Crookes Valley Park
A steep-sided park around an old dam, joined to Weston Park by a green corridor.
Crookes Valley Park is built around the Old Great Dam, one of the reservoirs that once supplied water power to the cutlery works downstream, now a lake ringed by a steep wooded bank.
Together with Weston Park and the Ponderosa it forms a continuous green walk from the university quarter back down towards the city centre.
Highlights
- Historic Old Great Dam
- Lakeside walk
- Joins Weston Park
Nearby in Sheffield
Museums & galleries
Weston Park Museum
Sheffield's main museum — history, archaeology and natural history — set in a Victorian park near the university.
Parks & gardens
Weston Park
Sheffield's first public park, a Victorian garden between the university and the museum.
Landmarks
Firth Court & Western Bank
The red-brick Edwardian heart of the University of Sheffield, opened by Edward VII.