Wisewood

It is a residential suburb consisting almost exclusively of council housing, some of which has been bought by tenants under the right to buy scheme.

The original location of Wisewood was in the Loxley valley just before the river reached Malin Bridge and it is still shown as such on the 1:25,000 scale Ordnance Survey map.

However, the name was adopted for a new housing estate built in the early 1930s higher up the hillside and overlooking the valley.

Wisewood was transformed in the late 1920s when Sheffield City Council made the decision in 1928 to build a large housing estate there.

[3][4] In 1930, a row of shops was constructed across the road from the schools on the site of a drained pond; these still serve the estate today and include a post office, grocers, etc.

[8] One of the largest structures in Wisewood, which often goes unnoticed, is a reinforced concrete covered reservoir just off Ben Lane,[9] it holds 4 million gallons of water and measures 75 by 60 yards (69 by 55 m).