BARNSLEY BOUNDARY WALK Waymarked Walk No. 5 1 Our walk starts on Regina Crescent, off the busy 8 Walk down Chapel Hill, at Clayton Common, then 10 Turn right into the public open A628 Barnsley Road at Brierley. At the end of the turn right adjacent to Glebe Cottage via a short footpath space, and continue with houses to The Barnsley Boundary Walk is made up of twelve short BRIERLEY to Crescent join Cliff Lane via the alleyway. to the main road. Here turn left, then after 150 yds turn your left and a pond to your right, walks joined to form a continuous route some 73 miles B right opposite Hallbridge Farm onto the footpath to to reach the B6411 Lidget Lane. BOLTON UPON At the end of the lane turn right following the field edge (117 km) in length, mainly through the Metropolitan path to Brierley Road. Here you may experience a Thurnscoe. Borough of Barnsley, but also in parts of Kirklees, DEARNE 11 Turn right then left into The magnificent panoramic view across Barnsley. 9 The path bears left and left again across a wooden Wakefield, Doncaster, and Sheffield. 10 Chapel Lane Windings road, then right again Starting Point Full of Surprises ... 2 Carefully cross the busy road and continue on a footbridge. 600 yds further on cross a bridge over the and over Phoenix Park another You can join the route at any point and enjoy one or A628 Barnsley Road, Brierley. The Walk from Brierley to Bolton upon Dearne is railway line and head to Chapel Lane, north of reclaimed colliery spoil tip, to pass Distance full of surprises, variety and contrast. footpath through old meadows around the perimeter Phoenix more sections to suit your time and energies, and travel 9.6 miles (15.5 km). Thurnscoe East. under the A635 Goldthorpe By- The old centre of Brierley is a Conservation Area of the former Willowgarth High School. Park 13 arrangements. To Doncaster Time and includes the fine Church of St.Paul’s. 11 pass. Allow yourself up to five 3 Walk downhill and across the head of The Dell, a THURNSCOE EAST This leaflet is one of a series of six designed not only to hours for exploring at a In contrast Grimethorpe has shaken off its ‘Brassed 14 12 A635 In Lockwood Road is the show you the route but also to point out and explain leisurely pace. Off’ image from its time as a pit village and is local nature reserve, then ascend diagonally to the edge PH actively engaged in a successful process of splendid Anglican Church of the many of the interesting facts and features to be Footwear of Tom Bank Wood. CLAYTON P Some sections can have wet, regeneration with many thriving modern industrial P Sacred Heart, built in 1913. It is an units. 12 discovered along this very popular walking way. muddy or uneven ground. early example of reinforced Choose appropriate footwear. To the north of Grimethorpe the footpath crosses 4 After leaving the wood, follow the hedge line 8 9 The walk roughly follows the boundary of the Waymarks wonderful meadows and the Dell with its series of heading towards Grimethorpe. Turn left at the head of Barnburgh Lane concrete construction. Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley through a great The route is waymarked with ponds. Burntwood Road, up past the former Brierley Lodge and a distinctive B circled with Beyond the extensive woodlands at West Haigh Howell House variety of landscapes from the moorland of Dunford, arrows. bear left across the field to enter West Haigh Wood. Wood and Howell Wood and just into Doncaster GOLDTHORPE the wooded environs of Wharncliffe, the historic parks at How to get there district lies the rural gem of Clayton village with its P The villages around the route The path leads into this fine oak/ birch woodland, Cannon Hall, Bretton and Wortley, and the wetlands of classical duck pond. 5 THURNSCOE are served by bus services and then bears left across Houghton Common to the B6273 Brierley Lodge farmscape P the Lower Dearne. Landscapes rich in social, economic some railway stations. Nearby Again in contrast, the former mining villages of Challenger bus stops are shown. Thurnscoe, Goldthorpe and Bolton upon Dearne Hemsworth to Great Houghton road. Wood Highgate and natural history. You can make your own travel remain engaged in the revitalisation which extends BOLTON arrangements using the South across the Dearne Valley. 6 Turn right, then after 500 yds, left into Howell Lane Howell Wood As you enjoy the Boundary Walk please respect the Yorkshire Travel Line; upon interests of those who live and work in the countryside. Tel: (01709) 515151. and continue on to the southern corner of Howell Country Park Howell Lane If you do use a car please use Wood, a Country Park managed by Doncaster MDC. 7 DEARNE the car parks where these ‘The Dell’ Nature Reserve, Brierley Further Information exist, and be considerate of others when parking 7 Turn left onto the path to Howell House Farm. Brierley Gap If you have any comments on the Boundary Walk, encounter any elsewhere. Continue through Challenger Wood and onto Clayton Burntwood 6 difficulties en route, or would like information on other walks and rides Additional Information Houghton Lodge village. Hall Billingley in Barnsley, including the Trans Pennine Trail, please contact: Barnsley The route is covered by OS Metropolitan Borough Council, Environmental Services, Public Rights Explorer Maps No’s:- 5 of Way, PO Box 601, Barnsley, S70 9FA. Tel: (01226) 772142. OL1 The Peak District, Dark Peak and map 278 E-mail: [email protected]. Sheffield and Barnsley Barn Owl l For details about the Trans Pennine Trail contact The TPT Office c/o Ringstone Hill West Haigh Barnlsey Council, PO Box 597, Barnsley, S70 9EW. Tel: (01226)772574. A628 Wood 13 Turn left onto Main Street, Common Road GREAT HOUGHTON E-mail: [email protected]. Tom Bank 4 Goldthorpe and head towards T A635 Doncaster Road. Carefully cross Acknowledgements o Pontefract BRIERLEY Wood Brierley Lodge A637 M1 A61 Middlecliffe HUDDERSFIELD LEEDS WAKEFIELD over and continue along Kingsmark Produced by: BMBC 2003, 3rd edition 2015 N 3 A628 PONTEFRACT J38 The Dell Lady Wood Royston Way by the side of the recreation Re-designed by: Mike Gibson Darton ground. Grimethorpe Illustrations: © BMBC Cudworth A629 A635 Sch HUDDERSFIELD Cawthorne Printed by: BARNSLEY Barnsley Road 14 At Barnburgh Lane turn left, A616 J37 Hoylandswaine Thurnscoe A635 Dodworth Darfield A1(M) 2 then right into Engine Lane, then Goldthorpe A61 Wombwell Penistone GRIMETHORPE bear right along a sometimes Thurgoland PEAK NATIONAL PARK A633 ROTHERHAM indistinct footpath heading for A616 Hoyland A628 Wortley J36 0 mile 0.5 T Bolton Church. Scale 1 o Barnsley A629 J35A 0 km 0.8 Skirt the edge of the Recreation Waymarked Walk No. 5 M1 A61 SHEFFIELD Ground and fishing ponds Based upon Ordnance Survey mapping with the BRIERLEY to 0 2.5 miles following the lane to Bolton upon Scale permission of HMSO © Crown Copyright. BOLTON UPON DEARNE 0 4 kms BMBC Licence Number 100022264. Phoenix Park, Thurnscoe Dearne Railway Station. Waymarked Walk No. 6 Old Moor Wetlands Centre Waymarked Walks 5 & 6 9 Elsecar was a coal and ironstone mining community 7 Cross the main road using the Pegasus and take the 0 mile 0.5 BOLTON UPON developed in the 1700 and 1800’s by the Earls bridlepath (made from recycled car tyres) leading under Scale Fitzwilliam of nearby Wentworth Woodhouse. Brampton Road to reach the Elsecar branch of the 0 km 0.8 BRIERLEY to B Dearne and Dove Canal. B DEARNE to The Elsecar Heritage Centre is situated on the site of the ELSECAR ELSECAR original Elsecar Colliery Industrial Workshops. There is The canal here supplied water from Elsecar Reservoir a Living History Centre, Craft Shops and Tearooms. into the main canal network and served the many Starting Point History with a Future ... To the north of the Heritage Centre is the Elsecar collieries along its length. Bolton upon Dearne Railway Eastwards of Bolton upon Dearne lie the extensive Newcomen Engine which is an Ancient Monument. It is Dearne Way Station. 8 We now follow the towpath for 2½ miles along the Barnsley Boundary Walk reclaimed WR3 Tip and the Old Moor Wetlands the only one in the world still on its original site and Distance Centre, both transformed from wasteland to stand Elsecar Greenway to Elsecar Heritage Centre. 6 miles (9.7 km). was built by John Bargh of Chesterfield in 1795 at a cost as symbols of an exciting future for the Dearne A6195 Time Valley. of £167.19s.3¾d. It was used to pump water out of Barnsley Trans Pennine Trail Allow yourself half a day or These are important sites for wildlife as well as Elsecar New Colliery which opened in the same year. Marle’s longer to explore Old Moor (West/North) 4 and/or Elsecar. people. Old Moor is managed by the RSPB (Royal A633 T Broomhill Bridge Society for the Protection of Birds) and is the jewel You can travel the mile between the station at Elsecar 3 WR3 Tip Footwear in the necklace of wetland sites along the lower Heritage Centre and the Hemingfield Basin on the Flash Some sections can have wet, o Rotherham PH BOLTON muddy or uneven ground. reaches of the River Dearne. Dearne and Dove Canal by steam train. Choose footwear accordingly. South-west of Old Moor our route enters the BROOMHILL upon The station was built for Earl Fitzwilliam in 1870 and Waymarks Elsecar Greenway to follow a corridor steeped in DEARNE The route is waymarked with social, economic and natural history.