Woodseats Pubs

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The District of Woodseats is a vibrant and friendly district of Sheffield. It has four very old and long established pubs. There is very little information as to the origional building dates of these pubs, but The Abbey, The Big Tree and The Woodseats, most probably stood alone in the 1800's before the straight tarmac road snaked between them, because they don't line up perfectly with the road, as the shops next to them do.
All the old pubs in woodseats have outdoor drinking facilities, and Sky sports.

In addition to the old pubs, is the Woodseats Palace, which is a weatherspoons pub, which sells a geat variety of beers at the cheapest prices in the area.
 

The View of the back of The Abbey Sept 2000 Showing The Spacious Beer Garden And Well Used Bowling Green The Hill On The Right Is The Bottom Of Meadowhead

The Woodseats

This pub has a band on every Wednesday, jamming musiscians on sunday and karaoke too. The benches outside are great in the summer for watching life go buy, and great for the afternoon and the late evening sun as it faces south west.

Woodseats Website - Stuff about Karaoke, Entertainment, Disco And More

	In 1996 the Woodseats was The Floozy & Firkin
	Four Years Later in September 2000 It is Called The Woodseats

    Woodseats is now a large area at the south of Sheffield. But in 1780 it was two small hamlets several miles south of Sheffield, in the Derbyshire countryside, Upper Woodseats which was basically the area between the Big Tree and the Abbey, and Nether Woodseats, which was around the bottom of Scarsdale road. These were the days before Chesterfield Road joined these two hamlets together. In these days, the terrain was very hilly, and the main route south out of the town of Sheffield was via Derbyshire Lane, passing up the hill to the east.

    The modern day Chesterfield Road, where it cuts through Smithy Wood ( below Homebase ), is a considerable construction, and must have took 3 or 4 years of building on the steep hillside, presumably during the mid 1800's.
My estimation is that it was finished by around 1881, because the large victorian villas adjacent to it, were all built in 1882 & 1883. With this complete, a much gentler route toward Chesterfield was opened up and the Abbeydale Hotel, and Mason's Arms, will have made a good living providing rest for the travellers and horses between Sheffield and Chesterfield on the new route.
    Many of the terraces adjacent to the new main road - Chesterfield Road, shot up between 1890 and 1920, on rolling fields, But were still surrounded by countryside and trees. Even today, the area is surrounded on all sides with parks, woods and grassed areas.
    In the early 1900's the Derbyshire / Yorkshire border moved south, down Chesterfield Road from the Meers Brook next to Valley Road, Heeley, to Derbyshire lane, eventually to where it is now 2.5 miles further south at the Dronfield roundabout at Bowshaw.
    Up until the late 1960's, Woodseats was very well served by the Sheffield trams. They came along Chesterfield road, Meadowhead and Abbey Lane.
    Woodseats, like many districts had 2 cinema houses :- The Chantry Picture House, and Woodseats Palace. I am interested in finding out more information about these cinemas, as there is very little available, although both were long closed by 1970.