Route Directions MoreM re HallHalll Scale 1 Start at Glen Howe Car Park next to play ground. Reservoir 0 100 500 metres Follow the tarmac track, past toilets and Glen Howe Ew de 0 1/4 mile Tower, going towards the narrow Pack Horse Bridge. n B eck Wilkin Wood 7 More Hall Plantations The Pack Horse Bridge is one of the best and 8 Lee Wood N n oldest examples of its type. Dating from 1734, it was o D originally found in Edwen Valley. When works began r e v Carr House To i on the reservoirs there, Joseph Dixon paid for it to be A6102 R Meadows wnfield Lane moved, stone by stone to Glen Howe Park. T h o rn 2 Do not cross the Pack Horse Bridge, but follow H ou Brightholmlee se the left trail uphill. Take the path on the right before La e n e n the timber shelter and cross the stone stile on the a 9 L SSpout House d edge of the wood. Wood u B Eaton Glen Howe Park was owned by local stone mason John House Wharncliffe Mills, who used it as a pleasure garden. With the support Side of Joseph Dixon, owner of the local paper mill, the whole 6 site was given to the people of Wharncliffe Side in 1917. d a o New Lathes Swinnock R e Hall e l 3 Follow the route of the Public Footpath along the m 10 l o h side of this field. At the narrow lane, head towards t h g ri B Benteholme Farm. Tinker Brook 5 4 Keeping left of the farm; walk up the driveway until House Tinker B rook you reach the Public Footpath stile on your right. Walk Benteholme across this field and head upstream, cross the foot 2 1 4 Glen Howe Park bridge, walk past Tinker Brook House and take a right 3 Glen Howe Tower onto Brightholmlee Road. Key KEY 5 Head down this road until reaching New Lathes on Heritage trail and direction 1 your right. Turn left onto Eaton House drive. Take the first Viewpoint right down Bud Lane sign posted as Public Bridleway. House/farm Access Land Boundary (Continues overleaf) Nature Reserve Woodland Parking Bus stop (for more information www.travelsouthyorkshire.com) Bridge Photograph by: David Bocking Photograph by: David Bocking Pack Horse Bridge, Glen Howe Carr House Meadows Brightholmlee www.stonetosteel.org.uk NO. 2 of 6 Steel Valley Heritage Trails Exploring Heritage Trail Route Directions continued... Stone to Steel Area Map Glen HoweThe Upper Don Valley 5 of 6 6 Climb the ladder stile on your left to enter Carr and More Hall House Meadows. Follow the path towards the small Midhopestones Midhopestones Explore Glen Howe Park and a stream and head down the hill towards More Hall 4 1 A616 Manchester Road 4 historic hamlet on country roads A616 A616 Reservoir Plantations, crossing the road. 1 Manchester Road 2 A616and footpaths with some stiles Stocksbridge 2 A629 Carr House Meadows Nature Reserve is one of the Deepcar Stocksbridge Distance: about 5 km / 3 miles A6102 last surviving ancient hay meadows in the area. A629 Summer is the best time to see the fantastic shows 1 3 Deepcar 2 Heritage Leaflets of rare flowers that were once so familiar in our A6102 3 Manchester Road countryside. See www.wildsheffield.com 1 Town Heritage Trail 3 4 Wharncliffe 2 Side 5 Bolsterstone to 6 Midhopestones 5 7 Entering More Hall Plantations turn right on to the Langsett Grenoside Manchester Road 3 Parsonage Farm and Road path, heading towards the reservoir. Follow the upper Townend Common 6 4 Forge, Crags and Heath Oughtibridge Wharncliffe trail round to the right heading through the woodland. Worrall Side 5 Glen Howe and More Hall 5 Sheffield Corporation started the Ewden Valley reservoir 6 Oughtibridge Rambles Langsett Grenoside scheme in 1913, building More Hall and Broomhead Road Reservoirs, to provide water for the rapidly growing Four Heritage Handbooks Available 6 industry and populations of Sheffield. Oughtibridge Patterns in the Landscape, Getting Around and About, Steel Worrall Valley Life and Hidden Treasures. All are available to download 8 Leaving the woods, cross the meadow to follow from the Stone to Steel website: www.stonetosteel.org.uk Town Field Lane to Brightholmlee. Pass through village to take the first right on to the main road. Stone to Steel is a project celebrating 10,000 years of human history in the Upper Don Valley. It is a Mentioned in the Domesday Book, Brightholmlee is partnership between the Steel Valley Project, South one of the oldest settlements in the area and thought Yorkshire Forest Partnership and Sheffield City Council to have early medieval origins. Look out for the guide that covers an area of approximately ten square miles stones; these were built before roads, to help travellers around Stocksbridge. It encompasses the towns and navigate in isolated areas. villages of Stocksbridge, Midhopestones, Wharncliffe Side, Oughtibridge, Bolsterstone, Deepcar and Grenoside. 9 Take the first left to Bradfield, marked by a Stone to Steel is funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund. guide stone to Edgemount. Then take the road on your left, towards Swinnock Hall. For more information and to find out about volunteering please visit our website at: www.stonetosteel.org.uk 10 Follow Public Footpath to enter the field and or email us at: [email protected] follow wall. Before Glen Howe Park, head down Alternatively write to us at: Steel Valley Project, to the field’s left hand corner to re-enter Glen The ARC, Manchester Road, Stocksbridge, S36 2DT Howe Park. Follow the path down over the bridge to the Car Park. www.stonetosteel.org.uk.