Sheffield Country Walk
A 53-mile long-distance path circling the city of Sheffield. Highlights include Eckington Park, Cook Spring Wood, Woodthorpe Hall, Burbage Rocks, Stanage Edge, Strines Reservoir, Low Bradfield, High Bradfield, Rocher Bridge, Birkley Edge, Greno Wood, Ecclesfield Common, Attercliffe Hill Top, Rother Valley Country Park, and Killamarsh. With map, statistics, and GPX route file.
Statistics and Files
Grid Ref: SK 434 798
Distance: 53 miles (85 km)
Time: 20–26 hours
Duration: 3–5 days
Ordnance Survey Explorer Maps (1:25,000):
OL1 The Peak District – Dark Peak Area
OL24 The Peak District – White Peak Area
269 Chesterfield and Alfreton
278 Sheffield, Barnsley and Rotherham
Summary
The Sheffield Country Walk is a long-distance footpath which takes a varied route around the outskirts of the city and on its course passes many sites and buildings of archaeological, historical, and industrial interest. It follows woodland and riverside paths, crossing undulating farmland and the open gritstone moorlands to the west of the city.
From the nominal start at the junction of Sheffield Road and Rotherham Road near Eckington, the route follows a clockwise course, visiting Eckington Park, Twelve Acre Wood, Bowercinder Hill, Birleyhay, Troway, Cook Spring Wood, Dronfield, Dronfield Woodhouse, Mickley, Woodthorpe Hall, Totley, Totley Moor, Fox House Inn, Burbage Bridge, Burbage Rocks, Upper Burbage Bridge, High Neb, Stanage Edge, Lodge Moor, Sugworth Edge, Strines Reservoir, Dale Dyke Reservoir, Low Bradfield, High Bradfield, Holdworth, Worrall, Middlewood, Rocher Bridge, Birkley Edge, Stubbing House Lane, Whalejaw Hill, Greno Wood, Burcross, Horbury Common, Ecclesfield Common, Butterthwaite, Woolley Wood, Meadowhall, Attercliffe Hill Top, Catcliffe Flash Nature Reserve, Treeton Dyke, Hail Mary Hill Wood, Woodhouse Washlands Nature Reserve, Rother Valley Country Park, Netherthorpe, and Killamarsh.