2 Blogs for Sheffield ©
2 Blogs for Sheffield

2 Blogs for Sheffield

A walking-tour guide's history of the streets most people hurry through, and a veteran outdoor writer's magazine for the city's wild edges

Sheffield's best independent writing is in two Substack newsletters, and both are by people who have lived the subject for years. A local historian who runs walking tours writes two or three pieces a week on the city centre's streets, lost buildings and old photographs. A feature writer who has covered Sheffield's outdoors for thirty years runs a magazine about its rivers, woods, parks and the volunteers who look after them.

Between them they lead to Fitzalan Square, with a medieval lane still running across it, and to Wardsend, an overgrown cemetery above the Don.

Further Reading

2 Blogs for Sheffield

  1. 01 Fitzalan Square hiddensheffield.substack.com · Calvin Payne Calvin Payne runs the Hidden Sheffield walking tours, and his Substack has two or three pieces a week on the history of Sheffield's streets, many of them the grimy corners people walk straight past. Some posts are for paid subscribers only.
  2. 02 Upper Don and Little Don abitblackoverbillsmothers.substack.com A magazine about wildlife, walking and the volunteer groups who look after Sheffield's green spaces and the northern Peak District, by a writer who has covered them in the local press for thirty years. Some posts are for paid subscribers.

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