Ingbirchworth · 2 checked
Boots on. These are the Ingbirchworth walks worth the drive, with lead rules and livestock warnings marked.
A mile and a half round a small Yorkshire Water reservoir on the moor edge above Penistone, with the best of it along the nineteenth-century dam wall looking back over the water to the Pennines. There is no car park and no toilet: parking is on-street on Wellthorne Lane in Ingbirchworth village, S36 7GN, which is a narrow lane where residents need to get past. The far half at the shallow western head is grassier and wetter than the dam end. The Fountain Inn is a hundred yards from the parking, which makes this the shortest walk-and-a-pint pairing in the patch.
The smaller and quieter of the pair of reservoirs above Ingbirchworth, half a mile from its bigger neighbour and rarely busy. Yorkshire Water planted the ground around it with native oak and wildflowers, so it holds its interest through the year in a way the bare moorland reservoirs do not. The circuit is about a mile and a half on a mixture of wide surfaced track and narrow paths that Yorkshire Water itself describes as muddy and riddled with tree roots, so it is not a route for a pushchair. Parking is on-street only, on Royd Moor Road.
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