Walk · South Yorkshire

Barnsley Main

Barnsley · S71 1HU

1.3MILES

45mON FOOT

55mCLIMB

CircularSHAPE

Off-road 90% 10% shares tarmac with cars

Field & moor path 55%Lane & track 35%Road with traffic 10%

Our drawing of the route — the shape of the walk, not a navigation aid. Carry OS Explorer on the hill. Off-lead information here is what walkers reported or what signage allows — never our advice. Whether and when a dog is off the lead is the owner’s decision and legal responsibility; keep dogs under control near livestock and follow signs on the day.

Starts at

Barnsley Main headgear, Oaks Lane, Hoyle Mill, Barnsley S71 1HU S71 1HU

Parking

Informal street parking on Oaks Lane only, free, opposite the old mine shaft building; no car park and the lane is narrow

Directions to the start →

Twenty-one hectares of rolling grassland with a fringe of broadleaved woodland on the old Barnsley Main colliery site at Hoyle Mill, with the listed headgear and winding house still standing at the entrance on Oaks Lane. Yorkshire Wildlife Trust's stated dog rule here is simply "On a lead". The bottom of the site is flat with a wide footpath and joins the Trans Pennine Trail directly, but the climb to the top is genuinely steep at about one in five, so pick your route to suit the dog. Parking is informal street parking on Oaks Lane opposite the old mine shaft building; there is no car park.

THE SMALL PRINTYorkshire Wildlife Trust states dogs must be "On a lead" throughout Barnsley Main. Barnsley's borough-wide dog control PSPO applies too: faeces removed immediately, a means of picking up carried, and a lead put on when an authorised officer asks.

REGION · SOUTH YORKSHIRE

GRID · 53.5529, -1.4511

SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.YWT.ORG.UK/NATURE-RESERVES/BARNSLEY-MAIN-NATURE-RESERVE

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