[173] Live music venues in the city include the Harley Hotel, Leadmill, Maggie Mays, West Street Live, the Boardwalk, Dove & Rainbow, The Greystones, The Casbah, The Cremorne, Corporation, New Barrack Tavern, The Broadfield Hotel, Redstone bar and nightclub, the City Hall, the University of Sheffield Students' Union, the Studio Theatre at the Crucible Theatre, the O2 Academy Sheffield and The Grapes. Sheffield is within a green belt region that extends into the wider surrounding counties, and is in place to reduce urban sprawl, prevent the towns and areas in the Sheffield built-up area conurbation from further convergence, protect the identity of outlying communities, encourage brownfield reuse, and preserve nearby countryside. A recruitment source has told Football Insider that the two clubs are in discussions over  a deal costing around £5million. Substitutes not used Wildsmith (gk), Semedo, Nuhiu, McGugan, Wiggins, Sougou. Sheffield is served by modern roads and is the major shopping and cultural centre in South Yorkshire. Made up of 89 individual jets of water, this fountain lies at the corner of the quarter-circle shaped Peace Gardens and is named after Stuart Goodwin, a notable Sheffield industrialist. Many landmark buildings such as Meadowhall and the Sheffield Wednesday ground flooded due to being close to rivers that flow through the city. [80][81] Local folklore insists that, like Rome, Sheffield was built "on seven hills". A further four cities have a Friendship Agreement with Sheffield: Two roads in Sheffield have been named after sister cities; a section of the A6102 in Norton is named Bochum Parkway, and a road in Hackenthorpe is named Donetsk Way. [195] There are many parks and woods throughout the city and beyond. There are six areas within the city that are designated as sites of special scientific interest.[51]. Do you think the average British citizen is aware of how difficult life in the UK is about to become? Sixty-one per cent of Sheffield's entire area is green space, and a third of the city lies within the Peak District national park. Sheffield is largely unparished, but Bradfield and Ecclesfield have parish councils, and Stocksbridge has a town council. The documentary festival Sheffield Doc/Fest has been run annually since 1994 at the Showroom Cinema,[218] and in 2007 Sheffield hosted the Awards of the International Indian Film Academy. Music Sales Group, Ben Osborne (2013). Sheffield has two universities, the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University. The area now occupied by the City of Sheffield is believed to have been inhabited since at least the late Upper Paleolithic, about 12,800 years ago. Are you sure you want to delete this comment? It describes itself as the largest promoter of chamber music outside London. Rotherham United, who play in League One, did play their home games in the city between 2008 and 2012, having moved to play at Sheffield's Don Valley Stadium in 2008 following a dispute with their previous landlord at their traditional home ground of Millmoor, Rotherham. During the 1970s and early 1980s the two sides fell from grace, with Wednesday finding themselves in the Third Division by the mid 70s and United as far as the Fourth Division in 1981. The Pennines to the west of the city can create a cool, gloomy and wet environment, but they also provide shelter from the prevailing westerly winds, casting a "rain shadow" across the area. In the 19th century, the city saw a huge expansion of its traditional cutlery trade, when stainless steel and crucible steel were developed locally, fuelling an almost tenfold increase in the population. The repertoire at two nearby places can vary widely, and woe betide those who try to strike up a ‘foreign’ carol.