Wisewood Cemetery

Prior to the 1920s, the Wisewood area was a rural location of mostly farmers' fields. There were scattered small cottages and farm buildings with the population employed as farm labourers, quarrymen, steelworkers, ganister miners or in the manufacturing of pocketknifes. Wisewood was transformed in the late 1920s when Sheffield City Council made the decision in 1928 to build a large housing estate there. At a council meeting on 4 April 1928 a compulsory purchase order was issued to purchase just over 80 acre of land for the building of the new council estate. Most of the land belonged to Tingle's Farm and Flander's Farm, now both demolished. The land was bounded by Ben Lane to the north,…