Editing Sheffield (section)

==Etymology==
The name ''Sheffield'', has its origins in [[Old English]] and derives from the name of a principal river in the city, the [[River Sheaf]],  which runs through Sheffield albeit in [[culvert]]s underneath the city centre.<ref>{{cite web |date=6 March 2019 |title=Subterranean city: Vast 'cathedral' in the Sheffield no-one knows |url=https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/arts-and-culture/film-and-tv/subterranean-city-vast-cathedral-in-the-sheffield-no-one-knows-88917 |access-date=2 February 2025 |website=Yorkshire Post }}</ref> This name, in turn, is a corruption of ''shed'' or ''sheth'', which refers to a ''divide'' or ''separation''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Goodall |first=Armitage&nbsp;C. |title=Place-Names of South-West Yorkshire; that is, of so much of the West Riding as lies south of the Aire from Keighley onwards |year=1913 |location=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924028042962 |pages=253–254}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Addy |first=Sidney Oldall |author-link=Sidney Oldall Addy |title=A Glossary of Words Used in the Neighbourhood of Sheffield. Including a Selection of Local Names, and Some Notices of Folk-Lore, Games, and Customs |year=1888 |publisher=Trubner & Co. for the English Dialect Society |location=London |url=https://archive.org/details/glossaryofwordsu00addyuoft |pages=xxviii–xxxiv}}</ref> The second half of the name Sheffield refers to a field, or forest clearing.<ref>{{Harvnb|Goodall|1913|p=138}}</ref> Combining the two words, it is believed that the name refers to an [[Anglo-Saxon]] settlement in a clearing by the confluence of the [[River Don, Yorkshire|River Don]] and River Sheaf.<ref name=VICKERS1>{{Harvnb|Vickers|1999|loc=part 1}}</ref> In historical [[Latin]], Sheffield is recorded with the [[Latinisation of names|Latinized]] name ''Sefelda''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Stenton |first=Frank Merry |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bYTRAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22sefelda%22+sheffield&pg=PA50 |title=The Place-names of Berkshire: An Essay |date=1911 |publisher=University College }}</ref>