Shirecliffe

Shirecliffe is a suburb of the City of Sheffield. It lies three kilometres north of the city centre, it is now a residential neighbourhood consisting mostly of public housing. In the past it was a rural area made up of farmland and scattered small country houses. The name of the suburb derives from "Scir-clifff" meaning a bright steep hillside, this is appropriate as it is located at the top of a steep escarpment which rises out of the Don valley at Neepsend.