Shepherd Wheel

Shepherd Wheel Workshop

Location within Sheffield
Location	Whiteley Woods, Sheffield, England
Coordinates	53°21′52″N 1°31′28″W / 53.3645°N 1.5245°W / 53.3645; -1.5245
Type	Industrial museum
Owner	Sheffield Museums Trust
Website	www.sheffieldmuseums.org.uk/visit-us/shepherd-wheel-workshop/

Shepherd Wheel is a working museum in a former water-powered grinding workshop situated on the Porter Brook in the south-west of the City of Sheffield, England. One of the earliest wheels on the River Porter, it is one of the few remaining—and effectively complete—examples of this kind of enterprise, one that used to be commonplace in the Sheffield area. Its 5.5 m (18 ft) diameter overshot water wheel is powered from a large dam stocked with water diverted from the Porter Brook. The workshops, dam, goit and weir are Grade II listed,^[1] and the site is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.