Scale Route Directions 6 Ponds 0 1/2 1 km Oberwald 1 Starting out at Station Road, , take a Cottage 0 1/41/2 mile right onto Wortley Road. Follow the road under the rail bridge. Turn right onto sign posted Public 5 Quarry Ivy Cottage N Footpath. Follow the path to steps leading to the Cottages river. Follow the path to the left, along the river side. Heycrook Wortley Common 7 2 Near the bypass flyover, follow the path up the Crag steps. Head under the bypass towards the road. Forge Cottage 4 R Rocher i At the road, cross over and take the tarmac Public ver Don Footpath to your left towards Tin Mill Angling Club. 8 A629 3 Can you see any evidence of water-wheels along the Tin Mill Tin Mill Angling Club river? Wortley Tin Mill opened in 1743. It used water Rocher power from the River Don to roll wrought iron into thin sheets which were then coated with tin. A616

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D W Heath o h n 5 On the road turn right and head down it. Once a r n c opposite Quarry Cottage take a left and follow l if fe 10 the Public Footpath uphill. Leave the woods at Key C KEY ra Oberwald Cottage. gs 1 Heritage trail and direction Wortley Top Forge Museum 6 On road, turn right. Walk along pavement to Viewpoint Wortley Top Forge. Passing the Top Forge, cross the House/farm bridge. Take the Public Footpath on the next left. Access Land Boundary (Continues overleaf) Local Nature Reserve

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Parking Bus stop (for more information www.travelsouthyorkshire.com) Bridge Photograph by: David Bocking Photograph by: David Bocking Photograph by: David Bocking Railway line River Don Trans Pennine Trail Wharncliffe Heath www.stonetosteel.org.uk Steel Valley Heritage Trail Route Directions continued... Stone to Steel Area Map Forge, Crags 4 of 6 and Heath Wortley Top Forge is the oldest surviving water powered iron forge in the world. The forge was an important supplier of Midhopestones Scale Crags to discover the 4 1 A616 high quality iron forgings, including axles for the expanding Road 4 panorama of the Upper Don Valley A616 A616 1 Manchester Road Victorian railway network. The forge was a significant 2 A616following tracks and footpaths industrial operation surviving into the early 20th Century. A629 2 Deepcar Wortley Top Forge Museum is open on Sundays and Bank Stocksbridge Distance: about 9 km / 5½ miles A6102 holiday Mondays, see www.topforge.co.uk A629 1 3 Deepcar 2 Heritage Leaflets A6102 7 Walk up track towards the row of cottages. Take a 3 Manchester Road 1 Town Heritage Trail 3 right through the cottage yards into field. Follow the field 4 Wharncliffe 2 Side 5 to boundary on your right to the Trans Pennine Trail. On 6 Midhopestones 5 Langsett Manchester Road the trail, turn right. 3 Parsonage Farm and Road Townend Common 6 4 Forge, Crags and Heath Wharncliffe 8 Continue straight along the trail until reaching the Side 5 Glen Howe and More Hall “Upper Don Trail” sign. Head under the bridge, keep left 6 Oughtibridge Rambles 5 and go up the hill past the way-marker post to . Langsett Grenoside Road Four Heritage Handbooks Available 6 9 Just before reaching the second way-marker post, Oughtibridge continue on the left path uphill. Take the second path on Patterns in the Landscape, Getting Around and About, Steel Worrall the right into the woodlands. Follow the path through the Valley Life and Hidden Treasures. All are available to download Nature Reserve. from the Stone to Steel website: www.stonetosteel.org.uk Cover Photograph by: David Bocking

Wharncliffe Heath Local Nature Reserve protects an Stone to Steel is a project celebrating 10,000 years area of heath, which is an internationally threatened of human history in the Upper Don Valley. It is a landscape. The reserve provides a home for several rare partnership between the Steel Valley Project, South and threatened species, including Nightjar, Grass Snake, Forest Partnership and Sheffield City Council Viviparous Lizard, Palmate Newt and Green Tiger Beetle. that covers an area of approximately ten square miles See www.wharncliffeheathlandstrust.org.uk around Stocksbridge. It encompasses the towns and villages of Stocksbridge, Midhopestones, Wharncliffe 10 At the take a right. Follow the path Side, Oughtibridge, Bolsterstone, Deepcar and Grenoside. along the crags, down through the woods and under the Stone to Steel is funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund. railway bridges. Follow the path onto Station Road. For more information and to find out about volunteering please visit our website at: www.stonetosteel.org.uk Wharncliffe Crags have been quarried since as early or email us at: [email protected] as the Iron Ages for Quern Stones. These were used Alternatively write to us at: Steel Valley Project, to mill corn by hand long before wind and water mills The ARC, Manchester Road, Stocksbridge, S36 2DT were invented. They also gave the area its name as Wharncliffe comes from ‘Quern Cliffe’, its original name. www.stonetosteel.org.uk