look up it !! Has to be there or thereabouts. I had to walk (and run it if I was late home) 500+ times easy.

 

Long Lane from Rivelin to Stannington is pretty fierce

[999tigger]

Long Lane from Rivelin to Stannington is pretty fierce

 

Not in the same league as Hagg Hill.

 

If people google this, then there are articles on it and the interesting point is what do you define as steepest? Gradient over what distance?

[Hots on]

Middle Lane has got to be a contender. https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=stannington+sheffield&hl=en&ll=53.395709,-1.516821&spn=0.000006,0.00567&sll=53.394214,-1.535433&sspn=0.015278,0.045362&hnear=Stannington,+South+Yorkshire,+United+Kingdom&t=m&z=18&layer=c&cbll=53.395671,-1.516717&panoid=wlYSidxJbj9qth_iKYwZmw&cbp=12,298.81,,0,0

[Guest]

Yeah Hagg Hill surely is a contender. It sometimes requires using first gear in the car.

 

Linaker road seems steeper than Hagg Hill to me.

[prunella]

Wincobank hill for me.

[FIRETHORN1]

I'm surprised that no-ones mentioned Dykes Lane yet - the road that runs up from Malin Bridge bottom up to the beginning of the Wisewood Estate.

 

Admittedly, it's quite a short hill by some standards and it's only the bottom couple of hundred yards or so that are mega steep, but I walked or cycled daily up and down this piece of road throughout all my 5 years at Myers Grove School in the early 70's and I remember the trudge to this day. The very bottom bit is so steep that you can't actually cycle down it easily. Even if you put a bit of pressure on the brakes, the back wheel of your bike swings round to the front under the sheer force of gravity. I used to get off my bike and walk down the last bit. And as for cycling up Dykes Lane - well, I couldn't even manage that when I was a fairly fit teenager - so I'd have no chance at all of doing so now, as a fat, 50-something fogey!