The River Sheaf is a river in Sheffield, England. Its source is the union of the Totley Brook and the Old Hay Brook in Totley, now a suburb of Sheffield. It flows northwards, past Dore, through the valley called Abbeydale (so named because of Beauchief Abbey, which overlooks it) and north of Heeley. Its then passes into a culvert, through which if flows under the centre of Sheffield; it re-emerges above ground near Lady's Bridge where it joins the River Don. Historically, the Sheaf—along with its tributaries the Meers Brook and the Limb Brook—formed part of the border between the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Mercia and Northumbria; it remained on the border between Yorkshire and Derbyshire into the 20th century.

The city of Sheffield derives its name from the Sheaf. The main tributaries of the Sheaf are the Porter Brook and the Meers Brook. The river has been polluted upstream through centuries of industrial activity, including iron and steel working, and is only slowly recovering. The river used to provide the power for a number of metal works, an important surviving example of which is the Grade 1-listed Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet.

Rivers in Sheffield | Rivers in South Yorkshire

Rivière Sheaf