Points of Interest Agden reservoir The reservoir was completed Smithy Garage The Watch House in 1869 and holds 560 million This building was a blacksmith’s This unusual building at the gallons of water. The word shop until the late 1930s. If you bottom of Jane Lane was built ‘agden’ means ‘valley of the oak Bradfield look over the wall after passing in 1832 to allow a guard to trees’ (Smith 1961). the garage, you will see the watch over the graveyard and Fairhouse Lane remains of Low Bradfield Corn apprehend bodysnatchers. Mill. Until the 1960s there was a Loop St Nicholas’ Church general grocer’s shop, selling School Lane The parish church is grade one everything from sweets to Although no trace remains listed and included in Simon pins and paraffin at the top of today, the original Low Bradfield Jenkins’ ‘England’s Thousand Fairhouse Lane. Fairhouse Farm School, built around 1706, stood Best Churches’. It is in the stands below the turning circle A walk from Low Bradfield to High near here. The building was Gothic Perpendicular style and and is one of the oldest houses completely destroyed in the dates from the 1480s, with in the area, dating from the flood in 1864 but Mr. Nicholls parts of an earlier church that 1630s. Bradfield and Agden Reservoir the headmaster and his family may have been built in the Length – 5.3 miles | Time – 3 hours managed to escape to higher 12th century. It is worth looking References: ground by running up the steps inside. A number of events are David Hey (1979) ‘The Making of South Yorkshire’ Moorland Publishing, Ashbourne. opposite the end of the bridge. held here, including a Festival of Simon Jenkins (1999) ‘England’s Thousand Best Churches’, Allen Lane, London. Music in June each year. There Castle Hill A.H.Smith (1961) The Place-names of the West Riding of Yorkshire’ Cambridge are excellent views from the University Press, Cambridge. Bradfield Local History Group, Bygones of Bradfield, David Hey (1979) suggests the churchyard up Bradfield Dale to Vols 1 – 3, Hilltop Press, Sheffield. Malcolm Nunn ‘Around Bradfield, Loxley and earthwork may have been an Derwent Ridge. Hillsborough’First published 1996, reprinted 2003, Tempus Publishing, Stroud. early defensive structure known as a ring work. Bailey Hill Acknowledgements: Behind the church, covered Research, photographs and proofing by Rural Research.Route by Terrier Designs. The Old Horns Inn by trees, is Bailey Hill, a Historical photographs supplied by and copyright of Malcolm Nunn, Archivist, The present building was built man-made conical mound Bradfield Parish Council. Designed and printed by Oakleaf Graphics Ltd.Produced for around 1830 on the site of an that is a Scheduled Ancient Bradfield Parish Council by CMP Consultancy. earlier inn. It was also previously Monument. David Hey (1979) Funded by East Peak Innovation Partnership LEADER Programme and Peak District used as a farm. The private says that it is "One of the best National Park Authority Sustainable Development Fund. houses across the road from preserved and most dramatic For more information on walks in Bradfield visitwww.bradfield-walkers.org.uk the Old Horns Inn were used as motte-and-baileys in Yorkshire." the Bradfield Parish workhouse Copyright Bradfield Parish Council between 1759 and 1847. Supported by the Sustainable Development Fund Bradfield Parish Council Walks and Trails The path leads to the derelict farm buildings at Rocher Head farm. Follow the lane Bradfield Loop past the buildings and the barn. Continue along the lane, A walk from Low Bradfield to swinging left up to Smallfield High Bradfield and Agden Lane. Beware of traffic. Cross the road and take the footpath over the stile into the From Low Bradfield the route climbs through field opposite. fields to High Bradfield, then passes St. Nicholas' Head down the field and then turn left to the stile out of the Church and Bailey Hill and continues through Windy Bank Wood Smallfield Lane field and onto Agden Side Road. wn House Lane woodland before crossing more open land. The Bailey Hill o Take the path opposite through Bailey 7 Br W final section is by Agden Reservoir. indy Bank Wood 6 the heather. 5 The path turns left and passes 8 Agden Oaking Bank through a wall before tracking Route Instructions Reservoir High Bradfield 4 From the car park, turn left and field. Take care as many of the along the edge of the valley, then left again over Smithy stiles on this path are in poor 3 back towards Agden Reservoir. Bridge. Follow the road (Smithy condition. There are good views from here, and there is a well-placed bench Bridge Road) and then at the Go over the stile and At the next field boundary corner by the garage (See to sit and admire the scenery. immediately pass through a you will be able to see Points of interest ), continue narrow stone stile into the a ladder stile diagonally When the path reaches the wall Start it turns right and drops steeply along the road (Lamb Hill) . upper field. across the field. Follow the Low After about 250m there is edge of the field around, Bradfield to enter the former woods and Cross this field and the next 9 continues down until it turns a lane which forks off and aiming for the ladder stile keeping the wall on your right 1 upwards on the left. Take this until you reach the stile. Cross 2 left and goes down to Agden near the trees on the far field Reservoir . path. boundary. From the ladder stile the stile. About 100m before you reach head up the banking to the You will now see two more Turn right along the lane. After Mill Farm, there is a footpath wall and wooden stile. ladder stiles across the next Pass over the earth works of Bailey Hill but follow the a short distance you will see the Castle Hill and drop down bridge across the stream. Cross on your left by a bush. There is a There isn't much of a stone two fields and up to the road. path as it makes a sharp left in square green footpath marker. to the stiles at the bottom right the woods. the bridge and go through the stile remaining but there is a Beware of traffic. corner of the field. wooden gate. Go over the stile and follow the Drop down to the gate and the wooden stile immediately over Cross the fields and stiles onto path behind the farm. the wall. Cross the small fields in the stream. Cross over the bridge The right of way goes up from Loxley Road. direction of the white house. the gate to the lane (Windy Go across the field keeping the Having entered the field over the stream and take the wall on your right. Head for Cross the road and take the lane When you reach the road, turn track that swings round to Bank) and then left along the continue east keeping close to which is more or less opposite left and go into High Bradfield . lane towards Low Bradfield. the stone stile at the gap in the wall on your right. the left. After 200m the path the trees at the bottom of the the stile. Beware of traffic. reaches some gateways. Take (There is now also a the gate in front of you and go concessionary path by the Follow the lane up the hill, past In High Bradfield take the up into the field above. reservoir. If you prefer, follow the the cattle shed. Swing left with cobbled road in front of the path through the woods, taking the lane and continue up hill. Old Horns Inn and continue Head across and uphill to reach the lower route when options Details Swing left again as you pass straight ahead. the main path. At the end of the arise. You will eventually end up Grade - Gentle ascents, one / Smithy Bridge Road, Low what remains of a holiday field the path reaches a stone Just before the gates to the stile. Cross the stile into the on the lane whichever route you steep descent, can be muddy Bradfield. chalet. Continue along the church turn right and then take in places. Most paths well next field. take.) Refreshments – The Post Card lane in the direction of High the path behind the Watch defined. Beware of traffic. Café, The Plough Inn, Low Bradfield. House through the church Across the field there is a ladder Start - Car park, The Sands, Bradfield; Old Horns Inn, High 100m before joining the main yard. stile next to a broken down wall. Follow Windy Bank past the Low Bradfield. Bradfield. Cross this wall into the upper reservoir and down to the T road there is a ladder stile over At the end of the church yard the wall on the right. The path field. Continue heading the junction . Turn left down Fair Parking – as above. Public toilets – Low Bradfield. enter the woods. Take the goes up the hill to another same north westerly direction House Lane . The car park is Public transport – Buses 61 / Grid Reference - SK 2626 9204 path to the right, down into the ladder stile. At the top of the hill across the field. on the left. 62 stop at Fair House Lane woods. Do not take the extreme follow the ridge towards High right path that leads up to Bradfield..