Mosborough ward is one of the 28 electoral wards in City of Sheffield, England. It is located in the eastern part of the city, on the border with Rotherham. It covers an area of 8.9 square kilometres and includes the districts of Mosborough village, Waterthorpe, Westfield and Halfway. The population of this ward in 2001 was 16,300 people in 7,000 households. In the 2004 local elections David Charles Barker, Andrew Michael Peat, and Samuel Kenneth Wall, all Labour Party candidates were returned as councilors for the ward. Mosborough ward also included the Crystal Peaks shopping centre.

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1 Districts of Mosborough ward 1.1 Halfway 1.2 Holbrook 1.3 Mosborough 1.4 Waterthorpe 1.5 Westfield

Districts of Mosborough ward

Halfway

Halfway () lies in the extreme south east of Sheffield, at the end of a Sheffield Supertram line. It is also home to a bus garage and as such it is common to see public transport in Sheffield apparently heading "Halfway".

Holbrook

Grid reference: SK442818

Mosborough

Mosborough (Grid reference: SK426813) is now a suburb of Sheffield but was a village in Derbyshire until the 1970s. It was known for sickle making and was also a coal mining area. Notable buildings include the fifteenth century Mosborough Hall and a fifteenth century house which may retain some Anglo-Saxon structure.

Waterthorpe

Grid reference: SK430927

Westfield

Grid reference: SK433817