 Sugworth Hall the depression, although it is Points of Interest also said it was to enable him Originally built in the 1600s, to see his wife’s grave in the  Mortimer Road  Hallfield House the hall was considerably churchyard at . extended by Charles Boot The road was constructed This fine, grade 2 listed building Now in a poor state of repair, in the 20th century. Charles Ughill in 1777 as a turnpike road by was built by the Greaves family the tower originally had a wood was the son of Henry Boot, Hans Winthrop Mortimer, Lord in the late 1600s. In the 19th panelled interior and a staircase who founded the well-known of the Manor of Bamford. It century it was owned by the to the upper floors. building company. In followed an ancient packhorse Fitzwilliam Wentworth estate  route, known as Halifax Gate, and used as a shooting lodge. It the 1930s the company built Strines reservoir Moor which ran between North is now a private house. the Pinewood Film Studios. The Constructed in 1871, this is Derbyshire and the West Riding name ‘Sugworth’ derives from  Dale Dyke Reservoir the smallest of the reservoirs of . Mortimer wished the Anglo-Saxon words ‘sugga’ in . The name to link Grindleford with the In 1864, the newly-built dam meaning ‘soggy’ and ‘worth’, ‘Strines’ may derive from the A walk around Dale Dyke market town of Penistone to burst, causing the one of the meaning ‘settlement’. Old English words ‘strynds’ or increase trade and hoped to biggest man-made disasters  Boot’s Tower ‘strinds’, meaning a rivulet or Reservoir and Ughill Moor make a profit from the tolls in British history. The Great stream. There is no public access The tower was built in 1927 by charged to users of the road. Sheffield Flood, as it became to the reservoir. Charles Boot, possibly to provide Length – 8 miles | Time – 4 hours Tollhouses (or ‘turnpikes’) were known, inflicted massive work for his employees during built along the route. However, damage downstream along the road was not profitable and the rivers Loxley and Don he died bankrupt in 1807. Some and through the centre of parts of Mortimer Road were Sheffield. Around 250 people bypassed by new roads, such lost their lives. The dam was as the stretch near Ladybower rebuilt in 1875 on a smaller reservoir which was bypassed scale. Below the dam is a stone by the Sheffield – Glossop road, engraved C.L.O.B. (centre line constructed in 1822 (Smith 1993). old bank), which marks where  the original dam wall would Broggin Farmhouse have stood. A flood memorial The house standing at the north stone was erected in 1991 by end of Strines reservoir pre- Bradfield Historical Society to dates the reservoir. The word commemorate those drowned ‘brogging’ means ‘marshy’. and a memorial also can be seen in St Nicholas’ Church, High Bradfield. References: David Hey (2003) ‘Medieval ’ Landmark Publishing, Ashbourne, Howard Smith, with iIlustrations by Mike Jones (1993)’Mortimer Road – the turnpike that failed’, West Bar Printing Services, Sheffield; Malcolm Nunn ‘Around Bradfield, Loxley and ’ First published 1996, reprinted 2003, Tempus Publishing, Stroud. Acknowledgements: Research, photographs and proofing by Rural Research.Route by Terrier Designs. Historical photographs supplied by and copyright of Malcolm Nunn, Archivist, Bradfield Parish Council. Designed and printed by Oakleaf Graphics Ltd. Produced for Bradfield Parish Council by CMP Consultancy. Funded by East Peak Innovation Partnership LEADER Programme and Peak District National Park Authority Sustainable Development Fund. For more information on walks in Bradfield visitwww.bradfield-walkers.org.uk Copyright Bradfield Parish Council Bradfield Parish Council Supported by the Sustainable Development Fund Walks and Trails opens out by the eastern end as walkers have tried to find of the dam wall. This is the new firmer ground.  Ughill Moor dam which was built in 1875 . On reaching Sugworth Road Follow the bank of the reservoir turn right and follow the road for a quarter of a mile. Take the until you reach the entrance to A walk around Dale Dyke footpath over the stile into the the driveway to Sugworth Hall Reservoir and Ughill Moor Bradfield woods (SK 24220 91338). . The footpath enters the 4 Follow this path up until it drive through a stile on the left oir Dale 3 Hallfield v meets the track which runs hand side of the ornamental gates. House eser parallel to the reservoir. Turn e R right onto the track. Go down the drive for about The track emerges out of the 100m. The footpath forks off to woods into a field, then goes up the right and goes above the Start Dale Dik steeply to the left following the house through a rhododendron tunnel, emerging onto open 1 boundary of the woods but is  A combination of farm not initially clear. Keep as close fields with Boots Tower as reasonably possible to the ahead of you. lanes around Dale Dyke wall at the edge of the woods 2 reservoir followed by a climb and the field. The path becomes onto Ughill Moor, with clearer nearer the top. 7 open views across the Peak Cross over the road (Blindside Strines Lane), and over the stile Reservoir District National Park. Well opposite. defined paths and tracks, Continue to Hoar Stones Road. Boot’s even across Ughill Moor. The path continues on the Tower The descent back to the other side of the road, slightly offset to the right (the OS map 6 Strines dam is steep and can shows woodland to the left oad be boggy in wet weather. of the path, but at the time of writing this had been cleared). The path keeps about 100m to Details th R Continue along the path to Wet Grade - A short section on roads, then farm the right of the tower. As you Route Instructions Shaw Lane. tracks and well-defined paths. Boggy in draw level with the tower the places. Steady ascent of 700 ft over 2.5 miles. 5 From the car park diverts to the right around the Turn right onto the road. After path swings right and heads Sugwor turn left and head Start - Car park on Mortimer Road, near property to rejoin the farm about 100m Stake Hill Road, an in a north-easterly direction over the bridge and footpath to Foulstone Delf, 300m north of the track on the north side. old track, heads off on the left towards the spillway from the then up Mortimer Strines Inn. Continue along the track to across Ughill Moor. Follow this reservoir. The path is not clear Road (See Points of the farm buildings. The public track for one and a half miles so look out for the marker posts Parking – As above. If the car park is closed Interest ). The road footpath forks off to the left to Moscar. There are excellent and descend steeply down to for forestry work, turn back towards Bradfield swings round to the  and comes out on Dale Road. views over Strines and Dale the dam . This part of the and park on the verge by the path down to left. 100m after the Continue along the road in the Dyke. As the path starts to drop path can be very boggy in wet Strines Reservoir. SK 22700 90863 road straightens, take same north-easterly direction. down it swings round to the weather. Public transport - none close to the start the farm track off to right and joins another track point. The nearest bus stop is in . The road drops down past a few At the bottom of the hill follow the right. coming in from the east. Go up Fair House Lane, Dale Road and pick buildings. the path into the field and go Follow the track down up the route at the entrance to Dale Dyke About 200m after the houses About 200m before reaching left to the stile in the high wall. past the Broggin farm Reservoir. the road swings round to the the farm buildings at Moscar Cross the stile and turn left. house . At the farm house Refreshments – none on route. Nearest are right. There is a well marked there is a footpath over a The path splits as it approaches take the track which forks off to The Strines Inn, Mortimer Road; The Post Card gateway into the Yorkshire stile off to the right (SK23500 the stream. Take the left fork the left. This track goes above Café, Plough Inn, Low Bradfield; Old Horns Inn, Moscar Water Dale Dyke Reservoir site. 88478). The path follows the and cross over the wooden the western side of Dale Dyke High Bradfield. Follow the path as it winds its field boundary in a straight line bridge. Climb back up the bank reservoir. all the way to Sugworth Road. towards the farm buildings. Public Toilets – None on route – nearest in way down to the stream. Follow the track past a farm Keep the wall to your left. This Low Bradfield. Cross the bridge and follow Retrace your steps past the and along to the large house section can be a bit boggy so Grid Reference - SK22100 90923 the path up the steps past the farm to Mortimer Road and at Hallfield . The footpath the path tends to weave around reservoir outfall pipes. The path turn left to the car park.