Whirlow
Whirlow is a suburb of the City of Sheffield in England, it lies 3.7 miles (6 km) south-west of the city centre.
Whirlow is a suburb of the City of Sheffield in England, it lies 3.7 miles (6 km) south-west of the city centre. The suburb falls within the Dore and Totley ward of the City. It is one of the most affluent areas of Sheffield, with much high class housing and several notable small country houses within it. During the Victorian era it was home to some of Sheffield's most influential citizens. Whirlow straddles the A625, the main Sheffield to Hathersage road. The suburb covers the area from Parkhead in the north to Whirlow Bridge in the south and from Ecclesall Woods in the east to Broad Elms Lane in the west. Whirlow had a population of 1,663 in 2011.
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Worth seeing in and around Whirlow
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Bishops' House
Bishops' House is a half-timbered house in Norton Lees, a suburban area of Sheffield, England. It was built c. 1500 and is located on the southern tip of Meersbrook Park.
3.9 km · historic house museum · Wikipedia - 02Sandygate Road
Sandygate is a football and cricket stadium in the Sheffield suburb of Crosspool, South Yorkshire, England. It is home to Hallam F.C. and Hallam C.C. First opened in 1804, Hallam F.C. have played at the ground since 1860.
3.7 km · football and cricket stadium Crosspool, South Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia - 03Sheffield Botanical Gardens
The Sheffield Botanical Gardens are Grade II listed botanical gardens situated off Ecclesall Road in Sheffield, England, with 5,000 species of plants in 19 acres of land.
3.8 km · park in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Beauchief Abbey
Beauchief Abbey is a medieval monastic house now serving as a parish church in the southern suburbs of Sheffield, England.
2.1 km · abbey in Beauchief, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet
Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet is an industrial museum in the south of the City of Sheffield, England. The museum forms part of a former steel-working site on the River Sheaf, with a history going back to at least the 13th century.
1.5 km · hamlet and industrial museum in Sheffield, UK · Wikipedia - 06St Peter, Greenhill
St Peter's Greenhill is a Parish Church in the Church of England Diocese of Sheffield located in the Greenhill area of the city. The church was built between 1964 and 1965 to serve the housing development that was built at what was then the edge of Sheffield.
3.2 km · church · Wikipedia - 07Graves Park
Graves Park is a large parkland area in the South of Sheffield, between the districts of Norton, Woodseats and Meadowhead. The park was developed by Alderman J. G. Graves between 1926 and 1936, to protect the thousand year old woodland from building development.
3.9 km · park in Sheffield, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 08Sheffield General Cemetery
The General Cemetery in the City of Sheffield, England, opened in 1836 and closed for burial in 1978. It was the principal cemetery in Victorian Sheffield with over 87,000 burials.
3.9 km · cemetery in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Whinfell Quarry Garden
Whinfell Quarry Garden is an early 20th century ornamental garden in Whirlow, Sheffield, built in an old quarry, containing rare trees and including a limestone rock garden designed by the horticulturist and plant collector Clarence Elliott. It is Grade II listed by English Heritage since 1999, List Entry Number:1001431, of about 1 hectares.
600 m · ornamental quarry garden in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10Whirlow Brook Park
Whirlow Brook Park is a landscaped garden of 39 acres in Whirlow, Sheffield, which are open to the public, containing Whirlow Brook Hall. It stretches from Ecclesall Road and joins on to Limb Brook Valley heading towards the Peak District, with an entrance to Whinfell Quarry Garden.
900 m · public garden in Sheffield · Wikipedia
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Getting to Whirlow
- Airports
- Manchester (MAN), 50 km · East Midlands (EMA), 58 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 59 km
- Stations
- Dore and Totley railway station, 1.9 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Whirlow50 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · £6–7
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Whirlow50 km · quickest by road, 1h 15m · £5–7
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Whirlow51 km · quickest by road, 1h 23m · £5–7
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Whirlow
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Whirlow. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextFor a day trip by public transport, the most accessible is along the Hope Valley railway line through Grindleford, Hathersage, Hope and Edale.
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Next door to Whirlow
Whirlow is 6 km from Sheffield, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Dorevillage in South Yorkshire, England, UK2 km
- Totleysuburb of Sheffield3.8 km
- Fulwoodsuburb in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK2.7 km
- Ecclesallelectoral ward of Sheffield City Council2.9 km
- Meersbrookdistrict of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England3.9 km
- Abbeydalesuburb in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK2.1 km