page_title: Porter Brook
section_title: Matilda Street Pocket Park
hierarchical_section_title: Porter Brook / Matilda Street Pocket Park
caption_attribution_description: English: Before Pocket Park on Porter Brook was added.
context_page_description: The Porter Brook is a river in the City of Sheffield, England
  descending over 1,000 feet from its source among the sedge grass on Burbage moor behind a small farm on Hangram just inside the Peak District National Park in the west of the city at Clough Hollow, near the village of Ringinglow. Porter Brook derives its name from its brownish colour, similar to the colour of Porter, a brownish discolouration obtained as it passes over iron-ore deposits on its course from the source. Close to the source, at the junction of Fulwood Lane and Greenhouse Lane is a Rotary Club funded toposcope, Finder Cairn.
  From here it flows eastward through Porter Clough through Mayfield Valley to the first of the remaining mill dams. Beyond Forge Dam, where the Porter is defined as a main river, the brook makes its way through Endcliffe Park to Hunter's Bar, before running between Ecclesall Road and Sheffield General Cemetery, past the former Wards brewery. The section of the river from Renton Street, near to the location of Sharrow Forge, is now built over running through culverts beneath the intersection of London Road and Eyre Street.
context_section_description: The Matilda Street Pocket Park was one of Sheffield's first examples of natural flood management in an urban environment. The newly created pocket park provides both a public park and extra space for the previously narrow river to hold back and slow flood water. 
  The new park was a joint effort between Don Catchment Rivers Trust, South Yorkshire Forest, the Environment Agency, Wild Trout Trust and Sheffield City Council.
  The project was announced as the Winner in the ‘Contribution to the Built Environment’ category at the 2016 Living Waterways Awards ceremony, held at Birmingham Town Hall last night (14 September 2016)
  Funding came from the Councils City Centre Breathing Spaces programme and the Environment Agency Local Levy.
caption: The Porter Brook before the Pocket Park
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