Shepherd Wheel (Sheffield) Reviews
Newest Review: ... Will of 1584 this wheel is referred to as the Potta (Porter) Wheel. The name Shepherds Wheel was probably not given until at least 1794 when a Mr Shepherd held the tenancy of this wheel. In the 1820s this wheel passed into the hands of the Hinde Family, who continued to occupy the site until the 1930s. The Earl of Shrewsbury, who was Lord of the Manor of Sheffield, originally owned the land on which Shepherds Wheel stands. During the time of William Beighton the Lord was a man called Gilbert Talbot. When Gilbert died his land passed to his son in law, Thomas Howard, who later became the Duke of Norfolk. The Duke of Norfolk continued to o... more
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Shepherd Wheel (Sheffield): Shepherd's Wheel, Sheffield (1391 words)by - written on 18/10/07 (Very useful, 250 readings)
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The Shepherds Wheel is a 16th century water wheel that is located within a workshop in the Porter Brook Valley, about 2 miles to the west of Sheffield City centre. During the industrial revolution, Sheffield was the ideal location for water powered workshops and hundreds of different water wheels were constructed along its five rivers. The earliest recorded records of water being used to power industrial machinery anywhere in the world is from the nearby River Don. It is however known that within a decade of this first water wheel on the River Don that there were over fifty different wheels within Sheffield. Many of these were along the Porter Brook Valley and ... Read the complete review
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