In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Hallamshire like this:
HALLAMSHIRE, an ancient lordship on the S border of W. R. Yorkshire. It is sometimes said to have been nearly or quite conterminate with the parishes of Sheffield and Ecclesfield; but it really cannot now be defined, and perhaps was mainly identical with Nether Hallam. It figured at Domesday as Hallam, and belonged then to Earl Waltheof. ...
The name Hallam is peculiar; looks to have had a Frisian origin; and probably was derived from the great tribe of the Halling or Halsing. The lordship belonged to the Waltheof family for a considerable time before the Norman conquest; passed to a female heiress of that family in 1075; passed afterwards to the Earls of Northampton; had a seneschal in the time of Edward I.; and partly belongs now to the Duke of Norfolk.
Hallamshire through time
Hallamshire is now part of Sheffield district. Click here for graphs and data of how Sheffield has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Hallamshire itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Hallamshire, in Sheffield and West Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/20143
Date accessed: 26th April 2024
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