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Dog-friendly walks in Wombwell

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

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N 176 YD 2.5 MI · LOOP
DOGS WELCOME

Wombwell Wood

Wombwell · S74 9SZ
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2.5MILES
1:20TIME
70mCLIMB
95%OFF-ROAD
Off-lead allowed

A hundred and forty-four hectares of ancient broadleaf woodland between Wombwell, Jump and Worsbrough, held by Forestry England and old enough to appear in Domesday. Paths twist through the trees to a large pond and stream in the middle of the wood, with open glades on the higher ground and bluebells through the middle of spring. Forestry England lists it plainly as dogs allowed and there are no parking charges, which makes it the best free off-lead woodland in this corner of Barnsley. There are no toilets, no cafe and no accessible parking bays, and the paths turn to mud from November onwards.

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N 440 YD 3 MI · LOOP
SOME LIMITS

Wombwell Ings from Old Moor

Wombwell · S73 0YQ
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3MILES
1:35TIME
20mCLIMB
90%OFF-ROAD
Livestock — leads on

Wombwell Ings is the westernmost of the Dearne Valley flashes, a wet grazing marsh in the crook of the River Dove with a public footpath running right round it and a hide on the south side looking over the main flash. The RSPB is explicit that "Dogs are welcome on the rights of way but please do not let them stray from the path", and there are grazing horses on the marsh, so this is a lead walk rather than a run-about. The approach along the Trans Pennine Trail from Old Moor is hard-surfaced and flat; the footpath round the ings itself is grass and can be genuinely wet after rain. There is no car park at the ings, so this is written from the Old Moor car park and back.

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