"The Old Queen's Head", Pond Hill, Sheffield
Introduction
The photograph on this page of "The Old Queen's Head", Pond Hill, Sheffield by Neil Theasby as part of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over 14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
"The Old Queen's Head", Pond Hill, Sheffield
Image: © Neil Theasby Taken: 2 Jan 2017
"The Old Queen's Head" is the oldest domestic building in Sheffield. This timber framed building is thought to date from around 1475, although the earliest known written record of it is in an inventory compiled in 1582 of the estate of George Talbot, the 6th Earl of Shrewsbury that included the furnishings of this building, which was then called "The hawle at the Poandes". As a part of the Earl's estate, it may have been used as a banqueting hall for parties hunting wildfowl in the nearby ponds. These ponds, which formed in the area where the Porter Brook meets the River Sheaf, are now gone, but are commemorated in the local names Pond Street, Pond Hill (formerly Pond Well Hill) and Ponds Forge.
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Image Location
Latitude
53.380893
Longitude
-1.46328