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Dog-friendly walks in Elsecar

Boots on. These are the Elsecar walks worth the drive, with lead rules and livestock warnings marked.

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N 176 YD 1.2 MI · LOOP
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Elsecar Park and Reservoir

Elsecar · S74 8ES
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1.2MILES
40mTIME
30mCLIMB
95%OFF-ROAD
Off-lead allowed

A Green Flag park on Armroyd Lane with terraced ornamental gardens dropping to the old canal-feeder reservoir, which is a local nature reserve with a bird hide on its bank. Barnsley Council sets no lead rule here, so the borough dog control PSPO is the whole of the law: clear up at once, carry bags, keep out of the fenced play area. The circuit round the water is level and the climb back through the terraces is the only gradient. Elsecar Heritage Centre and the heritage railway are five minutes away at the bottom of Wentworth Road, so the park and the yard make one outing.

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N 1 MILE 3 MI · LINEAR — PLAN THE RETURN
SOME LIMITS

Trans Pennine Trail: Elsecar to Old Moor

Elsecar · S74 8HJ
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3MILES
1:25TIME
25mCLIMB
95%OFF-ROAD
Off-lead allowed

Three miles of the Trans Pennine Trail running alongside the line of the disused Elsecar branch canal from Elsecar Heritage Centre down the Dearne valley to RSPB Old Moor. It passes the site of Hemingfield Colliery, whose engine house is still standing and occasionally open, and comes out at the edge of the Dearne Valley wetlands. The surface is hard and level the whole way, which makes it one of the few genuinely all-weather walks in the borough, and it is shared with cyclists and horses. Walk it one way and come back on the 226 bus, or turn round at Old Moor for a six mile round trip.

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