growup Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 These are the Top Ten steepest hills for the Sheffield area. Hagg Hill (not old Sheffield) gradient 17.1%. Victoria Street, Stocksbridge (not old Sheffield) gradient 14.85%. Blake Street, gradient, 12.79%. Wellfield Road, gradient 12.5%. Fir Street, gradient 11.26%. Cobnar Road (top part) gradient 11.25%. Upperthorpe, gradient 11%. Winnats Pass Derbyshire (between the two Mam Tor roads) (not Sheffield) gradient 10.91%. West Hill Rotherham (from Droppingwell Rd to Poucher St) (not Sheffield) gradient 10.4%. Jenkin Road (From Tyler St/Holywell Rd to the highest part just past Forthill Road) gradient 10%. Taken from http://www.robinhoodloxley.net/mycustompage0039.htm but I'm sure when advertising the cote de Jenkin rd it said parts of the road had a gradient of 25% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biotechpete Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 From the ones I have seen or on here and measured on Mapmyrun. The results are: Rivelin Bank 13.33% Blake St 12.38% Rivelin St 11.94% Kent Rd 10.83% Fern Road 9.26% Jenkin Road 8.37% Myrtle Rd 8.33% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest makapaka Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 All the roads up from rivelin to walkley are ridiculous - if you come down to the bridge crossing from stannington and look up it looks like something from a ski resort on opposite side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MediumDave Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 Those MapMyRun figures might be a bit suspect - Blake St is a solid 1 in 6 (16.6%), rising 30m in 180. You can count the contour lines on StreetMap or similar! I think Conduit is about 1 in 8 (12.5%) incidentally. Steep but not really in the running. Jenkin gets to about 1 in 3 for a short stretch (barely 50m) but most of it is 1:10 to 1:6, so this gets back to the old question, how short does a section have to be to be relevant? If the criterion is purely steepness then that short bit of Jenkin probably takes it, but Hagg Hill/ Stephen Hill is probably a harder climb on a bike though it is 'only' 1 in 6 at its steepest... Finally the BBC article was asking for the steepest street in *England* so there's no need to worry about that one in Harlech ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest busdriver1 Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 These are the Top Ten steepest hills for the Sheffield area. Hagg Hill (not old Sheffield) gradient 17.1%. Victoria Street, Stocksbridge (not old Sheffield) gradient 14.85%. Blake Street, gradient, 12.79%. Wellfield Road, gradient 12.5%. Fir Street, gradient 11.26%. Cobnar Road (top part) gradient 11.25%. Upperthorpe, gradient 11%. Winnats Pass Derbyshire (between the two Mam Tor roads) (not Sheffield) gradient 10.91%. West Hill Rotherham (from Droppingwell Rd to Poucher St) (not Sheffield) gradient 10.4%. Jenkin Road (From Tyler St/Holywell Rd to the highest part just past Forthill Road) gradient 10%. Taken from http://www.robinhoodloxley.net/mycustompage0039.htm but I'm sure when advertising the cote de Jenkin rd it said parts of the road had a gradient of 25% I suspect those figures are averages for the entire length of the roads in Question. West Hill is certainly steeper than 10.4% on the 2 steepest parts. Either that or they are just plain wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluecanary Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 From the ones I have seen or on here and measured on Mapmyrun. The results are: Rivelin Bank 13.33% Blake St 12.38% Rivelin St 11.94% Kent Rd 10.83% Fern Road 9.26% Jenkin Road 8.37% Myrtle Rd 8.33% If you can run up any of those, you have my deepest respect! (From someone who routinely crawls back up Walkley Bank after running down Rivelin!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biotechpete Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 (edited) Those MapMyRun figures might be a bit suspect - Blake St is a solid 1 in 6 (16.6%), rising 30m in 180. You can count the contour lines on StreetMap or similar! I think Conduit is about 1 in 8 (12.5%) incidentally. Steep but not really in the running. Jenkin gets to about 1 in 3 for a short stretch (barely 50m) but most of it is 1:10 to 1:6, so this gets back to the old question, how short does a section have to be to be relevant? If the criterion is purely steepness then that short bit of Jenkin probably takes it, but Hagg Hill/ Stephen Hill is probably a harder climb on a bike though it is 'only' 1 in 6 at its steepest... Finally the BBC article was asking for the steepest street in *England* so there's no need to worry about that one in Harlech ;-) I think you are right, when I measured on google earth the gradient of Rivelin Bank came out at over 20%. Hopefully though the error is consistent and so Rivelin bank is the steepest I can think of. EDIT: the figures Map My Run comes out with are 26m over 210m for Blake St. ---------- Post added 12-01-2017 at 15:23 ---------- If you can run up any of those, you have my deepest respect! (From someone who routinely crawls back up Walkley Bank after running down Rivelin!) I used to regularly run up Rivelin Bank, Walkley Bank Road, Racker Way etc. Edited January 12, 2017 by biotechpete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazz01 Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 Conduit CROOKES pretty steep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BHRemovals Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 must be jenkin, the tour went up it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestTinsley Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 Bottom half of Cartmell rd s8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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