WALKS 10-11 1 3 South Elmsall to Hemsworth Bypass 9 Notton 11 Bretton Hemsworth 2 10 South Elmsall
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The route is divided divided is route The landscapes. of variety wide a covers recommended in conjunction with the leafl ets, the map map the ets, leafl the with conjunction in recommended route around the Wakefi eld Metropolitan District and and District Metropolitan eld Wakefi the around route The use of Ordnance Survey Explorer maps is is maps Explorer Survey Ordnance of use The The Wakefi eld Way is a 70 mile, waymarked walking walking waymarked mile, 70 a is Way eld Wakefi The THE WAKEFIELD WAY WAKEFIELD THE WAKEFIELD WAY - WALK 10 SOUTH ELMSALL TO HEMSWORTH BYPASS - DISTANCE 7.14 MILES (11.5KM) Start at South Elmsall Station (WF9 2SF) Frickley Go through the car park and before the end of the platforms 1 Country Park turn right down a gravel track for 100m. When the track turns left bear right and go over a small bridge. Go straight on down the street to the main road. Cross and turn left, take Finish the next right up Rowley Lane. SE 436 120 Haigh Hall WF9 4DG B6273 Roundabout B6422 2 At the top of the lane turn right into Frickley Country Park and keep left. After 50m bear right up the hill keeping the football pitches on your right. At a junction of paths keep straight on following the tarmac path as it bends left, right 1 South Elmsall and left again. At a fork take the lefthand gravel path. SE 473 111 Follow this contour path but turn right at the fi rst waymarker WF9 2SF post. Follow this path passing an information board on your right and turn right at a T junction. After 10m turn right again to an obelisk. This is the start of the ‘Timeline for Frickley Colliery’ which gives the position of the shafts and Frickley the disposition of the coal seams underground. Follow the Kennels Country Park obelisk timeline to the second obelisk, go past it and bear right at a Rowley fork. Follow this path and go through a squeeze stile. Turn SE 472 107 Lane left soon turning right to go under the railway. Football Pitch 2 B4622 3 Turn left following a path parallel to the railway soon Frickley bearing right to the left of an electricity pylon. At a track Country CP SE 432 099 turn left going round a metal gate and over a field. At Park the next field keep the hedge on your left until you see a Info Board fence with a stile. Keep straight on crossing 4 stiles and 4 eventually turn right along a track with Wink House to your Burnt Wood Lane 3 right. Go past a metal gate and at a five way junction keep SE 462 095 Obelisks straight on. Where another path crosses turn right keeping Howell the hedge to your right eventually crossing a field into a Wood Burntwood Power Line wood. On exiting the wood keep Howell House to your right, Hall go up the wooden steps and across the field to the edge of Howell Wood. Turn left and at the road turn right. Keep B6273 right at the next road and continue to Burntwood Hall. Just Railway past Burntwood Hall take a footpath forking off to the right and continue forward with a hedge on your right until you Howell reach the entrance to Howell Wood car park. House Wink 4 Take the access road out of the wood and turn left at a T House Frickley Hall junction. Take the next right and then left onto a track before Steps the kennels. The track soon becomes a path, follow this for approx. 1 mile to the road. Turn left and follow the footway to Hague Hall roundabout (WF9 4DG). Go straight on towards Hemsworth for buses. 1 Kilometre 1 Mile OS Explorer map 278 Sheffi eld and Barnsley Visit the Area website www.ramblersyorkshire.org This leafl et was created in 2018 in created was et leafl This Embankment, London SE1 7TW. Should you encounter any problems please report these to the local authority 03458 506506 03458 authority local the to these report please problems any encounter you Should 7TW. SE1 London Embankment, No 4458492. Registered Charity in England and Wales – No 1093577. Registered offi ce: 2nd fl oor, Camelford House, 87-90 Albert Albert 87-90 House, Camelford oor, fl 2nd ce: offi Registered 1093577. No – Wales and England in Charity Registered 4458492. No The Ramblers’ Association is a company limited by guarantee, registered in England, Scotland and Wales. Company registration registration Company Wales. and Scotland England, in registered guarantee, by limited company a is Association Ramblers’ The • Wear suitable footwear and clothing and footwear suitable • Wear Telecoms • Leave farm animals alone, do not feed them feed not do alone, animals farm Leave • Golf course Golf • Keep to the waymarked rights of way, especially across farmland across especially way, of rights waymarked the to Keep • Country park Country 3 after your dog your after FP Footpath Footpath FP • Keep dogs under eff ective control, on a lead near livestock – clean up up clean – livestock near lead a on control, ective eff under dogs Keep • + Church Church + • Take your litter home litter your • Take Railway station Railway 4 • Leave gates & property as you fi nd them nd fi you as property & gates Leave • Parking Parking 1 Bus stop stop Bus Follow the Countryside Code: Countryside the Follow Key: Motorway footpath Adjoining Water 2 Road Way eld Wakefi 10 South Elmsall South 2 Hemsworth Bretton Notton 11 9 3 South Elmsall to Hemsworth Bypass Hemsworth to Elmsall South 1 11 10 WALKS - Park Thorpe Audlin Thorpe Anglers Country Anglers Horbury 8 Wakefield of 4 a k e W f City City i d e n l d u o ’ s r 7 Pontefract Kirkhamgate a r u k r l a a 6 l Stanley Castleford 5 w b o e l u i n direction. clockwise a follow and Park Country m d Anglers at start ets leafl these but direction either in and a 0 order any in done be can walks The walker. individual r 7 the suit to together added or split be may Sections y www.wymetro.com or 10pm and 7am between 7676 points accessible by public transport. public by accessible points A 245 0113 on Metro contact information train and bus For into 11 sections of varying length with start and end end and start with length varying of sections 11 into number is quoted on each page. page. each on quoted is number covers a wide variety of landscapes. The route is divided divided is route The landscapes. of variety wide a covers recommended in conjunction with the leafl ets, the map map the ets, leafl the with conjunction in recommended route around the Wakefi eld Metropolitan District and and District Metropolitan eld Wakefi the around route The use of Ordnance Survey Explorer maps is is maps Explorer Survey Ordnance of use The The Wakefi eld Way is a 70 mile, waymarked walking walking waymarked mile, 70 a is Way eld Wakefi The THE WAKEFIELD WAY WAKEFIELD THE WAKEFIELD WAY - WALK 10 SOUTH ELMSALL TO HEMSWORTH BYPASS - DISTANCE 7.14 MILES (11.5KM) Start at South Elmsall Station (WF9 2SF) Frickley Go through the car park and before the end of the platforms 1 Country Park turn right down a gravel track for 100m.