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Responsible Walking Paths in Rotherham are Any enquiries please ring The Three Doomsday clearly shown on the OS 01709 822168 This walk uses just a few of Explorer Maps Nos. 278 and our many rights of way to Villages Walk Remember to keep a track 279. Why not pick up a copy access and enjoy the of where you are in the How do I get there? at your local bookshop and countryside. A right of way is description, occasionally For up to date information devise your own walks. not owned by the council, it waymarks get vandalised contact Traveline on 01709 r e is a right to pass over private and we may not have p a 515151 or visit www.sypte.co.uk P had time to replace them. d No: land. When you go out please e l for timetables. c y Doorstep Walk 14 c remember that almost all the e R An easy way to explore the beautiful, The walk starts at Kiveton n o land you cross is in private Key d e local countryside on your ‘doorstep’. Bridge Railway Station. c ownership, and someone’s u d o r livelihood will depend on the Jim Tompkin 14 Walk No: 14 P crops and livestock there. The Three Doomsday The Three Doomsday Villages Walk Our countryside is not just A member of the Ramblers Villages Walk from By Jim Tompkin Association for many years, Kiveton Bridge 9 a beautiful place, but a 7 6 Jim is a valued member of our 3 2 working environment, please 8 9 Adopt a Path scheme. He’s been 0 play your part by keeping it 7 1 0 walking paths around Rotherham o i tidy for the people who walk d u t for decades and been tireless in S and work there tomorrow. n g i helping out where he can, s e D Take a responsible attitude passing on reports to the council T B R into the countryside, leave y and the association to make sure b only footprints and take only n o i our path network is in excellent t c u photographs. d o condition for those who visit. r p & Follow the Countryside Code: People who have had dealings n g i s with Jim will concur he is e • Be safe - plan ahead and D follow any signs constantly cheerful and friendly. His knowledge of the path • Leave gates and property 6 0 / network around Rotherham is 6 as you find them 8 0 8 unrivalled and his passion and : F • Protect plants and animals, E commitment to opening up the R and take your litter home 14 countryside for the benefit of all • Keep dogs under close local people is admirable. control • Consider other people Public Produced by the Rights of Way Team. ‘CPRE Design Commendation: Doorstep Walks’ Todwick Doorstep Walk Our second Doomsday village, there has The Three Doomsday Villages Walk been a village here since the time of the I All three villages you pass Norman Conquest.The name has varied from Kiveton Bridge through are mentioned in Short, Easy to many times over the centuries, being called Taewic,Toddwyke and Todewyk amongst 3 the Doomsday Book. follow and local many other variations. Stay on this surfaced track as it heads I This walk is near to the Visit three ancient villages on this Axle Lane is the long path between Todwick between houses, eventually the and Anston and is marked by a long wall track ends at open country. Head 4 You will Cuckoo Way – a 46 mile trail 5 mile, relatively flat walk which is which, at the time of writing is in a sadly left along the footpath, staying on eventually arrive at South which follows the packed with interest. You’ll visit dilapidated condition.This route is originally the path as it heads sharply right Anston (see sidebar). At the main thought to have been the coach road leading following the stone walled edge of a road head left down the B6059 to Chesterfield Canal. We’ll be ancient lanes, open farmland and to nearby Keeton (Kiveton) Hall, and was at large field. You are now on Axle Lane. where it becomes West Street. Ignoring one time home of the Second Duke of Leeds basing many future walks in enjoy excellent far-reaching views Axle Lane connects the villages of side roads you will eventually come to (Kent not Yorkshire). It was built around Todwick and South Anston, and was the square towered Methodist Church in this area so keep an eye out on this straightforward route 1698 by the First Duke of Leeds to replace possibly the old coaching road into the centre of the village where there are nearby Thorpe Hall (which will be visited in Keeton (Kiveton) Hall (now two pubs, you are halfway around the for routes around what has which uses easy to follow a future Doorstep Walk). demolished) stay on this path route and South Anston is a good place along the field been described as one of the footpaths and bridleways. Keeton Hall itself was demolished by the 6th to stop if you wish. (South Anston headland. Duke in 1811, and local rumour suggests that also makes a good alternative start most beautiful towpaths in point – facing the Methodist 5 I This walk is one of the most the duke was forced to demolish the hall as Head up England. part of a failed wager. church and heading right up Sheffield Road passing challenging of the series at Sheffield Road). shops and two pubs and I You do not need to read just over five miles long, so heading towards the tall spired church dedicated to St James. Just a map. allow a good morning or 2 before the road junction take a short This bridleway You do not need fancy afternoon to enjoy the route, is known as Storth Lane, flight of steps situated on the right to I and it links Wales to Todwick, access High Street. Head right here to equipment. or alternatively take an easy stay on this track which at first is rejoin the B6059. Carefully cross the road day to enjoy the walk and enclosed between hedges and then and head left to re-enter Axle Lane on Just follow the crosses a broad field. Eventually you will 6 the right. Soon the lane forks, take have a good stop on the way. reach the village of Todwick (see sidebar), This bridleway links the left hand fork and follow the Doorstep Waymark There are plenty of places to turn right, passing Todwick Post Office South Anston to Kiveton, broad bridleway as it traverses (a good alternative starting point – just and is as long as Axle Lane, across a large open field stop at on the route, including head right here and follow the description). passing near a small private fishing system. For more details, pond on the way. Take care as you head shops and pubs, so why not At the T junction head right and cross the downloads of road by the pedestrian crossing, head through Kiveton Hall Farm and watch out right until you reach Lindley’s Croft, for passing fisherman’s vehicles along the alternative route stock up on food and drink on 1 Start at Kiveton proceed left down here, and at way. Carefully cross Kiveton Lane and walk Bridge Railway Station descriptions and themed guides the way or plan a lunch stop, the first corner head along left past another small fishing pond. Follow and head for the road, just to always check times for meals Manor Drive. the path across the field on your right and check out our web-page on your right is a pedestrian crossing, heads towards houses – follow this as it and opening before setting cross the road here and head left passes between buildings and reaches www.rotherham.gov.uk/prow along the main street through Kiveton Kiveton Park. At the road turn right out. Walking is easy and (see sidebar). Continue along the road and head back into the village – relatively flat, with many trails until you reach Chestnut Avenue, head you’ll soon see Kiveton Bridge Kiveton right down this road, passing Wales Railway Station once South Anston surfaced or following well Comprehensive School, and stay on more. Meaning ‘settlement in the hollow’, this village has existed since the road as it becomes a track, Our final village on the walk appears in the Doomsday Book as Litelanstan, and is thought to established headlands and the Doomsday Book of 1086, where it is recorded as Cieutone crosses a railway line and be an original Anglo-Saxon settlement.The name Anston is thought to mean ‘a stone’, and and was owned by William de Warenne. Coal was mined tracks, however, always wear heads into open there has been a great deal of quarrying in the area, with one still operating in the present day. around the village from the middle ages until Kiveton Pit was good footwear and expect rain countryside. closed in 1994.The nearby Chesterfield Canal was completed The map used is based on the Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 mapping One of the most interesting historical features of the village is that the stone for the houses of at any time of the year. in 1777 and at the time Norwood Tunnel, which lies just to the with the sanction of the controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. parliament was quarried nearby – this is covered in more detail in Doorstep Walk 16.Anston south of the village, was the longest in the world.