Sheffield Hookups: Sheffield Women Want to Meet

Sex in Sheffield, among the hills, rivers and trees

Five rivers meet in Sheffield: the Don, the Sheaf, the Rivelin, the Loxley and the Porter. Add more than 250 parks, woods and gardens and something like four and a half million trees, and that's a lot of green for a city better known for cutlery and steel.

The steel came first, though. Sheffield helped drive the Industrial Revolution, and when new ways of making crucible and stainless steel came along, its cutlery trade boomed and the population grew almost tenfold in the 19th century. After steel declined and coal mining collapsed in the 1970s and 1980s, the city rebuilt, and today it's the second largest city in Yorkshire, with about 580,000 people across the borough, two universities and a centre remade around Millennium Square and St Paul's Place.

If it's sex in Sheffield you're after, with no strings, the city's size works in your favour. It sits in the eastern foothills of the Pennines, with the Peak District National Park to the west and Rotherham right up against it, so there's a lot of ground, and a lot of people, to find someone among.

Rotherham, Dronfield and Chesterfield are all in range

Sheffield runs straight into Rotherham, separated for much of the way only by the M1, and the two centres are under six miles apart. Dronfield, in Derbyshire, is the same distance away, Chesterfield and Staveley are about nine and a half, and Barnsley is under twelve miles to the north.

The Derbyshire border is closer than it sounds. Totley, Dore and the Mosborough townships were Derbyshire villages until the city took them in during the first half of the 20th century, so someone who says they're from the Derbyshire side may live nearer than you'd think. Further out, Leeds is 29 miles north and Manchester 32 to the west.