Heart of the City
The Heart of the City was a £130 million major re-development in Sheffield, England begun in 2004, and completed in 2016 and one of the 12 official quarters of Sheffield City Centre.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Dave Pickersgill, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Quarter
- Description: area in Sheffield, England
- Also known as: “Heart of the City, Sheffield” and “The Heart of the City”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Crucible Theatre and Peace Gardens.
Crucible Theatre
Theater building
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Crucible Theatre, or simply The Crucible, is a theatre in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, which opened in 1971. Its name refers to crucible steel, which was developed in Sheffield in 1740 and drove the industrialisation of the city.
Peace Gardens
Garden
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Peace Gardens are an inner city square in Sheffield, England. The Gardens themselves front onto Sheffield's gothic town hall, not to be confused with Sheffield City Hall, or the Sheffield Old Town Hall at Castle Market.
Sheffield Winter Garden
Garden
Photo: Bhunjan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sheffield Winter Garden is a large temperate glasshouse located in the city of Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England. It is one of the largest temperate glasshouses to be built in the UK during the last hundred years, and the largest urban glasshouse anywhere in Europe.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sheffield City Centre and Cathedral Quarter.
Sheffield City Centre
Suburb
Sheffield City Centre is a district of the City of Sheffield and is covered partly by the City ward of the City of Sheffield. It includes the area that is within a radius of roughly 0.75 miles of Sheffield Cathedral and is encircled by the Inner Ring Road, a circular route started in the late 1960s and completed in 2007.
Cathedral Quarter
Quarter
The Cathedral Quarter is one of Sheffield's eleven designated quarters, located around and named after the Cathedral. It is bound by Tenter Street to the Northwest, West Bar to the North, Snig Hill to the North east, Angel Street to the East, High Street and Church Street to the south and Townhead Street around its western corner.
Sheaf Valley Quarter
Quarter
Sheaf Valley Quarter is an area in the centre of Sheffield, England. It is one of Sheffield's 11 designated City Centre Quarters, situated around the rail station and River Sheaf.
Heart of the City
- Category: locality
- Location: Sheffield, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.37987° or 53° 22′ 48″ northLongitude
-1.46956° or 1° 28′ 10″ westOpen location code
9C5W9GHJ+W5OpenStreetMap ID
node 9892117981OpenStreetMap feature
place=quarterWikidata ID
Q4417250
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In Other Languages
“Heart of the City” goes by many names.
- Russian: “Сердце города”
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