Sports ground sited on former common field, shown as enclosed piecemeal by 1851. See HSY 1170 &1173 for more details on the former St Michael's Fields in Ecclesfield. Sports ground extends to the west) Fragmentary legibility of earlier landscape due to the levelling on creation of modern playing fields. N.B.. Sheffield is the biggest centre for civil service departments outside London with many government departments represented in the city centre.