Moving to Sheffield area

[KD227]

Hi!

My husband has been offered a promotion, which means we will have to relocate from Herts to somewhere commutable to Sheffield (up to 45 minutes). Having only travelled to the Peaks a couple of times, I don't really know that area at all and have absolutely no idea where to start looking. Please could anyone offer some suggestions that may be suitable? I have 3 boys, so we are looking for good primaries and secondaries, preferably outside of the big towns (semi rural), 4 beds, with some outside space and have a budget of about £375K.

Thanks so much to anyone that can help! I'm completely lost...

Bump - I'd be interested to know too. Have heard that Beauchief is nice? Or am I completely wrong? And Chapel-en-le-Frith? Anyone?

Buxton area is lovely, plenty of houses like this

Friends of mine do it, they reckon it's an hour, not sure I believe them - it's not a drive I've done though.
Yes, I agree that Dore and Totley are lovely and would also avoid Stannington.

Totally agree with AM

maybe something like this?

Beauchief is a lovely area, but doesn't have a great catchment in terms of state secondary schools as far as I know. For that reason, house prices are a little lower than some of the surrounding nice areas.

If you want to be in-between town and country, Ecclesall is naice. Lots of parks on the doorstep, on the edge of the round walk, which takes you into the peak district, yet walkable to town. The prices for houses are higher south of the city, but the schools are generally great. It's rubbish for the motorway, but it's dead easy to get into town, so you can get the train easily, and it's good for trekking out into the Peaks.

I moved to Sheffield 25 years ago and wouldn't live anywhere else. I love it.

That house looks gorgeous soaccidentprone. Makes me want to move!

I now have house envy - having spent the morning repotting the house plants, and am now about to tackle cleaning the kitchen window, sill and frame.

I just looked at the Sheffield Forum (useful for local knowledge if you want to find out anything specific about the area) and the consensus is that an S10 or S11 postcode are best if you want to live in Sheffield. That's not to put down other areas. You can find lovely houses and good streets all over the city, but the S10/S11 postcodes will bring you good primary schools and secondaries and they are generally well resourced.

My girl is at High Storrs and loves it to pieces. I have friends with older siblings who have gone there and ended up at Oxbridge. A friend's son ended up in University London College. They have a great mix of socio-economic backgrounds which I think gives a kid a great grounding. It's not as exclusive as Silverdale or King Edwards, but it's got a great feel about it, in my opinion.

Dore is lovely. If you want to be further out look at the stops on hope valley train line, but be prepared for bad winter weather!

I'd live close to the botanical gardens and all the shops and restaurants on the Eccleshall Road. Dore is very new money.

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Fulwood, Totley, Dore, Broomhill (parts of), Whirlow - are all nice. Basically, anywhere west of the city centre that's not Stannington. Lucky you, you'll get a really nice house up there with Hertfordshire money :)

drongiekd is really nice, great prinaty schools, a pretty good secondary school, 20 min commute and only 5 mins to the peaks. its quite cheap compared to equivalent areas in Sheffield. this housd looks quite nice

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Trying again!

The nice thing about Sheffield is that you can be close to the city but still feel like you're in countryside. Sheffield had loads of green spaces. We live in Crookes which we love, but bigger houses are rarer.

Lodgemoor is great for this short commute but sit rights on the edge of the city.
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Broomhill has a lovely vibe, the city is walking distance and had great primary and secondary schools, this is a nce house
www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-40333003.html

I'm not convinced that it would be a 20min commute from Dronfield at rush hour into the city under 45mins but not as quick as 20mins.

Thought I'd NC for this so was inspired by Artexmonkey

I can vouch for the S11 area

Both my DS's go to High Storrs, ^^ see there's a reason Sheffield is known as a village! it's a great secondary with specialism in drama & Maths. There are many good ones, Tapton, King Edwards,Silverdale (think Silverdale has a more of S7 catchment) S7 is more suburban.

Property wise you may find yourself with the Sheffield dilemma of: 3 bed semi with smaller rooms but advantage of a garage and largish garden vs
Victorian semi with huge rooms but no garage and a smaller garden.

I like living round here, s11 is a real mix of families/students (but not so many anymore due to new student accomodation)/proffesional couples. It has a nice vibe and good local shops. Easy access to Parks/ bars and restaurants and a 10 minute drive to the countryside.

Lots of great sporting facilities in Sheffield too for the the DC's and you if you're so inclined!

PM me if you want any other info.

Ex S11er *Endcliffe Park and Ringinglow Village) and Hope Valley-er here. AM's various posts sum up Sheffield and it's environs very well.

I was lucky enough to work to the south of the city centre (Nether Edge) so we lived in Hope and I got to work in under 30 mins. That drive over North Lees is beautiful. We are not too far away now and visit often. It breaks my heart that that used to be my commute....

If you've got kids, I would definitely definitely go for one of the western suburbs rather than somewhere inbetween Sheffield and Chesterfield. They will thank you for the better transport links and better pubs and social life when they are older.

My dad went to High Storrs in the 1950s

My grandparents lived in Dore in a two bed bungalow with a huge garden. looking on Google earth it's been demolished and turned into a big house. Which makes sense, but still makes me I spent a lot of my school holidays in that house.

My DDad went to King Edward's and my uncle to high stores when they were boys grammars.

Jarvis Cocker went to King Edward's.
Random Sheffield fact.

And my FiL used to play football in Endcliffe Park with Michael Palin.

You could also look at North Sheffield, Penistone has a good grammar school, it's rural and has good train links to Sheffield.

Can I ask what is wrong with Stannington?
I don't live there but just wondered.
Second the areas of S10, S11, S6, S7 look at the TDF map, some postcodes have massively nice areas but some dumpy bits as well.
A few areas market themselves as adjacent areas so watch out for that.
Congratulations on you DH promoti

on. Sheffield has some lovely areas.