Walk · South Yorkshire

Cantley Park to Sandall Beat

Doncaster · DN4 6HD

2.7MILES

1h 20mON FOOT

25mCLIMB

Linear — plan the returnSHAPE

Off-road 80% 20% shares tarmac with cars

Field & moor path 55%Lane & track 25%Road with traffic 20%

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

Cantley Park car park, off Middleham Road, DN4 6HD DN4 6HD

Finishes at

Sandall Beat Wood, at the eastern rides near the Armthorpe boundaryLinear — plan how you get back

Parking

Free council car park at Cantley Park; it takes the overflow when the Sandall Beat Road car park at the far end fills up, and is rarely full itself outside junior football mornings

Directions to the start →

The council's own three and a half mile trail from Cantley Park north through the edge of the housing and into Sandall Beat Wood, which links the two biggest green spaces on the east side of Doncaster in one go. Cantley Park itself has woodland, a pond, a pitch and putt course that costs nothing if you bring your own clubs, and a skate park; the trail leaves it and works north across Sandall Beat Road into the wood. Under the Doncaster PSPO the lead goes on for the footpath round the Cantley Park pond and dogs stay out of the fenced play areas, but the rest is open. There is parking at Cantley Park itself, which Sandall Beat's own small car park often lacks by mid-morning at a weekend.

THE SMALL PRINTDoncaster's dog control PSPO applies to all council open space: dogs must be on a lead on all footpaths around lakes and ponds and in cemeteries and churchyards, must be kept out of fenced children's play areas signed as dog exclusion areas, and must be leaded on council sports fields when in use for an organised authorised event. You must pick up and be able to produce a bag on request. £100 fixed penalty.

House rules, decoded

Off-lead allowed

REGION · SOUTH YORKSHIRE

GRID · 53.5186, -1.0759

SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.DONCASTER.GOV.UK/SERVICES/CULTURE-LEISURE-TOURISM/CANTLEY-PARK

Cantley Park to Sandall Beat

House rules, decoded

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