WAGFINDER
Walk · South Yorkshire

Blacka Moor

Totley · S17 3BJ
N 440 YD
3.1MILES
2h 5mON FOOT
135mCLIMB
CircularSHAPE
Off-road 95% 5% shares tarmac with cars
Field & moor path 75%Lane & track 20%Road with traffic 5%

Our drawing of the route — the shape of the walk, not a navigation aid. Carry OS Explorer on the hill.

Starts at
Stony Ridge car park off Hathersage Road (A625), grid reference SK 277 806, above Dore and Totley S17 3BJ
Parking
Free unsurfaced car park at Stony Ridge, room for perhaps twenty cars and full by ten on a bright weekend; the overflow options the Trust itself names are the Piper Lane layby at SK 283 807 and the St
Directions to the start →

One hundred and eighty-one hectares of heather moor, birch scrub and old pasture on the Sheffield side of the city boundary, part of the Eastern Peak District Moors SSSI and owned by Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trust. The Trust's instruction is plain: keep dogs on leads, for the ground-nesting birds and because sheep graze the pastures and cattle have been reintroduced to the heath. Red deer are seen here regularly, which is the other reason a lead matters. The circuit from Stony Ridge car park drops south-east through bracken and birch to Blacka Dike, follows the stream, climbs through the plantation to Strawberry Lee Lane and returns along the moor edge path near Hathersage Road, with several boggy stretches and steep pulls.

THE SMALL PRINTSheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trust: "For the safety of ground nesting birds and other wildlife, please keep dogs on leads." Sheep graze the pastures and cattle graze the heath. The Trust asks for dogs under close control across the whole site during the bird breeding season, 1 March to 31 July. Sheffield City Council has no dog control Public Spaces Protection Order, so this is the landowner's rule, not a fineable order; the only dog offence the council can fine for is fouling, at £50. Camping, barbecues and campfires are not permitted.

House rules, decoded

Livestock — leads on
REGION · SOUTH YORKSHIRE
GRID · 53.3216, -1.5856
SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.WILDSHEFFIELD.COM/RESERVES/BLACKA-MOOR/

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