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One of the north's key cities, Sheffield is home to over half a million people and borders on the beautiful Peak District National Park.
The city also has a plethora of parks and woodland areas within it's bounds, and set as it is in the rolling Yorkshire hills just east of the Pennines, Sheffield boasts some of the best views in the country.
The city became famous for it's steel-making, cutlery in particular, during the height of the Industrial Revolution - even now Sheffield steel is renowned for its quality - but before this success Sheffield had grown from humble Anglo-Saxon beginnings, through Norman occupation to become a bustling settlement.
Apart from steel, the coal trade, alongside other types of mining in the area, brought prosperity - in fact, local limestone was used in the construction of the Houses of Parliament in London.
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