SEE feature p9 magazine summer 2010 magazine summer 2010 Northern England Northern England 03 Farndale, North Yorkshire 04 Sheffield, South Yorkshire l Distance 17km/10½ miles l Time 5hrs l Type Valley, moorland ridge and woodland l Distance 5km/3 miles l Time 2hrs l Type Short, urban NAVIGATION FITNESS NAVIGATION FITNESS 2 LEVEL 2 2 LEVEL 2 1 LEVEL 1 1 LEVEL 1 plan your walk plan your walk l l Hartlepool Chapeltown l Rotherham Redcar l l l Middlesborough SOUTH YORKSHIRE SHEFFIELD NORTH YORKSHIRE FARNDALE l North l l Woodhouse Allerton Nether Edge ES Y l OAT l l Pickering Greenhill M Thirsk A L A HY: HY: HY: NEIL C HY: P P Where: Circular walk from Where: Circular walk Low Mill, Farndale, in around Sheffield city North York Moors National centre via Weston Park and PHOTOGRA Park. PHOTOGRA Crookes Valley Park. The lovely Dove Valley is renowned This route is one of hundreds House; the City Hall; the City Start/end: Low Mill 1. START Join the well-marked Start/end: Cathedral (SE672952). for its countless wild daffodils, footpath from the gateway at the Supertram stop (SK354874). written by volunteers – many of Museum; and parts of the terrain: which blanket its flanks in yellow mouth of the car park at Low Mill. whom are Ramblers – for the Get University of Sheffield. You’ll also Paved path, terrain: Mainly each spring. But it’s thanks to the Once over the nearby footbridge, Walking Keep Walking scheme, visit two popular parks – Weston moorland tracks and farm pavements, park paths and campaigning efforts of West Riding follow the path upstream beside a Ramblers-led initiative to Park and Crookes Valley Park. lanes. Includes a steady pedestrian areas. climb and numerous stiles. Ramblers that this beautiful part the River Dove. Here is the heart encourage more people to walk Many more easy walking routes MapS: OS Explorer 278; MapS: OS Explorer OL26; of Upper Farndale isn’t submerged of Farndale’s golden experience, every day and improve their like this are available free at Landranger 111. Landranger 100. beneath the waters of a vast and it can be very crowded around health. In the two years since it www.getwalking.org.uk – just GettinG there: The reservoir. Proposed by the regional Bank Holidays. This secluded, tree- GettinG there: The walk started, hundreds of people have one of the many ways in which seasonal M3 Moorsbus water board in the late 1960s, the lined treat presently reaches the starts from the Cathedral enjoyed the 12-week walking the Ramblers is trying to service via Kirkbymoorside plans were successfully seen off hamlet of High Mill, location of Supertram stop. programme in cities across encourage a healthier Britain. passes within a mile of Low by the Ramblers and other groups the renowned Daffy Caffy, 150m eatinG & drinkinG: There England, and thousands more Mill (✆ 01845 597000, after three years of parliamentary up the lane ahead. If a hoppy treat are loads of options in have taken up Get Walking packs 1. START Facing the cathedral, www.northyorkmoors.org. lobbying (see p8 for more details). is sought, the Feversham Arms is Sheffield’s city centre. For a to do it on their own. This turn R into East Parade, and then uk); regular buses serve This circular route shows why the 400m farther on in the village of nice veggie treat, though, Sheffield-based walk is written by L towards Campo Lane. Go Kirkbymoorside from tranquil dale has been so popular Church Houses. Otherwise, take try the Blue Moon Café on the veteran Ramblers volunteer diagonally across to St Peter’s Scarborough and other with walkers for decades, rising the gateway on the L, signed for St James Street (✆ 0114 276 Terry Howard, who has been Close (by Old Bank House) and centres. Low Mill car park from Farndale to offer immense Cow Bank, and cross a boggy field 3443). laying on outreach walks with the head up it to North Church Street. is 10km/6 miles north of panoramas across endless seas of and then a footbridge to start the SleepinG: There’s plenty to Ramblers for over 25 years (read Cross over and go R then L along Kirkbymoorside. heather. With its lattice of grey steady climb out of Farndale. The choose from. The Leopold more about him on p38). It’s Wheat’s Lane, emerging on to eatinG & drinkinG: stone walls, the landscape is a path rises via stiles to reach Hotel, in Leopold Square, is pretty flat by Sheffield standards, Paradise Square. Go up Paradise Feversham Arms Inn, patchwork of pastures, pocket Daleside Road. recommended (✆ 0845 078 and takes you from the medieval Street and back to Campo Lane. Church Houses (✆ 01751 woodlands and bold ridge-tops. 0067, www.leopoldhotel. part of town to where it Cross over, turn R and walk to 433206, www.feversham The red-pantiled cottages, farms 2. Turn R and at the nearby co.uk). Visit www. expanded westwards and uphill. Townhead Street. Turn L to the armsinn.co.uk). and barns give a hint of Tuscany junction bear L for Dale End. Just yorkshiresouth.com for Along the way you’ll see some of crossing and then R into SleepinG: Feversham Arms on the hottest days; age-old past Monket House, take the gated more options. Sheffield’s most famous buildings: Pinfold Street. the cathedral, where you start (see above); Burnley House, hamlets, mills and villages are track L for Bransdale, continuing ViSitor inforMation: linked by sinuous lanes and tracks the climb out of the dale along and finish; the oldest brick 2. Continue along the street (take ▲ Hutton-le-Hole (✆ 01751 ▲ Sheffield TIC, 14 Norfolk ▼ shimmer in a purple haze. this old pit road. The lane rises ▼ building in Sheffield, Old Bank care when crossing Rockingham Ordnance Surveymap Ordnance Surveymap continued… continued... Row (✆ 0114 221 1900, www. 417548, www.burnleyhouse. yorkshiresouth.com). co.uk). 2 ping ©Crowncopyright.AM34/08 Guidebooks: Inner City ping ©Crowncopyright.AM34/08 Visitor information: Round Walk of Sheffield and Helmsley TIC (✆ 01439 Iron Age to Steel Age are 770173, www.northyork both leaflets by Terry moors.org.uk). Howard available free from Guidebooks: North York Sheffield TIC or available to Moors Walks (Pathfinder START download from www. FINISH 1 Guide) by Brian Conduit, sheffield.gov.uk. Dennis Kelsall and Jan 1 3 2 START 3 LocaL rambLers Group: FINISH Kelsall (£11.99, Crimson, Sheffield Ramblers (www. ISBN 9781854585394); The sheffieldramblers.org). North York Moors by Paddy Dillon (£12, Cicerone, Street), and as you approach the 5 ISBN 9781852844486). dual carriageway you may well LocaL rambLers Group: catch the distinctive scent from 4 Ryedale Ramblers (✆ 01751 the Henderson’s Relish factory. 477325); Darlington Dales Cross the road and tramline to and Hills (✆ 07929 912710, continue along Leavygreave Road. www.darlingtonhiking.org. At the top of the road, turn R and uk). go up the steps, then go L and Map not to scale. Map not to scale. through the underpass. Head up Representation of from Church Houses and winds Representation of the steps and past Sheffield OS Explorer 278 up to the crest. Just north of this OS Explorer OL26 5 1:25,000 4 University into Weston Park. 1:25,000 point are the red roofs of the www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk famous Lion Inn on Blakey 3. Walk towards the statue of Ridge. Our track climbs steadily Ebenezer Elliott, local poet and Steepness of walk past old coal delvings and grouse Steepness of walk Chartist. At the statue, take the butts, with engaging views up 400 path on the R and head for the 150 the great, green, hollow dale. lake. Keeping the lake on your R, Eventually the climbing eases 300 head for the tennis courts and 100 and a long straight stretch then go R to the park entrance on brings you to a junction of ways. 200 Mushroom Lane. Cross and go 50 Elevation (m) 100 through the gate on the L into Elevation (m) 3. Turn L along the old Westside Crookes Valley Park. At the 0 0.75 1.50 2.25 3.00 3.75 4.50 Road, an undulating sandy track 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 waterside, turn L and then go up Total distance of walk (km) along Rudland Rigg, offering an Total distance of walk (km) the steps at the far side. Go across extraordinary panorama across the access road and on to then continue on the shared path 6. Look for a building with red waves of ridges, deep dales and waymarked handgate, on a path occasionally indistinct – drops to Mushroom Lane. Turn R and make to Springfield School. structures on it. Once there, you’ll flat-topped hills – all burnished through boggy fir and birch another track at the foot of the for the junction with Western see a covered entrance with black purple in late summer and woods. This eases L to pass slope. Pick up the signed path Bank. To your L is the City Museum, 5. Here the road bends towards rails – go down it and emerge on to autumn. For company, expect through a gate, then ahead to a opposite to use the Dale End which has a café and toilets. the junction with Fitzwilliam Pinstone Street, with the City Hall the whirring, chuckling flight of broken wall; turn R past this, to footbridge over the River Dove. Street. Cross over into Devonshire opposite. Cross over to the R of red grouse and the mournful descend to a footbridge over 4.