Barnsley-Boundary-Walk-7-8
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
BARNSLEY BOUNDARY WALK Waymarked Walk No. 7 5 Cross Stead Lane and continue on to meet the A6135 2 From Forge Lane, adjacent the Heritage Centre’s Sheffield Road opposite Parkside. Here turn right along main car park, turn left into Wentworth Road and St.Peter’s Church, Tankersley The Barnsley Boundary Walk is made up of twelve short ELSECAR to the road then left on the path to Bell Ground Wood. immediately right to join the footpath that takes you walks joined to form a continuous route some 73 miles B TANKERSLEY through Elsecar Park. Tankersley Bell Ground has seen much mining (117 km) in length, mainly through the Metropolitan 6 After 700 yds you will reach Skiers Hall which has activity through the years. You can still see where the Borough of Barnsley, but also in parts of Kirklees, existed from at least the 13th Century until it was Wakefield, Doncaster, and Sheffield. bell pits were by the hollows and mounds on the Starting Point Wood and Charcoal, Iron and Coal ... demolished in 1951. The hamlet still carries its name. ground. Cross through the wood to join Black Lane. Trans Pennine trail You can join the route at any point and enjoy one or Elsecar Heritage Centre. Tankersley was an early centre of iron production Continue westwards along the path towards Distance exploiting local ore often won from bell pits. 7 Tankersley Old Hall dates back to the 16th Century Alderthwaite Farm. more sections to suit your time and energies, and travel 3 miles (4.8 km). arrangements. The early furnaces were fired using charcoal and the but was already a ruin by 1750. In the 1969 movie ‘Kes’, Time link between woodland and industry was forged. 3 After Alderthwaite Farm, carefully cross Broadcarr Allow yourself up to two based on the book by local novelist Barry Hines, Billy This leaflet is one of a series of six designed not only to Coppice management of the local woodlands Road and cross over the railway bridge over the Leeds to hours for exploring at a secured the necessary supply of charcoal. This Casper finds a Kestrel’s nest in the ruins. The site is in show you the route but also to point out and explain leisurely pace. Sheffield line. Follow the path north for 50 yds then continuing need secured the presence of areas of private ownership. many of the interesting facts and features to be Footwear ancient woodland such as Skiers Spring in the turn left into Skiers Spring Wood. Some sections can have wet, landscape. In addition when ironstone mining muddy or uneven ground. Beyond Old Hall Farm follow the track under the M1 discovered along this very popular walking way. ceased the pocked ground was unsuitable for HOYLAND Choose appropriate footwear. Motorway and north towards St.Peter’s Church at ELSECAR The walk roughly follows the boundary of the agricultural use and often reverted to woodland as Waymarks happened at Bell Ground Wood. Tankersley. HOYLAND COMMON The route is waymarked with T Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley through a great imberland Trail a distinctive B circled with The use of coal as a successor to charcoal meant Elsecar Canal variety of landscapes from the moorland of Dunford, arrows. coppice management was abandoned and generally M1 Water Vole TANKERSLEY Jct 36 PH the wooded environs of Wharncliffe, the historic parks at How to get there mineral exploitation intensified. The ‘revolutionary’ The villages around the route industrial processes became centred on Elsecar A6135 Cannon Hall, Bretton and Wortley, and the wetlands of are served by bus services and where the Earls Fitzwilliam of Wentworth Potter Holes Newcomen Engine the Lower Dearne. Landscapes rich in social, economic some railway stations. Nearby Woodhouse developed their mining and engineering PH bus stops are shown. enterprises. Plantation Sheffield Road P 1 Elsecar Heritage and natural history. You can make your own travel arrangements using the South Glebe Farm 2 P Centre As you enjoy the Boundary Walk please respect the Yorkshire Travel Line; Springwood Tel: (01709) 515151. M1 Motorway 5 interests of those who live and work in the countryside. Farm Elsecar If you do use a car please use 3 Skiers Hall the car parks where these Elsecar Heritage Centre Park Further Information exist, and be considerate of Alderthwaite Elsecar others when parking Wentworth Industrial Twelve Lands 8 4 If you have any comments on the Boundary Walk, encounter any elsewhere. Farm Park Plantation Skiers Spring Reservoir difficulties en route, or would like information on other walks and rides Additional Information Burying Lane in Barnsley, including the Trans Pennine Trail, please contact: Barnsley Elsecar was a coal and ironstone mining community The route is covered by OS Tankersley Black Lane Parkside Wood 1 Metropolitan Borough Council, Environmental Services, Public Rights Explorer Maps No’s:- PH Bull developed in the 1700 and 1800s by the Earls of Way, PO Box 601, Barnsley, S70 9FA. Tel: (01226) 772142. OL1 The Peak District, Manor Bell Ground Dark Peak and map 278 Fitzwilliam of nearby Wentworth Woodhouse. E-mail: [email protected]. Wood Sheffield and Barnsley Hotel 6 For details about the Trans Pennine Trail contact The TPT Office c/o A616 (T) A61 The Elsecar Heritage Centre is situated on the site of the Barnlsey Council, PO Box 597, Barnsley, S70 9EW. Tel: (01226)772574. original Elsecar Colliery Industrial Workshops. There is a Living History Centre, Craft Shops and Tearooms. Tankersley Park 7 To the north of the Heritage Centre is the Elsecar Acknowledgements A616 (T) StocksbridgeGolf BypassCourse Newcomen Beam Engine which is an Ancient A637 M1 A61 T HUDDERSFIELD LEEDS WAKEFIELD rail Produced by: BMBC 2003, 3rd edition 2015 N Old Hall Farm o Chapeltown A628 PONTEFRACT Monument. It is the only one in the world still on its J38 Re-designed by: Mike Gibson Royston West Wood Darton Tankersley Old Hall imberland T original site and was built by John Bargh of Chesterfield Illustrations: © BMBC Grimethorpe T Cudworth Country Park in 1795 at a cost of £167.19s.3¾d. It was used to pump A629 A635 (remains of) HUDDERSFIELD P Printed by: Cawthorne BARNSLEY water out of Elsecar New Colliery which opened in the A616 J37 Hoylandswaine Thurnscoe A635 Dodworth same year. Darfield A1(M) Goldthorpe A61 Wombwell Penistone 8 A church at Tankersley is recorded in the Doomsday You can travel the mile between the station at Elsecar Thurgoland PEAK NATIONAL PARK A633 ROTHERHAM Book of 1086, and the oldest parts of the present A616 Hoyland 0 mile 0.5 Heritage Centre and the Hemingfield Basin on the A628 Wortley J36 church, St.Peter’s, date from the 12th. Century. This is Scale Dearne and Dove Canal by steam train. A629 J35A the end of this section of the Barnsley Boundary walk, 4 Skiers Spring Wood is an Ancient Woodland, a term 0 km 0.8 The station was built for Earl Fitzwilliam in 1870 and Waymarked Walk No. 7 M1 A61 SHEFFIELD but please take a wander around the churchyard which meaning it has been in continuous existence since at was used by the Earl and his guests to travel to the races Based upon Ordnance Survey mapping with the ELSECAR to 0 2.5 miles tells the story of the mining industry in Tankersley. least 1600. After leaving the wood, continue along the Scale permission of HMSO © Crown Copyright. at Doncaster. The Prince of Wales, later Edward VII, was TANKERSLEY 0 4 kms path south of Springwood Farm. BMBC Licence Number 100022264. a frequent visitor. 1 Our walk starts opposite St.Peter’s Church at Black Lane, Tankersley. Waymarked Walks 7 & 8 Waymarked Walk No. 8 7 Carefully cross the road onto the track and bear left 5 Turn left and after 220 yds, right across a meadow A church at Tankersley is recorded in the Domesday after 100 yds to follow field edge paths to Bank Lane, into woodland to meet the A61 Sheffield to Barnsley TANKERSLEY to Book of 1086, and the oldest parts of the present church close to Cundy Houses. road. Carefully cross the busy road, then down a flight WORTLEY ELSECAR to B WHARNCLIFFE of steps and follow the wood edge, then by field paths St.Peter’s, date from the 12th. Century. Wander around B WHARNCLIFFE WOOD 8 Turn left onto the lane then right after 50 yds to Carr House Farm. the churchyard which tells the story of the mining diagonally downhill to Smithy Fold. industry in Tankersley. 6 Turn left and downhill along Bromley Carr Road to A629 Continue onward past the buildings then left and 2 Nearby Glebe Farm takes its name from “glebeland”, Starting Point Onward and Upward ... the village of Howbrook. Cross over Hollin Berry Lane ‘Park and Stride’ car park, immediately right over the stile and across fields Wortley that being farmland owned by the parish for the benefit Tankersley. Beyond Tankersley the landscape of the walk to join Berry Lane. After 60 yds turn right and follow Barnsley Boundary Walk gradually changes as we proceed via Tankersley Park bearing left towards Hazelshaw Farm. A616 (T) Hall of the parson. This moated site is the supposed location Distance the track through farm buildings and by field paths Golf Course and Westwood Country Park, both of the original Tankersley Manor House or Hall. 5.1 miles (8.2 km). transformed from former derelict industrial sites, to 9 Turn right along Tree Lane then after 100 yds half downhill and up by the wood edge to the A629 road. Time the rolling, wooded agricultural land around left and uphill across one and a half field lengths.