Attempts to assimilate Dronfield into Sheffield.

[CockneyMafia]

I'm hoping some local historians can help me out with a research question.

 

In the 1930s, villages of Dore, Totley and Norton were assimilated into Sheffield from Derbyshire.

 

I know there was also a proposal by the boundaries commission to assimilate Dronfield into Sheffield but it was strongly opposed by local residents and never happened. Does anyone when this proposal was? Was it also in the 1930s or at a later date?

 

Thanks in advance.

[cookingfat50]

if they seceded to do that they might as well include chesterfield, Rotherham, and Barnsley make it like Manchester, with their greater Manchester. and have Sheffield and grater Sheffield. before leeds gets the idea and ropes in the towns and villages round there. cause that's what leeds does what ever Sheffield as leeds wants if any councillors read this take head mr or mrs mayor

[fatrajah]

I'm fairly sure it was in the early 1970s.

[Library]

The Boundaries Study Guide from Sheffield City Council suggests that there have been three proposals to incorporate Dronfield: in the early 1920s, the mid 1960s and 1974.

 

https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/libraries/archives-and-local-studies/research-guides/boundary-changes.html (available as a word document or a PDF)

Edited September 10, 2014 by Library
correcting fat finger typing

[Nijinsky]

Leeds incorporated many towns well outside its city boundaries in its population figures, hence the jump of +250,000

 

Sheffield should just take large parts of Rotherham.

[benjamino]

Dronfield is in Derbyshire, always has been and hopefully that is where we will stay! A lot of folk class Dronfield as being in Sheffield, where as they couldn't be more wrong. Yes Dronfield has a Sheffield "S" postcode, but so does Chesterfield, Hope Valley, and Hathersage all having a Sheffield postcode and are also firmly in Derbyshire which in fact is classed as the "East Midlands". Dronfield isn't a suburb of Sheffield, it is in fact a town in its own right.

 

Just wanted to clear this up :-)