It is encircled by the Inner Ring Road, a circular route started in the late 1960s and now completed in 2008.

Highfield (grid reference SK351857) is the area immediately south of the city centre, between Sharrow to the west and Queens Road to the east.

It includes Bramall Lane football stadium, home of Sheffield United F.C.

Green Lane and Alma Street form the main spine roads of the area.

The Quarter housed one of Sheffield's last traditional hand-made scissor makers, Ernest Wright and Son Limited, until their relocation to premises closer to the city centre in 2011.