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A plan of George Hobson's mill, mill dam, weir, etc. at Heeley and of the contiguous parts of Benjamin Roebuck's estate with description of other adjacent lands and part of Heeley, by William Fairbank

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A plan of George Hobson's mill, mill dam, weir, etc. at Heeley and of the contiguous parts of Benjamin Roebuck's estate with description of other adjacent lands and part of Heeley, by William Fairbank
Sheffield_Heeley
1770
1500-1799

Shown on the map are the River Sheaf, Little London Lane, Far Meadow, Nearer Meadow, Taylor's Grinding Wheel, Turnpiek Road from Derby to Sheffield [Chesterfield Road], a toll bar [?Heeley Toll Bar at the bottom of Albert Road] and lands of Joshua Spooner, Samuel Shore, Jonathan Wainwright, Benjamin Roebuck and William Haworth.

It is believed the present day location of this area is near to 300 Broadfield Road Park, Broadfield Road, S8 0XQ.

Original at Sheffield Archives in the Hobson Collection (ref. HC/61).

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