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The city of Sheffield – South Yorkshire has a city-classed population of over 535,000 people. In the English system of municipal classification it is also a metropolitan borough and the wider Sheffield Urban Area counts a population in excess of 650,000 people. The city has grown into a quite nice urban area over the centuries, moving from an industrialized center to a more diversified economic base.

The name of the city derives from the name of the River Sheaf, a waterway which runs through the heart of the town. It was perhaps the 1800s that saw Sheffield attain its widest renown, being then a center for the production of iron and steel products, with a skilled workforce to back up that effort. It was also in Sheffield that stainless steel was created, and the town really boomed during the Industrial Revolution.

Gradually, improvements in iron and steel production (along with competition) in other parts of the globe saw Sheffield lose its primacy in the making of iron and steel by the 1970s and 1980s. This happened to occur at the same time that coal mining as an industry began to diminish in the area and in the wider country, though Sheffield seems to have come through the hard times — especially in this new century — better than most.

This success is made evident through the fact of the diversification of its economy, which has also helped to contribute to a 5 percent annual growth rate over the last several years. The city’s rate of growth actually exceeds that of the wider Yorkshire and Humber region in which it is located, in fact. In terms of monetary valuation, Sheffield can boast of a gross added value of more than 7 million British pounds.

Sheffield is also known as being particularly fond of trees, with more of them per person than in any other city in Europe. The town has filled over 61% of its land area with trees, and more are planted every day with the help of local residents and under careful planning by the city council. It is also an area of scenic interest, being built up on several different hillsides which provide the opportunity for scenic vistas all about.

Historically, there is evidence of humans in the area going back nearly 13,000 years to the Upper Paleolithic era. Sheffield itself is the result of the merging of several communities of Anglo-Saxons and Danes at some point late in the second half of the first millennium. The town eventually gained the right to hold a market, which it did starting in 1296. By the 14th century, it had gained a sterling reputation for production of quality knives.

The city sits within the metropolitan county of South Yorkshire and has more than 1. 3 million residents that call the county home. It is also landlocked and has no access to the sea. It is the product of a 1974 reconfiguration of most local governing regions by the national government in an effort to streamline counties and the like. The county is made up of four different metropolitan areas, including Sheffield’s.

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