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EcclesallEcclesall is a suburb and a parish in the City of Sheffield, England. It is located in the south-west of the city, centred roughly on the parish church at the intersection of Carter Knowle Road and Ecclesall Road. The present church, dedicated to All Saints, was built in 1789 and has been altered several times since. Banner Cross Hall, also in the area, was built in 1820. Ecclesall is also the name of one of Sheffield's 28 electoral wards, each ward electing three members to the Sheffield City Council. Ecclesall ward covers an area of 9.4 square kilometres and includes the districts of Ecclesall, Greystones, Millhouses, Bents Green, and Ringinglow. The population of this ward in 2001 was 18,600 people in 7,300 households. Ecclesall ward is one of the five wards that make up the Sheffield Hallam constituency whose elected Member of Parliament is currently Richard Allan. Ecclesall Road is the main road (A625) from central Sheffield to the south west, at first following the Porter Brook, then running through Ecclesall and Dore. The road is a major shopping area. Attractions including the Sheffield Botanical Gardens and the Sheffield General Cemetery lie alongside it, as do two of the three campuses of Sheffield Hallam University. History Historically the term Ecclesall refers to a much larger section of what is now Sheffield. This was Ecclesall Bierlow, one of the six townships that made up the ancient parish of Sheffield. Ecclesall Bierlow encompassed most of the land between the River Sheaf and the Porter Brook from The Moor to Ringinglow. It also included the areas of Broomhall and Crookesmoor to the north of Porter Brook. Though this area contained numerous small villages and hamlets, there was never a village called Ecclesall. The name Ecclesall (from 'Heeksel-Hallr' meaning the witches' hill) is not mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086—at that time Ecclesall was a part of the manor of Hallam. The name is first found about 150 years later in the name of Sir Ralphus De Ecclesall a knight of the realm who had settled in the area. The De Ecclesall family gave land to the monks at Beauchief and established a corn mill on the river Sheaf (which they subsequently also gave to Beauchief Abbey. Many of the buildings of Ecclesall corn mill can still be seen at the northern end of Millhouses park—the area Millhouses taking its name from this mill. In payment for the mill the monks of Beauchief were to provide a canon to say prayers daily at the Ecclesall chapel, a small chapel that had been built in 1046. These services continued at the chapel until the Dissolution of the Monestries when Beauchief Abbey was abandoned. The chapel was restored in 1622 but was demolished when the present church was built nearby in 1789. Until the 19th century Ecclesall Bierlow was very sparcely populated—in 1801 there were just 5362 people. This changed with the coming of the industrial revolution and the subsequent expansion of nearby Sheffield and by 1831 the population had increased to 14,239. In 1837 the Ecclesall Bierlow Poor Law Union came into being. As well as Ecclesall Bierlow, this encompassed Nether Hallam, Upper Hallam, Beauchief, Dore, Norton, and Totley. A workhouse was built on Cherry Tree Hill at Nether Edge. In 1929 the Ecclesall Bierlow Workhouse was renamed Nether Edge Hospital and it remained in use as a hospital into the 1990s. References - Hunter, Joseph (1819). The Township of Ecclesall Byerlow. In Hallamshire. The History and Topography of the Parish of Sheffield in the County of York, pp195–219. London: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mayor & Jones. This book is out of print but can be purchased on CD-ROM
- Vickers, J. Edward MBE (1999). Ecclesall. In Old Sheffield Town. An Historical Miscellany (2nd ed.), pp58–64. Sheffield: The Hallamshire Press Limited. ISBN 1-874718-44-X.
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