A complete 18th-century industrial site preserved as a museum, on the southern edge of the city beside the River Sheaf. The works produced agricultural scythes and other edged tools from the 1750s to 1930, powered by water from the river driving the great hammer, the rolling mill, and the grinding wheels. The buildings, workers' cottages, manager's house, and the school were all part of one self-contained community.
The site is run by Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust and opens on weekends and selected days; during living-history events the great water-powered tilt hammer is set in motion. Combine with Shepherd Wheel, a smaller water-powered grinding workshop a few miles upstream. Sheffield's industrial archaeology at its most evocative.