Dore and Totley
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Dore and Totley ward is one of the 28 electoral wards in City of Sheffield, England. It is located in the southwestern part of the city. It covers an area of 26.3 square kilometres and includes the districts of Dore, Totley, Bradway and Whirlow. The population of this ward in 2001 was 16,400 people in 7,000 households. In the 2004 local elections Keith Leonard Hill (Liberal Democrat), Anne Catherine Smith (Conservative), and Michael Julian Christopher Waters (Conservative) were returned as councillors for the ward. Dore and Totley ward is one of the five wards that make up the Sheffield Hallam Parliamentary constituency.
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Districts of Dore and Totley ward
Dore
Main article: Dore
Dore (grid reference SK311812 (http://www.rhaworth.myby.co.uk/oscoor_a.htm?SK311812_region:GB_scale:25000)) is a village in South Yorkshire. Until 1934 it was part of Derbyshire, but it is now a suburb of Sheffield. The village lies on a hill above the River Sheaf, and has a reputation of being Sheffield’s wealthiest suburb.
Totley
Totley (grid reference SK309799 (http://www.rhaworth.myby.co.uk/oscoor_a.htm?SK309799_region:GB_scale:25000)) is a suburb on the extreme southwest of Sheffield, next to the Yorkshire/Derbyshire boundary. Formerly a Derbyshire village, Totley officially became part of Sheffield in 1935.
Totley was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Totinglee, the name meaning a forest clearing belonging to Tota (probably the Saxon lord). Totley Hall, built in 1623 and enlarged in the 19th century, was converted to a teacher training college in the 1950s and was latterly part of Sheffield Hallam University.
Totley is roughly divided into three areas: Totley, New Totley and Totley Rise. It is served by the Baslow road, which is a continuation of Abbeydale Road South (A621).
Through the district run the Totley Brook and the Old Hay Brook, which are the two sources of the River Sheaf. Totley also lends its name to the longest underland rail tunnel in the UK. This runs from Grindleford in Derbyshire to the Totley Moors on the Sheffield to Manchester line.
Bradway
Bradway grid reference SK330805 (http://www.rhaworth.myby.co.uk/oscoor_a.htm?SK330805_region:GB_scale:25000) is a suburb in the south of Sheffield composed of three former Derbyshire villages: Upper Bradway, Bradway, and Lower Bradway. Bradway was annexed by Sheffield in the 1930s, thus placing it in the ceremonial county of South Yorkshire. The Bradway Tunnel opened in 1870 and carries the Midland Main Line underneath Bradway on its route from Sheffield to Chesterfield.
Whirlow
Whirlow (grid reference SK317828 (http://www.rhaworth.myby.co.uk/oscoor_a.htm?SK317828_region:GB_scale:25000)) lies north west of Dore, on the Limb Brook. It is home to a city farm and two parks. Whirlowbrook park is set in the 39 acre grounds of Whilrowbrook Hall (built 1906) the former home of Sheffield industrialist Sir Walter Benton-Jones (1880–1967).
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| Arbourthorne | Beauchief and Greenhill | Beighton | Birley | Broomhill | Burngreave | Central | Crookes | Darnall | Dore and Totley | East Ecclesfield | Ecclesall | Firth Park | Fulwood | Gleadless Valley | Graves Park | Hillsborough | Manor Castle | Mosborough | Nether Edge | Richmond | Shiregreen and Brightside | Southey | Stannington | Stocksbridge and Upper Don | Walkley | West Ecclesfield | Woodhouse |
