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  • Walking
    Activity: Walking
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    Distance: 21.25 km
  • ◔
    Calculated time: 6h 55 
  • ▲
    Difficulty: Not specified
  • ⚐
    Return to departure point: Yes
  • ↗
    Vertical gain: + 306 m
  • ↘
    Vertical drop: - 301 m
  • ▲
    Highest point: 207 m
  • ▼
    Lowest point: 75 m
  • ⚐
    District: Barnsley 
  • ⚑
    Start/End: N 53.550249° / W 1.490582°
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Description

Start the plot by indicating the starting point. If you know the exact car parking situation, please explain how to park.
If we can access the starting point with public transports, please explain the lines to use and share any useful informations.

(S) From here, describe the instructions to follow from the starting point.

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The plot has to end by the location where the walk finishes. If it is a loop please write (S/E) at the end of the description. If it is a one way route write (E).

Waypoints

  1. S/E : km 0 - alt. 113 m - Start on Shaw Lane
  2. 2 : km 0.08 - alt. 114 m - Turn right onto Racecommon Road
  3. 3 : km 0.36 - alt. 127 m - Turn left onto Longcar Lane
  4. 4 : km 0.68 - alt. 131 m - Turn right onto Park Grove
  5. 5 : km 0.71 - alt. 132 m - Turn left onto Charles Street
  6. 6 : km 0.79 - alt. 132 m - Turn left onto Park Grove
  7. 7 : km 1 - alt. 143 m - Turn right onto Park Road, A6133
  8. 8 : km 1.36 - alt. 144 m - Keep left onto Park Road, A6133
  9. 9 : km 1.73 - alt. 148 m - Turn left onto Keresforth Hill Road, B6099
  10. 10 : km 1.76 - alt. 149 m - Turn sharp left onto Park Road
  11. 11 : km 1.77 - alt. 148 m - Keep right
  12. 12 : km 1.77 - alt. 148 m - Turn slight left onto Park Road
  13. 13 : km 1.78 - alt. 149 m - Turn left onto Keresforth Hill Road, B6099
  14. 14 : km 2.75 - alt. 95 m - Turn left onto Gilroyd Lane
  15. 15 : km 3.78 - alt. 84 m - Turn right onto Lowe Lane
  16. 16 : km 5.74 - alt. 161 m - Keep left onto Hood Green Road
  17. 17 : km 8.06 - alt. 204 m - Turn right onto Pinfold Lane
  18. 18 : km 9.77 - alt. 171 m - Turn right onto Coates Lane, B6449
  19. 19 : km 10.53 - alt. 171 m - Turn sharp left
  20. 20 : km 11.49 - alt. 185 m - Turn left onto Maggot Lane
  21. 21 : km 12.39 - alt. 124 m - Keep left onto Blackergreen Lane
  22. 22 : km 13.34 - alt. 110 m - Turn right onto Barnsley Road, A628
  23. 23 : km 13.64 - alt. 100 m - Turn left
  24. 24 : km 14.58 - alt. 163 m - Turn left onto Cone Lane
  25. 25 : km 14.67 - alt. 164 m - Turn left onto Ben Bank Road, B6449
  26. 26 : km 17.8 - alt. 126 m - Turn right onto Barnsley Road, B6449
  27. 27 : km 18.45 - alt. 138 m - Enter roundabout
  28. 28 : km 18.87 - alt. 146 m - Turn right
  29. 29 : km 19.15 - alt. 147 m - Turn left onto Glenmoor Avenue
  30. 30 : km 19.21 - alt. 145 m - Turn right onto Woodland Drive
  31. 31 : km 19.4 - alt. 148 m - Turn slight left onto Woodland Drive
  32. 32 : km 19.51 - alt. 145 m - Turn right onto Broadway, A6133
  33. 33 : km 19.8 - alt. 151 m - Keep left onto Broadway, A6133
  34. 34 : km 20.28 - alt. 145 m - Turn left onto Raley Street
  35. 35 : km 20.87 - alt. 128 m - Turn left onto Racecommon Road
  36. 36 : km 21.17 - alt. 114 m - Turn left onto Shaw Lane
  37. S/E : km 21.25 - alt. 113 m

Useful Information

Always stay careful and alert while following a route. Visorando and the author of this walk cannot be held responsible in the event of an accident during this route.

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Walking Silkstone including Cannon Hall Country Park

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This Barnsley walk starts in Silkstone and includes an old waggonway, the Cannon Hall country park and sections of the Barnsley Boundary Walk and the Penistone Boundary Walk.

Walking Cawthorne Boundary - Part 1

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↔6.40 km ↗+137 m ↘-139 m ◔2h 15 ▲Moderate
⚑Departure from Cawthorne (South Yorkshire)

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Walking Around Cawthorne

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↔5.47 km ↗+123 m ↘-131 m ◔1h 55 ▲Moderate
⚑Departure from Cawthorne (South Yorkshire)

A steady uphill walk across farmland and through woodland providing views in High Hoyland back down towards Cannon Hall and Cawthorne. An easy downhill return across farmland.

Walking Notton to West Bretton Country Park

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⚑Departure from Notton (West Yorkshire)

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Walking Notton and Newmillerdam Circular

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Notton and Newmillerdam Circular
↔9.40 km ↗+64 m ↘-61 m ◔2h 50 ▲Easy
⚑Departure from Notton (West Yorkshire)

This an easy, relatively flat circular walk south of Wakefield. It makes use of a disused railway line and the Newmillerdam Country Park - beautiful woodlands and rolling countryside.

Walking Wortley including Wharncliffe Crags

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↔13.10 km ↗+217 m ↘-217 m ◔4h 20 ▲Moderate
⚑Departure from Wortley (South Yorkshire)

This walk follows a section of the Barnsley Boundary Walk and explores the countryside to the west of this town. The route also includes Wharncliffe Crags which offer some fine views.

Walking Thurgoland Boundary from Oxspring

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↔13.73 km ↗+237 m ↘-241 m ◔4h 35 ▲Moderate
⚑Departure from Oxspring (South Yorkshire)

The Thurgoland Boundary Walk is just under nine miles long and takes in part of the upper Don valley as well as some of the tributaries of the river Dove. The route includes a short section on the old Dove Valley railway above the Silkstone tunnels and the route crosses the old Woodhead rail route twice.

Walking Wentworth Woodhouse and its follies

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↔11.76 km ↗+167 m ↘-165 m ◔3h 50 ▲Moderate
⚑Departure from Barnsley (South Yorkshire)

Barnsley and Rotherham may not be amongst the first places to spring to mind when planning a walk. However the area has many attractive rural locations including one of the country's finest houses, Wentworth Woodhouse, which is passed on this walk. The house featured in the TV series "The Country House Revealed" which visited stately homes not open to the public.

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