Manor is a large low-rise housing estate in eastern Sheffield, England. It is divided into Manor Park, Upper and Lower Manor, and Manor Top.
Prior to the 1930s, the area was mostly rural, with housing only along the main roads. In the Victorian period, Sheffield’s main depository for human waste lay in the Manor area.
The estate was begun in the 1930s as a garden city type development, to alleviate overcrowding in central Sheffield. Unlike true garden cities, places of work were not included in the scheme.
Manor is named for Sheffield Manor, which is adjacent to Manor Park. Manor Top is now served by the Sheffield Supertram. Large areas of the estate were demolished, and in some cases rebuilt with private funding, from the late 1990s on.
Sheffield, from sheaf field, the most populous town in the county, except Leeds, is situated upon an eminence at the confluence of the rivers Sheaf and Don, over each of which is a stone bridge.
From the Furnivals, the Manor and Castle passed to the Nevils, afterwards to the Talbots, Earls of Shrewsbury, and lastly, to the Illustrious family of the Howards.
The introduction of this new branch of trade, gave to Sheffield a share in the manufacture of silver plate; and for the encouragement of this manufacture, an assay office was established, and opened in the town in 1731.
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