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Osprey Gardens, SHEFFIELD, S2 5GE

Social housing in an area of Sheffield known as Sheffield Park. It was once a hunting ground connected with nearby Sheffield Manor where Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned for fourteen years.

For some reason all of the maps and street guides use different spellings for the street names and the area. On the left you can see the building site for the new health centre, on the right is local authority built housing.

Former public house on Sheffield's Manor Estate - with residential accommodation above.

To the left there's Quail Rise and on the right Plover Court. All the streets and closes off Skye Edge Avenue are named after British birds.

Sheffield Manor Lodge, once the centre of a vast medieval deer park (over 2000 deer). In the early 16th century the Earl of Shrewsbury remodelled the medieval hunting lodge into one of the grandest manor houses in the North of England. Mary, Queen of Scots, was imprisoned in the Manor House from 1570 until 1584. Only the gatehouse remains although there are plenty of ruins.

This Grade II* Tudor building was the gatehouse to Sheffield Manor Lodge where Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned by the Earl of Shrewsbury for 14 years. Once at the heart of a great deer park it now sits somewhat incongruously in the middle of a large housing estate.

Seen between houses on Southend Road. In the nineteenth century the idea was put forward that The Turret House was built as a prison for Mary Queen of Scots, but its location on the garden boundary wall adjacent to the entrance gate would make such a purpose unlikely. The building's architecture and ornate internal plaster-work have been discussed in detail in various publications. A building account in the notebooks of William Dickinson dated to 1574 may refer to its construction. Mary was detained at Sheffield Manor between 1570 and 1584.

Detail on the gatehouse of Manor Lodge, Sheffield. Originally built about 1516 in what then was a large deer park east of Sheffield to provide a country retreat and further accommodate George Talbot, the 4th Earl of Shrewsbury, and his large family. The gatehouse is the only remaining intact building.