In the 1830s the cutlery manufacturer George Wostenholm began buying up farm land in the Sharrow area. Here he built a country mansion, ‘Kenwood’ (now part of the Kenwood Hall Hotel), and in 1853 he announced plans to develop the land next to it into a suburb of 'gentleman's residences' called Kenwood Park, intended for well-to-do people wishing to move out of the smoke and dirt of the city centre. A
ssisted by Robert Marnock, designer and curator of the Botanical Gardens, he laid out winding, tree-lined streets divided into building plots which over the ensuing decades became filled with the large Victorian houses of Sheffield’s business and professional class. Kenwood Park, its avenues, trees and houses, remains today one of Sheffield's most attractive suburbs.
This walk explores its early development and the ups and downs of its later history, and looks at its streets and houses and the people who lived in them. The walk begins outside the Stag’s Head pub on Psalter Lane, lasts for one and a half to two hours, and finishes on Wostenholm Road, where buses run into the city centre.
The walk begins from The Stag's Head, 15 Psalter Lane, S11 8YN.
