A Map of Bradfield Walkers are Welcome Bradfield Kirk Bridge

Car Park Nether Farm WOOD FALL LANE Cafe & Sports Post Office Field

FAIR HOUSE LANE Former Thorn Low Bradfield School House Mill Farm ANNET LANE Fair House Farm School Bridge LAMB HILL Doe House Wood Works Mill Lee PLUMPTON LANE SCHOOL LANE The Bottom Plough Dyson Bradfield House

Dale MILL LEE ROAD

Lea Bradfield Walkers are Welcome group acknowledges the support Farm MILL LEE LANE of South Passenger Transport Executive to enable it to produce this leaflet. There are regular half hourly buses (61 & 62) from Interchange which service the village and outlying areas. which used After crossing the bridge, turn left. to filter water On this site stood a three storey A Short Walk Round Low Bradfield from STRINES, corn mill;records show a corn mill DALE DYKE and at Bradfield from around 1218. The AGDEN reservoirs. In 1930 it had the Filter Houses last corn mill replaced one destroyed first telephone installed in Bradfield. in the flood which was driven by a Starting from the village car park the stream on The premises closed in 1994 following water turbine (as opposed to a water the left is AGDEN BECK which comes from AGDEN the completion of the new Water wheel for the previous mills). Unfortunately the RESERVOIR and joins DALE DYKE BECK a hundred Treatment Works in the Loxley Valley. corn mill caught fire in 1940 and was completely yards downstream forming the before destroyed and never rebuilt. The mill race and dam flowing into . The house on the On the left are six Council houses and a remains can be seen over the wall on the left just right is NETHER FARM built around 1820. Leaving the private house built during the 1960s. Turn left at before reaching SMlTHY GARAGE. The garage was car park and bearingleft the former LOW BRADFIELD the PLOUGH INN, (the road ahead goes to ) previously a BLACKSMITHS SHOP until the late 1930s. JUNIOR & INFANT SCHOOL and SCHOOL HOUSE are on which was originally built as a farmhouse, listed your right. The school was built in 1867 to replace as a BEERHOUSE in 1841 and officially listed by the Cross the road carefully. The sports field (official one on a different site that was washed away in brewery in 1847. The archway was blocked in during name DODGE CROFT) was donated by Mr. IBBOTSON the FLOOD OF 1864. The school closed in 1960s when alterations took place; it was previously (note the memorial plaque/stone on the wall) and 1985 with 32 scholars being transferred used to take cattle into the auction yard at the accommodates BOWLS, CRICKET, TENNIS as well as to nearby SCHOOL. The rear of the building. The houses on the VILLAGE HALL. school and house have been sold to a the left are PLOUGH COTTAGES. private buyer. Bear right keeping beside the field wall. Next on the left is GLEBE COURT, The group of houses opposite are BURNSIDE After passing the bus shelter, bear which was completed in 1990/91 in a COTTAGES, the earliest of which dates back to right into MILL LEE ROAD and cross joint venture between around 1625, (it is believed that this is where CHAPEL BRIDGE (which which was Sports Field NATIONAL PARK, BRADFIELD PARISH the first victim of the flood occurred when a two completely washed away in the flood. COUNCIL and SHEFFIELD CITY COUNCIL day old baby was washed from its mothers arms) Below the bridge was once a sheep/ as a ‘low cost housing scheme’ to cater whilst behind is THORN HOUSE, where the mill penfold where livestock were washed for local needs. All residents must have owner at the time of the flood resided. Moving before being auctioned at the nearby PLOUGH INN. local connections to qualify for tenancy. further on, BURNSIDE HOUSE is the large house The building on the left is the former WESLEYAN on the right, after which we come to WOODFALL CHAPEL, built in 1817 and housed 154 scholars. It Across to the right, in the distance is FOXHOLES LANE which leads to HIGH was a temporary school following the destruction of FARM with its ‘castellated’ walls and can probably BRADFIELD. This piece of road the old school by the flood of 1864; it is now the best described as a ‘folly’. Turn left at the former is referred to locally as ‘The headquarters of BRADFIELD PARISH COUNCIL. On the POLICE HOUSE built cl960 (the original police house Street’ with the CAFE / POST wall below the building is a stone dragon rescued was in the middle house in a row of cottages half a OFFICE / VILLAGE SHOP on from a derelict works in . mile further down the road) This is SCHOOL LANE; the right and the former the farm on the right is MILL FARM, whilst on the CROSS INN on the left comer. On the right is the new WESLEYAN CHAPEL left is FAR FOLD built in 1735 which withstood the The inn closed around 1980 £ opened in 1899 at a cost of 1585 to seat 190 1864 flood. In the area close to the bridge stood and was converted into a Post Office/Village Shop adults. It held its last the original school built around 1706 which was private house. service in August 1993 and completely destroyed ‘in the flood. was subsequently sold The headmaster Mr. NICHOLLS Do not turn up to a private buyer for and his family managed to escape WOODFALL LANE, but walk along conversion to a house. to safety by running up the steps towards THE SANDS, with the VILLAGE opposite the end of the bridge and HALL on the left. The new village hall Next on the right are on to higher ground. DAMFLASK opened in 2007 replacing the previous the FILTER HOUSES, built in RESERVOIR is on the right. one built c1936. Cross the stream by the 1913 and extended in 1954, footbridge to return to the car park. Old Wesleyan Chapel Damflask Reservoir