The River Loxley is a river in the City of Sheffield South Yorkshire, England. Its source is a series of streams which rise some 10 miles (16km) in the north-west of Sheffield on Bradfield Moors, and converge at Low Bradfield. It flows easterly through Damflask Reservoir and is joined by Storrs Brook at Storrs, near Stannington, and the River Rivelin at Malin Bridge, before flowing into the River Don at Owlerton, in Hillsborough. The Loxley valley provided the initial course of the Great Sheffield Flood, which happened after the Dale Dyke Dam collapsed shortly before its completion in March 1864.
Water supply
The upper river is marked by the presence of four large reservoirs, used for the impounding of drinking water. Drinking water for the people of Sheffield was provided by five small reservoirs on a site close to Langsett Road. Others were added as the population grew, but by 1830, they could not keep up with the demand. Sheffield Water Company became responsible for water supply after an Act of Parliament was passed in 1830, and their first major reservoir was completed in 1836, when Wyming Brook was dammed to form the Redmires Middle Reservoir.
Simon Ogden speaking at the 2019 Wild Trout Trust/Mersey Rivers Trust Urban Rivers Conclave in Stalybridge. This event is part of the WTT's Trout in the Town project: https://www.wildtrout.org/content/trout-town
Sheffield is a city founded on its rivers - particularly the Sheaf (from which it gets its name), Don, Porter, Rivelin and Loxley. Over the decades multiple innovative projects that rely on collaboration between City Council, Environment Agency, Don Catchment Rivers Trust, Wildlife Trusts, Local Community Groups and other Charitable Sector Organisations (including the Wild Trout Trust) have been completed.
Here Simon talks specifically as the Chair of the Sheffield Waterways Strategy Group in a voluntary capacity. At the same time he has valuable insights from a Town Planner pe...
published: 03 Feb 2020
Storm Christoph Hits Hillsborough, UK : River Loxley almost flooded the balcony of people's homes
Hillsborough, Sheffield 20/01/2021
published: 20 Jan 2021
HFTV - The River Loxley
Hillsborough Forum consulted with local people to find out their opinions about the wier on the Loxley at Hillsborough Corner in Sheffield, post the Summer flooding.
published: 11 Dec 2007
loxley river slackline
sunny saturday in march
slackline over the river at loxley, very wobbly :)
music - got it good, Isosceles
published: 09 Mar 2014
Cold Water Swimming Sheffield River Loxley
Quick dip in the river (it is March after all). Loxley Valley Sheffield
published: 19 Mar 2021
Loxley river comes down July 2012
One of the five rivers coming down in to Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England is the Loxley from about westwards. It passes through an area known as Hillsborough in Sheffield and carries on until it reaches town and joins up with others. On the film is the Hillsborough Corner. July of 2012
published: 07 Jul 2012
Flooding in the Loxley Valley 20/1/21
published: 20 Jan 2021
Wildside
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Simon Ogden speaking at the 2019 Wild Trout Trust/Mersey Rivers Trust Urban Rivers Conclave in Stalybridge. This event is part of the WTT's Trout in the Town pr...
Simon Ogden speaking at the 2019 Wild Trout Trust/Mersey Rivers Trust Urban Rivers Conclave in Stalybridge. This event is part of the WTT's Trout in the Town project: https://www.wildtrout.org/content/trout-town
Sheffield is a city founded on its rivers - particularly the Sheaf (from which it gets its name), Don, Porter, Rivelin and Loxley. Over the decades multiple innovative projects that rely on collaboration between City Council, Environment Agency, Don Catchment Rivers Trust, Wildlife Trusts, Local Community Groups and other Charitable Sector Organisations (including the Wild Trout Trust) have been completed.
Here Simon talks specifically as the Chair of the Sheffield Waterways Strategy Group in a voluntary capacity. At the same time he has valuable insights from a Town Planner perspective via his experience within Sheffield City Council as well as voluntary roles with the Five Weirs Walk Trust and the newly-formed Sheaf and Porter Rivers Trust:
https://www.sheafportertrust.org/
It is especially worth noting the inventive ways that local communities are being contacted and engaged - especially in relation to the Porter Brook and River Sheaf projects that the Sheaf and Porter Rivers Trust are currently initiating.
One especially unusual - and unexpectedly popular - initiative has been to set up "urban caving" tours of the buried rivers beneath the city streets. At the time of the talk, over 1500 clients had taken tours with qualified guides - and each newly-advertised expedition has sold out almost immediately every time.
Deculverting where possible and accounting for an extremely wide range of views and interests - the work has an ambitious scale; but if previous achievements are anything to go by it is not unrealistic. Their tagline is to "Put the Sheaf Back into Sheffield" - and this even includes inviting the public to help paint the river and its inhabitants onto the road and pavement crossing a buried section of the river.
Some of the key subject areas and themes within Simon's talk include:
Urban rivers Management and Community Engagement
Trout in the Town
Sheaf and Porter Trust
Put the Sheaf Back into Sheffield
Wild Trout
Deculverting
Daylighting
Urban exploration and Buried Rivers
Why Sheffield is the "City of rivers"
Simon Ogden speaking at the 2019 Wild Trout Trust/Mersey Rivers Trust Urban Rivers Conclave in Stalybridge. This event is part of the WTT's Trout in the Town project: https://www.wildtrout.org/content/trout-town
Sheffield is a city founded on its rivers - particularly the Sheaf (from which it gets its name), Don, Porter, Rivelin and Loxley. Over the decades multiple innovative projects that rely on collaboration between City Council, Environment Agency, Don Catchment Rivers Trust, Wildlife Trusts, Local Community Groups and other Charitable Sector Organisations (including the Wild Trout Trust) have been completed.
Here Simon talks specifically as the Chair of the Sheffield Waterways Strategy Group in a voluntary capacity. At the same time he has valuable insights from a Town Planner perspective via his experience within Sheffield City Council as well as voluntary roles with the Five Weirs Walk Trust and the newly-formed Sheaf and Porter Rivers Trust:
https://www.sheafportertrust.org/
It is especially worth noting the inventive ways that local communities are being contacted and engaged - especially in relation to the Porter Brook and River Sheaf projects that the Sheaf and Porter Rivers Trust are currently initiating.
One especially unusual - and unexpectedly popular - initiative has been to set up "urban caving" tours of the buried rivers beneath the city streets. At the time of the talk, over 1500 clients had taken tours with qualified guides - and each newly-advertised expedition has sold out almost immediately every time.
Deculverting where possible and accounting for an extremely wide range of views and interests - the work has an ambitious scale; but if previous achievements are anything to go by it is not unrealistic. Their tagline is to "Put the Sheaf Back into Sheffield" - and this even includes inviting the public to help paint the river and its inhabitants onto the road and pavement crossing a buried section of the river.
Some of the key subject areas and themes within Simon's talk include:
Urban rivers Management and Community Engagement
Trout in the Town
Sheaf and Porter Trust
Put the Sheaf Back into Sheffield
Wild Trout
Deculverting
Daylighting
Urban exploration and Buried Rivers
Why Sheffield is the "City of rivers"
Hillsborough Forum consulted with local people to find out their opinions about the wier on the Loxley at Hillsborough Corner in Sheffield, post the Summer floo...
Hillsborough Forum consulted with local people to find out their opinions about the wier on the Loxley at Hillsborough Corner in Sheffield, post the Summer flooding.
Hillsborough Forum consulted with local people to find out their opinions about the wier on the Loxley at Hillsborough Corner in Sheffield, post the Summer flooding.
One of the five rivers coming down in to Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England is the Loxley from about westwards. It passes through an area known as Hillsborou...
One of the five rivers coming down in to Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England is the Loxley from about westwards. It passes through an area known as Hillsborough in Sheffield and carries on until it reaches town and joins up with others. On the film is the Hillsborough Corner. July of 2012
One of the five rivers coming down in to Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England is the Loxley from about westwards. It passes through an area known as Hillsborough in Sheffield and carries on until it reaches town and joins up with others. On the film is the Hillsborough Corner. July of 2012
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Wildside · Robin Loxley · Emanuel Vo Williams
Alt Hip Hop
℗ 2017 Extreme Music
Released on: 2017-05-02
Auto-generated by Yo...
Provided to YouTube by TuneCore
Wildside · Robin Loxley · Emanuel Vo Williams
Alt Hip Hop
℗ 2017 Extreme Music
Released on: 2017-05-02
Auto-generated by YouTube.
Provided to YouTube by TuneCore
Wildside · Robin Loxley · Emanuel Vo Williams
Alt Hip Hop
℗ 2017 Extreme Music
Released on: 2017-05-02
Auto-generated by YouTube.
Simon Ogden speaking at the 2019 Wild Trout Trust/Mersey Rivers Trust Urban Rivers Conclave in Stalybridge. This event is part of the WTT's Trout in the Town project: https://www.wildtrout.org/content/trout-town
Sheffield is a city founded on its rivers - particularly the Sheaf (from which it gets its name), Don, Porter, Rivelin and Loxley. Over the decades multiple innovative projects that rely on collaboration between City Council, Environment Agency, Don Catchment Rivers Trust, Wildlife Trusts, Local Community Groups and other Charitable Sector Organisations (including the Wild Trout Trust) have been completed.
Here Simon talks specifically as the Chair of the Sheffield Waterways Strategy Group in a voluntary capacity. At the same time he has valuable insights from a Town Planner perspective via his experience within Sheffield City Council as well as voluntary roles with the Five Weirs Walk Trust and the newly-formed Sheaf and Porter Rivers Trust:
https://www.sheafportertrust.org/
It is especially worth noting the inventive ways that local communities are being contacted and engaged - especially in relation to the Porter Brook and River Sheaf projects that the Sheaf and Porter Rivers Trust are currently initiating.
One especially unusual - and unexpectedly popular - initiative has been to set up "urban caving" tours of the buried rivers beneath the city streets. At the time of the talk, over 1500 clients had taken tours with qualified guides - and each newly-advertised expedition has sold out almost immediately every time.
Deculverting where possible and accounting for an extremely wide range of views and interests - the work has an ambitious scale; but if previous achievements are anything to go by it is not unrealistic. Their tagline is to "Put the Sheaf Back into Sheffield" - and this even includes inviting the public to help paint the river and its inhabitants onto the road and pavement crossing a buried section of the river.
Some of the key subject areas and themes within Simon's talk include:
Urban rivers Management and Community Engagement
Trout in the Town
Sheaf and Porter Trust
Put the Sheaf Back into Sheffield
Wild Trout
Deculverting
Daylighting
Urban exploration and Buried Rivers
Why Sheffield is the "City of rivers"
Hillsborough Forum consulted with local people to find out their opinions about the wier on the Loxley at Hillsborough Corner in Sheffield, post the Summer flooding.
One of the five rivers coming down in to Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England is the Loxley from about westwards. It passes through an area known as Hillsborough in Sheffield and carries on until it reaches town and joins up with others. On the film is the Hillsborough Corner. July of 2012
Provided to YouTube by TuneCore
Wildside · Robin Loxley · Emanuel Vo Williams
Alt Hip Hop
℗ 2017 Extreme Music
Released on: 2017-05-02
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The River Loxley is a river in the City of Sheffield South Yorkshire, England. Its source is a series of streams which rise some 10 miles (16km) in the north-west of Sheffield on Bradfield Moors, and converge at Low Bradfield. It flows easterly through Damflask Reservoir and is joined by Storrs Brook at Storrs, near Stannington, and the River Rivelin at Malin Bridge, before flowing into the River Don at Owlerton, in Hillsborough. The Loxley valley provided the initial course of the Great Sheffield Flood, which happened after the Dale Dyke Dam collapsed shortly before its completion in March 1864.
Water supply
The upper river is marked by the presence of four large reservoirs, used for the impounding of drinking water. Drinking water for the people of Sheffield was provided by five small reservoirs on a site close to Langsett Road. Others were added as the population grew, but by 1830, they could not keep up with the demand. Sheffield Water Company became responsible for water supply after an Act of Parliament was passed in 1830, and their first major reservoir was completed in 1836, when Wyming Brook was dammed to form the Redmires Middle Reservoir.
It's also at the confluence of five water sources – the River Don and its four tributaries, the Sheaf, Rivelin, Loxley and Porter Brook – which played no small part in its evolution.
The buildings, which will sit on the site of the former Science Park on Howard Street, have been named Rivelin, Loxley and Porter after the city’s rivers ... Loxley will contain the Institute of ...