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Sheffield (pronuncia in italiano: [ˈʃɛfːild], in inglese: [ˈʃɛfiːl̩d]) è una città di 552 000 abitanti (2011) della contea metropolitana del South Yorkshire, Regno Unito. È una delle otto città più grandi delle regioni inglesi che hanno costituito l'English Core Cities Group.
Sheffield is a city in South Yorkshire, England, whose name derives from the River Sheaf which runs through it. The city serves as the administrative centre of the City of Sheffield. It is historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire and some of its southern suburbs were transferred from Derbyshire to the city council.
The history of Sheffield, a city in South Yorkshire, England, can be traced back to the founding of a settlement in a clearing beside the River Sheaf in the second half of the 1st millennium AD.
The City of Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough in South Yorkshire, England. The metropolitan borough includes the administrative centre of Sheffield, the town of Stocksbridge and the larger village of Chapeltown and part of the Peak District.
3 giorni fa · Sheffield was the site of several metallurgical innovations that greatly spurred its growth. In the early 1740s Benjamin Huntsman developed the crucible process of steelmaking, thereby obtaining a reliable tool steel that by 1830 had earned Sheffield recognition as the world centre of high-grade steel manufacture.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Sheffield (pronuncia in italiano: [ˈʃɛfːild], in inglese: [ˈʃɛfiːl̩d]) è una città di 552 000 abitanti (2011) della contea metropolitana del South Yorkshire, Regno Unito. È una delle otto città più grandi delle regioni inglesi che hanno costituito l' English Core Cities Group.
Sheffield is a geographically diverse city in England. It nestles in the eastern foothills of the Pennines and the confluence of five rivers: Don, Sheaf, Rivelin, Loxley and Porter. As such, much of the city is built on hillsides, with views into the city centre or out to the countryside.
