the a61 travels into sheffield through grenoside and hillsborough, passing next to the sheffield wednesday football stadium. at this point it forms a major artery into the city centre from the north, before becoming the sheffield inner ring road (which as of 2007 is labelled as a61 all the way around). it meets the a57 twice; at park square and brookhill roundabout. the a61 takes a southerly course past sheffield united football stadium through heeley as chesterfield road and climbs up to norton and greenhill roundabout. between sheffield and chesterfield is a dual carriageway, avoids dronfield as the eponymous by-pass. the road used to go through chesterfield town centre, passing by the famous crooked spire, but was heavily congested. this was alleviated by the construction of the chesterfield bypass in the 1980s on the alignment of the former great central railway. the road reverts to single carriageway south of chesterfield, passing through clay cross and alfreton.