- Burngreave
:"Grimesthorpe redirects here. It should not be confused with
Grimethorpe , near Barnsley."UKWard
name=Burngreave
district=Sheffield
constituency=Sheffield Central
county=South Yorkshire
region=Yorkshire and the Humber
population= 24,000
councillors=Jacqueline Drayton (Labour Party) Ibrar Hussian (Labour Party) Stephen Jones (Labour Party)Burngreave ward—which includes the districts of Burngreave, Fir Vale, Grimesthorpe, Pitsmoor, and Shirecliffe—is one of the 28 electoral wards in City of Sheffield,
England . It is located in the northern part of the city and covers an area of 7.3 km2. The population of this ward in 2001 was 24,000 people in 9,900 households. It is one of the wards that make up the Sheffield Central constituency.Districts of Burngreave ward
Burngreave
Burngreave (gbmapping|SK363884) is a suburb of Sheffield that started to develop in the second half of the 19th century. Prior to this, this area was mostly covered by "Burnt Greave" wood (most of the area of the wood is now covered by Burngreave cemetery). Grimesthorpe Lane, which runs through Burngreave, is a very old road that follows the course of the "Roman Ridge" a man-made defensive ridge—probably built by the
Celt icBrigantes tribe—that used to run from near the Wicker toMexborough .Most of the ward is served by a free community newspaper, the
Burngreave Messenger .Fir Vale
Grimesthorpe
Pitsmoor
Pitsmoor (gbmapping|SK362893) is a former village, now a suburb of Sheffield. The name derives from "Ore-pits" as, anciently, this areas main industry was the mining of
ore .hirecliffe
Population
This district of Sheffield is home to a large percentage of
Sheffield 's ethnic minority population as these statistics from the 2001 census show:*
White British : 58.5%
*Black British : 12.3%
*British Asian : 22.9%
*British Chinese & other: 1.6
*Mixed : 4.7
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