Manor, South Yorkshire

Manor Castle ward is one of the 28 electoral wards in City of Sheffield, England. It is located in the eastern part of the city. It covers an area of 5.4 square kilometres and includes the districts of Manor, Manor Park, Wybourn, Park Hill and Claywood. The population of this ward in 2001 was 21,000 people in 9,700 households. In the 2004 local elections Janet (Jan) Maria Fiore, Patricia Anne Midgley, and Janet (Jan) Mary Wilson—all Labour Party candidates—were returned as councilors for the ward.

Districts of Manor Castle ward

Manor

Grid reference: SK387862 Manor is a large low-rise housing estate in eastern Sheffield, England. It is divided into Manor Park, Upper and Lower Manor, and Manor Top.

Prior to the 1930s, the area was mostly rural, with housing only along the main roads. In the Victorian period, Sheffield’s main depository for human waste lay in the Manor area.

The estate was begun in the 1930s as a garden city type development, to alleviate overcrowding in central Sheffield. Unlike true garden cities, places of work were not included in the scheme.

Manor is named for Sheffield Manor, which is adjacent to Manor Park. Manor Top is now served by the Sheffield Supertram. Large areas of the estate were demolished, and in some cases rebuilt with private funding, from the late 1990s on.

Wybourn

Wybourn (Grid reference: SK373871) is a council estate, built in the 1920s, lying north of Manor Park and east of Park Hill. In the north west of the district lies Hyde Park, originally a larger version of Park Hill, but since reduced in scale with the demolition of some blocks and the recladding and alteration of circulation elsewhere.

Park Hill

Main article: Park Hill Grid reference: SK364875