villages around sheffield will be expensive – or they were when i looked…
i’ve found a compromise – crookes.
i’m a 30min walk from the city centre, but at the end of my road there’s fields, horses, woodland, rivers, and easy access to loads of peachy singletrack.
depending on whether i turn left or right out of my ginnel, i either live in a village in the hills, or a city with buses, and theatres, and convenient shopping etc.
walkley, hillsborough, crosspool, stannington, nether edge, ranmoor, fulwood, bannercross, etc, all offer a similar experience.
anywhere in the west of the city will give you easy access to greenery and great riding. hillsborough would give you a good head start towards leeds, if that’s where you’ll be working.
why not live in leeds? – s’nice*, and some very good riding to be had.
(*obviously not as nice as sheffield)