Castle Hill Park
The official name of the Castle site park was revealed yesterday as part of the Castlegate Festival and we can now confirm this will be ‘Castle Hill Park’ reflecting the historic name of the site stretching back to just after the demolition of the Castle in the late 17th century. A number of other options […]
In the news….
In the Sheffield Star recently, a couple of articles on the completion date of the Castle park, photographs of the pages are attached. As we have reported previously, there is still considerable work required to complete the works, and the Council is understandably now reluctant to publicise a date for opening. As the article says, […]
Castlegate Festival – Tours – New site hoardings
The 10th Castlegate Festival is set to take place 12 – 20 September. The Festival is a celebration of heritage as well as the rich arts, music and market scene in Castlegate, Sheffield’s oldest quarter. Find all the details here…  https://www.welcometosheffield.co.uk/content/events/castlegate-festival-2026/ Friends of Sheffield Castle & our friends from Wessex Archaeology will be doing limited […]
Castlegate Newsletter – May 2026
Latest update from the Council on progress with the Castle site and other updates from Castlegate stakeholders Click on the link here….  https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/UKSHEFFIELD/bulletins/41880dd
Amazing drone footage of Castle Well!!
We are excited to bring you drone footage of inside the medieval Castle well which shows some incredible detail of the construction and quality of the stonework. In particular you can clearly see where the bedrock stops and the stonework begins and the confirmed depth. As the article mentions, we expect to have a 3D […]
AGM 2026
We are pleased to invite you to our Annual General Meeting 2026 which will be held on Thursday 23rd April,  6pm for 6:30pm start at the Old Queens Head on Pond Hill, Sheffield. The official notice of the meeting is attached below with further information. As places will be limited, please can you let us […]
Castle Site progress
The Council have recently issued an update on the progress on the Castle site through their regular Newsletter which we have also contributed too. It is worth pointing out that whilst it says the Council are working with FoSC, this is not day to day and only on a consultative basis. We continue to fight […]
Marie Gilman
Some sad news…. our old colleague Marie Gilman has sadly passed away on 18th Feb. Marie was an original member of FoSC, Secretary for several years and always fronted up any event which we held, which, in the early days were numerous. Marie was involved with several local heritage groups, so we’re sure that many […]
Sheffield Heritage Fair 2026
We will again be attending the Heritage Fair at the Millennium Galleries, within the Winter Gardens, Tudor Square on both published days. We are expecting to have the 3D model of the Castle available to see and there will be members of FoSC committee there to talk about the current plans for the Castle site […]
Picture of the Castle Well
We’d like to share the attached fantastic picture of the well on the Castle site, taken last week, clearly showing the layers of stonework estimated to be 12m in depth. The well was found early on in the excavations last spring, and we hope this will be shown in the design of the park for […]