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	Loxley History - Little John Hathersage Sherwood Nottingham Robin Hood Loxley Peak District pictures history
		THE “ROBIN HOOD INN” in the Loxley Valley, Sheffield, England was built in 1799 by the local entrepreneur and Unitarian minister Thomas Halliday, and to attract the tourists he called the area "Little Matlock" after that beautiful place in the Peak District.
		Cutlery was made in Wadsley till the Sheffield Flood destroyed the wheels, Ganister stone used in the construction of furnaces was mined on Loxley Common, and during the general strike of 1912 men dug for coal which could be found on the outcrops of the Ganister seams.
		Loxley has continued to play its part in modern England, it is popular with the local orienteering club, there are tennis courts and football pitches, it has provided people with work, in the Second World War soldiers trained there and there were houses on the common.
	myweb.ecomplanet.com /kirk6479/mycustompage0018.htm

	Great Sheffield flood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This sent a wall of water flooding down the Loxely valley, through Loxley and Hillsborough, and then down the River Don through central Sheffield, Attercliffe and as far as Rotherham.
		The Great Sheffield flood, also known as the Great Inundation, was a disaster that devastated parts of Sheffield, England on March 11, 1864.
		The flood occurred following the collapse of the newly completed the Dale Dyke Dam at Low Bradfield on the River Loxley.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_Sheffield_Flood

	River Don, England
		Fig trees grow on a stretch of the river bank in Sheffield; the seeds having germinated successfully thanks to the increased warmth of the water near factory outfalls.
		Along the Sheffield–Rotherham stretch of the river are five weirs that punctuate a local footpath: the Five Weirs Walk.
		The River Don is a river in South Yorkshire, England.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/R/River-Don,-England.htm (258 words)

	Great Sheffield flood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This sent a wall of water flooding down the Loxely valley, through Loxley and Hillsborough, and then down the River Don through central Sheffield, Attercliffe and as far as Rotherham.
		The Great Sheffield flood, also known as the Great Inundation, was a disaster that devastated parts of Sheffield, England on March 11, 1864.
		The flood occurred following the collapse of the newly completed the Dale Dyke Dam at Low Bradfield on the River Loxley.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sheffield_Flood (258 words)

	Sheffield History
		Sheffield is built at the confluence of several rivers (the Don, Rivelin, Loxley, Porter and Sheaf) fed from the hills.
		Sheffield continued to thrive in the Hallamshire area(the ancient district that contained Sheffield) and in 1624 a craft guild, the Company of Cutlers was formed to govern the industry in the Sheffield area.
		At first the Sheffield cutlers were slow to change to this new steel (France was one of the bigger customers of it) but they soon realised how much more superior it was.
	www.littlemesters.com /sheffield_history.htm (877 words)

	Huntingdtonshire and Loxley, of Robin Hood and Yorkshire
		Loxley village in Yorkshire lies on the River Loxley about 3 miles from the centre of present day Sheffield near the site of a Roman road from Doncaster to Chapel-en-le-Frith in Derbyshire ("the road to nowhere").
		To confuse the issue a gravestone reputed to be a copy of Robin's grave from Kirklees is known from Loxley in Warwickshire, with a Lombardic style or fleuretty cross on the capping stone.
		A few miles to the west of Loxley is Hathersage, the reputed burial place of his second-in- command, "Little John".
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Lane/8771/loxley.html (877 words)

	Sheffield Forum Archive - Loxley Independent Chapel, Loxley Road
		Loxley Cemetery is about half a mile away from the chapel that smiths565 mentioned, actually on Long Lane, Loxley.
		Do you know whether the Church that you were referring to had a cemetry and where along Loxley Road is it situated.
		I have also found some photos of Loxley Chapel on another one of the questions on this website.
	www.sheffieldforum.co.uk /showthread/t-32573.html (877 words)

	Sheffield City Council - Report on Loxley Valley
		Part of the area defined in the Design Statement lies within the Peak District National Park and the Group is preparing a set of guidelines, which will apply to that part of the Loxley Valley for the National Park Authority's approval.
		3.1 The Planning Guidelines form part of a larger document, the Loxley Valley Design Statement, which has been prepared by the Loxley Valley Design Group (a copy of which is available to view in the Members Library and can be obtained from Development Services on request).
		They are researched and written by local people, so that they represent the views of the whole community.
	www.sheffield.gov.uk /index.asp?pgid=14526 (877 words)

	Touring Robin Hood's Nottinghamshire on Britannia: Loxley (West Riding)
		In the parish of Bradfield, three miles north-west of Sheffield, Loxley is thought by some to be the birthplace of Robin Hood.
		Touring Robin Hood's Nottinghamshire on Britannia: Loxley (West Riding)
		The place-name (of which there are three in England) is first associated with Robin's birth in the so-called Sloane Manuscript of about 1600 and was later reinforced by Sir Walter Scott in his 'Ivanhoe' (1820).
	www.britannia.com /tours/rhood/loxleywry.html (877 words)

	SHEFFIELD - LoveToKnow Article on SHEFFIELD
		Sheffield is situated on hilly ground in the extreme south of the county, and at the junction of several streams with the river Don, the principal of which are the Sheaf, the Porter, the Rivelin and the Loxley.
		Sheffield is the seat of a suifragan bishop in the diocese of York.
		SHEFFIELD, a city, and municipal, county and parliamentary borough in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, 1581/2 m.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SH/SHEFFIELD.htm (877 words)

	Stannington
		Stannington ( grid reference SK309889) is a district of Sheffield to the west of the city centre, located on the hill between the rivers Rivelin and Loxley.
		Bradfield ( grid reference SK267923) is a village in the borough of Sheffield, situated in the Peak District.
		Bradfield is the largest parish in England, extending from the Ladybower Reservoir on Yorkshire âs border with Derbyshire to the Sheffield suburb of Stannington.
	ref.podzone.net /en/Stannington.htm (877 words)

	Hillsborough, South Yorkshire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Malin Bridge (grid reference SK327895) is in the northwest of Sheffield at the confluence of the rivers Loxley and Rivelin.
		Hillsborough lies on the Sheffield Supertram route, and is home to a number of industries.
		Malin Bridge was devastated by the Great Sheffield flood, which happened after the Dale Dyke Dam collapsed shortly before its completion in 1864.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hillsborough,_England (396 words)

	River Loxley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The River Loxley is a river in South Yorkshire, England.
		The river provided the initial course of the Great Sheffield flood, which happened after the Dale Dyke Dam collapsed shortly before its completion in 1864.
		It flows into the River Rivelin at Malin Bridge.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/River_Loxley (80 words)

	A BRIEF GUIDE TO BRADFIELD.
		With the exception of Carver Street Chapel in Sheffield, Brightholmlee is the oldest in the Sheffield district in continuous use.
		This population is concentrated mainly in the village centres of High and Low Bradfield, Dungworth, Loxley, Wharncliffe Side,Oughtibridge,Stannington, Worrall and Midhopestones, with half a dozen smaller hamlets, Ughill, Storrs, Holdworth, Hollow Meadows,Brightholmlee and Upper Midhope.
		The Civil Parish of Bradfield is very large, being something over 36,000 acres in extent, and having a population of 14,469 at the last Census.
	sandersonbradfieldandbeyond.co.uk /abrief.htm (80 words)

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		Bradfield has a place in history when on March 11th 1864 Dale Dyke Reservoir embankment above the village of Low Bradfield collapsed releasing 600 million gallons of water down the Loxley valley resulting in the loss of over 240 lives along with destruction and demolition of many properties along its course into Sheffield.
		An increasing number of people were moving into the Sheffield area to take advantage of the employment prospects in the giant, pioneering steel works, and the town was generally expanding.
		For two hundred and forty people who lived in Sheffield and the hamlets in the valley below the dam, this was to be their last night on Earth.
	www.bradfieldparish.org.uk /history.htm (80 words)

	Robin Hood Candidates - Little John Hathersage Sherwood Nottingham Robin Hood Loxley Peak District pictures history
		It is at Dore where Robert Fitz Ranulf, a Sheriff of Nottingham built Beauchief Abbey, Sheffield in penance for his knowledge of the plot to murder of Saint Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury.
		Robin Hood (Lord Robert Dore) was known to dislike the sheriff and the hierarchy of the church and Dore was on the border between Loxley and Nottingham, it was the entrance or the 'way through' between both places.
		Further that the said Henry outlived Margery his wife, and that the premises in Wadsley and Worral aforesaid were held of the Lord Furrilval as of his manor of Sheffield.
	myweb.ecomplanet.com /kirk6479/mycustompage0002.htm (3765 words)

	channel4.com - Time Team - Sheffield - text only
		Built on seven hills and five rivers – the Don and its four tributaries, the Loxley, Rivelin, Porter and the Sheaf – Sheffield is the biggest city in Yorkshire and the fourth biggest in England.
		A Sheffield cutler, Thomas Boulsover, devised a means of fusing a thin layer of silver to copper to produce silver plate the famous 'Sheffield Plate' that looked like silver but was far cheaper, and was to take silver-plated cutlery into the dining rooms of almost every middle class family in the land.
		'Sheffield, then the capital of English trade unionism, was the only town where the decrees of the union were enforced by the blowing up of factories or shooting capitalists.
	www.channel4.com /history/timeteam/2004_sheff_t.html (3765 words)

	Huntingdtonshire and Loxley, of Robin Hood and Yorkshire
		Loxley village in Yorkshire lies on the River Loxley about three miles from the centre of present day Sheffield near the site of a Roman road from Doncaster to Chapel-en-le-Frith in Derbyshire ("the road to nowhere").
		Loxley in Warwickshire, with a Lombardic style or fleuretty cross on the capping stone.
		Locksleah, Locksley, Loxley are all synonymous with the claimed place-name for the birth-place of Robin.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Lane/8771/loxley.html (3765 words)

	Huntingdtonshire and Loxley, of Robin Hood and Yorkshire
		Loxley village in Yorkshire lies on the River Loxley about three miles from the centre of present day Sheffield near the site of a Roman road from Doncaster to Chapel-en-le-Frith in Derbyshire ("the road to nowhere").
		Loxley in Warwickshire, with a Lombardic style or fleuretty cross on the capping stone.
		Locksleah, Locksley, Loxley are all synonymous with the claimed place-name for the birth-place of Robin.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Lane/8771/loxley.html (2585 words)

	The Great Flood at Sheffield - 140th Anniversary
		A colossal mountain of water thundered down the Loxley valley and on to Sheffield wreaking death and destruction on a horrific scale.
		The body of the landlord - George Bisby, and those of two daughters, were found several days later at Sheffield; those of the other four Bisbys were never identified.
		On March 11th 1864 - shortly before midnight - the newly built Dale Dyke Dam - situated in the Bradfield hills just outside Sheffield - collapsed.
	www.angelfire.com /gundam/sheffield/flood.html (2585 words)

	Revills of Sheffield
		This is the name of an extensive tract of high ground declining on the north to the Loxley, and on the south to the Riveling, by which it is separated from the township of Upper-Hallam in the parish of Sheffield.
		Hallamshire was a wapentake consisting of Sheffield, Ecclesfield, Hansworth, Treeton and Whiston, and the Chapelry of Bradfield.
		A PERAMBULATION OF THE BOUNDS OF THE MANOR OF SHEFFIELD IN 1574
	www.mytangledweb.co.uk /revill/sheffield.htm (2805 words)

	Sheffield Forum Archive - Anything of Robin's in Loxley?
		I was mainly interested in the local legends surrounding Loxley and Sheffield as Robin Hood figures as a potent Pagan symbol of nature and the greenwood.
		Robin Hood's connection with Loxley is stated by the antiquarian Roger Dodsworth who wrote, “Robin Locksley, born in the Bradfield Parish of Hallamshire (Loxley) wounded his stepfather to death at plough, fled into the woods and was relieved by his mother till he was discovered.
		The Loxley nearby is the only one I've ever come across, and that coupled with the fact that Little John was from also nearby Hathersage tips me towards thinking this was the Loxley in question.
	www.sheffieldforum.co.uk /showthread/t-43660.html (2805 words)

	Sheffield Forum Archive - Residents of Loxley Villlage
		Loxley was swallowed up into the urban sprawl of Sheffield 30 odd years ago.
		Loxley is one of the few villages that have yet to do theirs and I'm looking for people to help me get it started.
		Spot on Algy........Now I think we ought to scarper before Sanman summons a peeler and has us both committed to a session in ye olde village stocks whereupon we will be pelted with rotten fruit by the angry villagers of Loxley.
	www.sheffieldforum.co.uk /showthread/t-32369.html (1144 words)

	Sheffield Forum Archive - River in Hillsborough
		The River Loxley and the River Rivelin merge near Malin Bridge and flow together alongside Holme Lane and Bradfield Road until they cross under Penistone Road and join the River Don.
		They were built long ago to accumulate river water behind them so that the height of water increased and could then be used to drive water wheels.
		I was lucky enough to arrange a private visit 2 years ago to take some film, and they actually ran it for me. Its completely original and made of wood, and runs the original 200 yr old snuff grinding mill, still perfectly preserved.
	www.sheffieldforum.co.uk /showthread/t-13078.html (766 words)

	Great Sheffield flood -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		The Great Sheffield flood, also known as the Great Inundation, was a disaster that devastated parts of (A steel manufacturing city in northern England famous for its cutlery industry) Sheffield, (A division of the United Kingdom) England on March 11 1864.
		The flood occurred following the collapse of the newly completed the Dale Dyke Dam at (additional info and facts about Low Bradfield) Low Bradfield on the (additional info and facts about River Loxley) River Loxley.
		The estimated 3 million m³ (700 million imperial gallons) of water destroyed 800 houses, killing 270 people, and wrecked nearly every bridge as far as the (additional info and facts about Lady's Bridge) Lady's Bridge in the city centre.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/G/Gr/Great_Sheffield_flood.htm (175 words)

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		The Parish lies between the Derwent in the northwest, the Don in the north and the Rivelin to the south, the river Loxley runs through the middle.
		Water is still a key resource for the City and although, in the Loxley valley Gannister is no longer worked for crucible pots, a modern industry remains in Stannington to serve the hi-tech steel industry of today.
		Water, wood, coal, clay and gritstone were the elements of industrial growth for Sheffield.
	www.bradfieldparish.org.uk /farming.htm (584 words)

	LIST OF
		Died Holme Lane Sheffield December 6th 1862, buried at Loxley Congregational Chapel on 10th December 1862.
		BUCKLEY, Hannah ~ Born February 17th 1826, baptised at Bradfield April 9th1826 daughter of John and Ann, married George Birks of Hoyland at Bradfield December 27th 1846 and had a daughter Ellen born March 12th 1848 and baptised at Bradfield March 15th 1848.In 1861 Census there are 4 children, Sebinah b.1850 Hoyland, Harriott b.1853 Sheffield.
		BUCKLEY, George ~ Born December 13th 1856 at Gatefield Farm, Infirmary Road, Sheffield son of Jeremiah and Mary, died April 27th 1936 at Holme Farm, Oldcoates married Mary Ibbotson at Bradfield March 25th 1877 and lived at Walker House Farm, Bradfield and then to Langsett where two children were born Annie Ruth.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /martinbuckley/Names.htm (584 words)

	Revell, Revill of Bradfield, Sheffield
		Bradfield, in the ancient parish of Ecclesfield, covered a very large area comprising Bolsterstone, Brightholmlee, Damflask, Deepcar, Dungworth, Ewden, Fairest, Foldrings, Gate, Green, High Bradfield, Holdworth, Hollow Meadows, Low Bradfield, Loxley, Midhope, Midhopestones, Moorwood, Onesacre, Oughtibridge, Rails, Rivelin, Smallfield, Stannington, Stocksbridge, Stopes, Storrs, Strines, Ughill, Waldershaigh, Waldershelf, Westnall and Wharncliffe Side.
		JANE REYVELL - International Genealogical Index Gender: Female Christening: 11 SEP 1562 Bradfield
		JOHAN REVELL - International Genealogical Index Gender: Female Christening: 27 FEB 1592 Bradfield, Gender: Female Christening: 02 SEP 1593 Bradfield,
	www.mytangledweb.co.uk /revill/bradfield.htm (584 words)

	Sheffield History
		Sheffield is built at the confluence of several rivers (the Don, Rivelin, Loxley, Porter and Sheaf) fed from the hills.
		Sheffield continued to thrive in the Hallamshire area(the ancient district that contained Sheffield) and in 1624 a craft guild, the Company of Cutlers was formed to govern the industry in the Sheffield area.
		At first it was thought that Sheffield couldn't manufacture large quantities of knives as it was one of the most inaccessible parts in England.
	www.littlemesters.com /sheffield_history.htm (877 words)

	News - Sheffield Today: News, Sport, Jobs, Property, Cars, Entertainments & More
		Tests on water on the River Loxley proved the area to be safe.
		The Department of the Environment decided it was safe to leave what was still buried underground to decompose by natural biological reaction.
		Eventually the whole site was covered with soil and levelled and the Pinegrove Club was built on part of the land in 1981.
	www.sheffieldtoday.net /ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=58&ArticleID=880386 (714 words)

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