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    Welcome to The FoPV Website

     

    Reg.Charity No.1069865

We are Friends of the Porter Valley (FoPV),  Sheffield,  U.K.

STOP PRESS! To see a video of the 17th December Opening of Shepherd Wheel click here

The January Newsletter and Activities are now available - click on NEWSLETTER on the left-hand menu

Coming events:
Wednesday 1st February, "Wild Flowers of Derbyshire", a talk by Ken Balkow of the Sorby Society, 7:30pm, Bents Green Methodist Church Hall, Ringinglow Road
Saturday 4th February, "Reading the Landscape of the Mayfield Valley", a walk led by Peter Kennet, 10:30am, Forge Dam cafe

 

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SHEPHERD WHEEL, illustrated here by local artist Peter Elliot, is currently the focus of a major fund-raising campaign involving a partnership of organisations.    This project is well underway towards the objective of restoring this unique, historic, water-powered workshop, of 17 th. century origin, to working order.FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CLICK HERE OR ON THE PICTURE TO GO STRAIGHT TO THE SHEPHERD WHEEL PAGE LISTED NEXT TO THE TOP IN THE MENU (NAVIGATION BAR) AT THE LEFT OF THE SITE.

 

The Porter Brook rises on the high moors to the west of Sheffield.
 It descends 1,000 feet,   gathering tributary streams en-route, until it joins the River Sheaf near Sheffield’s railway station and bus depot complex after a journey of 5.8 miles.
The first 3.7 miles of that journey trace a wooded, rural valley
 largely unspoiled and with extensive parklands, footpaths and cycle tracks.

The Porter Valley offers a unique corridor of beauty and tranquility which extends from the
now regenerated and thriving heart of Sheffield, the U.K.’s  fifth largest city (England’s fourth)
 to the high moorlands of the Derbyshire Peak District, the U.K.’s first National Park.
 
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View down the length of Porter Valley from the near top of Jacob’s Ladder,
 (Porter Clough to Ringinglow path)
  towards Fulwood and Sheffield city centre.

Fulwood Church nestles in the trees extreme left (between 7 and 8 .o’clock from the TV mast on the skyline). The steeple of Ranmoor Church is prominent in the middle distance. To the right of this and closer is the Health Authority Building in Fulwood, beyond which is the Hallamshire Hostpital and beyond that, in the distance are the redundant twin cooling towers which stand within a few feet of the M1 motorway.

The distant power station fits the compass bearing for Thorne Power Station around 31 miles away.

 PEERING INTO THE DISTANCE ?
CLICK ON THE PHOTOGRAPH FOR A ZOOMED IN VIEW


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                   SITE  UPDATED     4th Jan 2012.

   

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