{"content":[{"text":"Through most of its length is the delightfully meandering Totley Brook. Lower, \n beyond the wood, this joins with the Old Hay Brook to form the River Sheaf - from \n which the city of Sheffield takes its name. These two brooks and the Sheaf were \n important in early industrial history of Sheffield and Derbyshire as they were dammed \n for water mills – producing lead, cutlery, scythes, paper and corn. The Totley Brook \n now forms a boundary between Sheffield and Derbyshire. From at least medieval \n times it was also a manorial boundary with Holmesfield – which is still in Derbyshire. \n Like the brook, the wood too was important in early industrial history producing \n white coal and charcoal for the smelting of lead, and later wood for pit props and for \n chemical bi-products involved in glass making. It was also coppiced for agricultural \n products such as fencing, hedge-laying and for other crafts and industries such as \n besom broom making and tanning. It was almost clear felled during the Second World \n War, possibly to contribute towards the war effort. Much information about the past \n ownership, management and uses of the wood have been uncovered through our \n archaeological surveys and by our archival research.","bbox":{"left":0.151388,"top":0.086076,"width":0.6966690000000001,"height":0.24526900000000001}},{"text":"The wood has one main footpath along its length and is crossed by three other main \n footpaths – to the immediate North leading to old Totley village and the seventeenth \n century Totley Hall; to the south to the tiny settlements of Woodthorpe and its \n seventeenth century Hall, to the sixteenth century Fanshawe Gate Hall and to the \n ancient farmstead of Storth House.","bbox":{"left":0.151388,"top":0.348628,"width":0.6801400000000001,"height":0.08135199999999998}},{"text":"Though since the mid twentieth century the wood has mainly been used recreationally \n - by walkers, picnickers, dog owners and bird spotters – its older story is intimately \n connected with old Totley Village. Here were yeoman and peasant farmers, \n labourers, charcoal and whitecoal burners, woodsmen, craftspeople and smelters who \n used and managed it for sustainable wood and timber. Here were trespassers who \n stole holly for fodder, oak branches for the fire. Often more distant were the nobility \n and industrialists who owned it and made their money exploiting its resources and \n labour for agriculture and industry – particularly the metal industries of Sheffield and \n Derbyshire. The wood and its immediate landscape harbours many ghosts of the","bbox":{"left":0.151388,"top":0.761129,"width":0.69425,"height":0.1469180000000001}},{"text":"2","bbox":{"left":0.838381,"top":0.942435,"width":0.010078999999999949,"height":0.01578500000000005}}],"images_bbox":[{"left":0.151388,"top":0.446852,"width":0.697072,"height":0.297331}],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[{"left":0.151388,"top":0.446852,"width":0.697072,"height":0.297331}]}