About Sheffield Round Walk

Many of the areas of land on the Round Walk were gifted to the City Council by J G Graves and the J G Graves Charitable Trust.

John George Graves was a Sheffield entrepreneur who pioneered one of the first mail order businesses in England and became Lord Mayor of Sheffield in 1926.  He was given freedom of the city in 1929.

The picture shows a stone from the Round Walk which reads; "This stone records that the portion of the round walk from here through Porter Clough and Ringinglow to Ryecroft Glen some four miles in extent was a gift to the city by the J G Graves Trust - 1938".