Firth Park ward—which includes the districts of Firth Park, Longley, Parson Cross and parts of Wincobank—is one of the 28 electoral wards in City of Sheffield, England located in the northern part of the city and covering an area of 1.66 square miles (4.3 km2). The population of this ward in 2011 was 21,141 people in 8,602 households.
Firth Park is one of the three and a bit wards that make up the current Sheffield Brightside Parliamentary constituency. In the final recommendations of the Boundary Commission for England Firth Park ward is one of the five wards to make up the new Sheffield Hillsborough and Brightside Parliamentary constituency.
Firth Park (grid reference SK368913) is a district of Sheffield surrounding the local park, also named Firth Park, given to the city by Mark Firth in 1875 and was opened by the Prince of Wales, HRH Prince Albert Edward, later Edward VII. Mark Firth was the pioneer of a number of Sheffield Steelworks including the well known company of the era 'Firth Brown'. He was reported as to wanting to create an environment with quality housing, leisure and greenery for his workers and their families. The concept has been likened to that of the Bournville project near Birmingham.
Firth Park is a public park in the Firth Park area of the City of Sheffield in England. It is located 3.75 km (2.33 miles) north-northeast of the city centre. The main entrance to the park is on Hucklow Road although there are several entrances on Firth Park Road to the east and one on Vivian Road to the south. Established in 1875, the park gave its name to the Sheffield suburb of Firth Park, a social housing estate constructed around the area of the park in the 1920s and 30s.
The 36 acre park was a gift from the Sheffield industrialist Mark Firth, the land had originally been part of the grounds of Page Hall (now Abbey Grange Nursing Home) which Firth had bought in 1873. The park was opened on 16 April 1875 by Albert Edward the then Prince Of Wales and Princess Alexander. The Royal couple were the guests of Firth staying at his mansion Oakbrook in the city. The weekly newspaper The Graphic reported that the Royal visitors arrived at Firth Park in a procession of forty carriages from Victoria station with the band of the Hallamshire Volunteer Rifle Corps playing the “Firth Park March”. The royal couple were seated in a temporary pavilion designed to look like a Turkish minaret and 15,000 school children were assembled in front to sing the national anthem. At the time of the royal opening much of the park was still unfinished and Firth spent an additional £9,000 before a second ceremony was performed on 22 August 1876 to mark the completion.