The Map Print
Sheffield, drawn from its own streets.
A city built where five rivers meet, with the streets bending to the valleys rather than the other way round.
From £19.95 unframed, £59.95 framed · Needs: a place. No data.
The frame 8 km across at the default · The water the Don · Where England, the United Kingdom · Position 53.3807° N · 1.4702° W
Sheffield on paper
The Don comes in from the west and leaves to the north-east, and the Sheaf, the Porter, the Rivelin and the Loxley feed into it inside the frame. On a print those confluences are the structure of everything: the industrial east follows the Don's flat valley in long straight works and yards, while the western suburbs climb the side valleys in streets that curve because the ground made them curve. You can read the gradient from the street pattern alone, even though the print draws no height at all.
The centre sits on the ridge between the Don and the Sheaf, compact and slightly tangled, wrapped by a ring road that is one of the strongest single lines on the sheet. North of it, Kelham Island is an actual island — a goit cut from the river to drive the wheels, with the works packed between the two channels, and it prints as one of the most legible small pieces of industrial geography in Britain.
Green does a lot of work in a Sheffield frame. The parks and the wooded valleys run in fingers from the west almost to the middle of the city, so the print has soft edges pushing in from one side against the hard grid of the east. At eight kilometres across the frame holds the centre, the Don valley works, the ring, and the start of the climb towards the moors; widen it to eighteen and the moorland edges arrive, which makes a quieter and very different print.
What to frame
Each of these opens the Studio already framed on it. Move the frame, change how wide it reaches, and choose how the streets are drawn.
The city
8 km acrossthe confluences, the ring road, the works along the Don and the valleys climbing west.
Kelham Island
1.6 km acrossthe goit, the island between the channels, the works and the weirs.
Nether Edge
3.2 km acrossthe villas and terraces, the parks either side and the Porter valley below.
Crookes
3.2 km acrossthe ridge streets in their long straight runs, with the valleys falling away on both sides.
Hillsborough
3.2 km acrossthe ground in its own streets, the Loxley and the Don meeting beside it.
Crookes to Kelham Island
both ends nameddown the hill into the city, both ends named where they sit.
A postcode
S6 or S11 in the Studio frames that patch alone.
How it works
From the Studio to your wall in three steps.
Step 01
Choose your subject
Connect Strava in one tap for a race, a ride or a whole year. Or search for a place, type a postcode for your street on the old Ordnance Survey, or add a photograph — none of those needs an account.
Step 02
Choose your style
Start from a finished design and make it yours: the words, the colours, the size. Twenty-three styles for your own miles, four treatments for a place, six layouts for a photograph, and the old survey as drawn or in your colours.
Step 03
We print and frame it
Pick a frame, check out, and it is printed to order on fine-art paper, framed by hand and posted to you, tracked.
Sheffield map print: the questions
Does the print show the hills?
Not directly — it draws streets, water and parks, flat. What it does show is the evidence: the contour-following crescents in the west, the straight grids on the flats, and the valleys where the streets simply stop.
Can I include the Peak District?
Frame about twenty kilometres across and the moorland edge comes in on the western side, with the reservoirs. The city's own streets become texture at that width, so it works best as a print of the edge rather than of Sheffield.
Which frame for one suburb?
Two to three kilometres. At that width a Sheffield suburb shows its own street names' worth of detail, with a park or a river along one edge to anchor it.
Where does the map come from?
OpenStreetMap, through OpenFreeMap’s vector tiles — the same data the race prints draw. Nothing is invented: if a street is missing it is missing from the map, and anyone can add it at openstreetmap.org.
Can I print somewhere near Sheffield instead?
Yes — anywhere on earth. Search the Studio for a town, a village or a postcode and the frame arrives at the size that place wants; the slider and the drag take it from there.
- Made to orderPrinted for you, never from stock
- Fine-art paperArchival inks, framed by hand
- Tracked deliveryUK delivery £7.85, tracked · worldwide, priced at checkout
- Arrives damaged?We replace it, no quibble
Your Sheffield, on the wall.
Compose it free in the Studio. Order it when it holds the streets you mean.
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