Halfway was part of the historic county of Derbyshire but has been administered by Sheffield since boundary changes in 1967.

It used to be home to a bus garage which was operated by Booth and Fisher, a company who were merged into the South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive in the mid-1970s.

It served works and school services and buses starting early from the south side of the city.

The Blue Route Sheffield Supertram terminates at Halfway with a large Park and Ride facility.

The houses themselves were built on high quality farmland and to this day there are farms with orchards nearby.

The layout of the estate was such that no house would look directly onto another, with properties curving around meandering walkways and a complex network of through routes to Halfway Drive.

This main road is the thoroughfare linking the village to both the Derbyshire county boundary and neighbouring estates of Westfield and Waterthorpe.

Despite being a well-planned and high-quality overall project, the estate today suffers in part from crime and has been called, on the Sheffield City Council website, as an area to work actively towards safer communities.

[3] The suburb has many high quality houses, local independent shops and hotel conference facilities.

On August Bank Holiday, the locals do a pub crawl known as the Mosborough 10 for charity often in fancy dress.

It is on the fringes of Sheffield, overlooks Derbyshire and is surrounded to the north by quite densely populated housing and to the south by open countryside.

The surgery was, for a while moved to Owlthorpe then housed in a small green portakabin not far from the original site.

Plumbley is a hamlet in the west of the ward, and is mainly rural, bar a scattering of residences and farms.