—which includes the
Districts of '''Burngreave''', '''Fir Vale''', '''Grimesthorpe''', '''Pitsmoor''', and '''Shirecliffe'''—is one of the 28 electoral wards in
City Of Sheffield ,
England . It is located in the northern part of the city and covers an area of 7.3 km
2. The population of this ward in
2001 was 24,000 people in 9,900 households. In the 2004 local elections Jacqueline Drayton, Ibrar Hussian, and Stephen Christopher Sutton Jones—all
Labour Party candidates—were returned as councillors for the ward.
() is a suburb of Sheffield that started to develop in the second half of the
19th Century . Prior to this, this area was mostly covered by ''Burnt Greave'' wood (most of the area of the wood is now covered by Burngreave cemetery). Grimesthorpe Lane, which runs through Burngreave, is a very old road that follows the course of the ''Roman Ridge'' a man-made defensive ridge—probably built by the
Celt ic
Brigantes tribe—that used to run from near the Wicker to
Mexborough .
Most of the ward is served by a free community newspaper, the
Burngreave Messenger .
() is a former village, now a suburb of Sheffield. The name derives from ''Ore-pits'' as, anciently, this areas main industry was the mining of
Ore .
This district of Sheffield is home to a large percentage of
Sheffield 's ethinc minority population as these statistics from the 2001 census show:
White: 58.5%
Black: 12.3%
Asian: 22.9%
Chinese & other: 1.6
Mixed: 4.7
