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Walk · South Yorkshire

Carr House Meadows

Wharncliffe Side · S35 0EZ
N 440 YD
2.7MILES
1h 40mON FOOT
120mCLIMB
Out & backSHAPE
Off-road 70% 30% shares tarmac with cars
Field & moor path 45%Lane & track 25%Road with traffic 30%

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

Starts at
Wharncliffe Side village, on the A6102 north of Oughtibridge, walking up towards Carr House Lane S35 0EZ
Parking
On-street in Wharncliffe Side only. The Wildlife Trust states that parking on Carr House Lane is inadvisable because the lane is very narrow, and asks visitors to park in the village instead, which ad
Directions to the start →

A patchwork of flower-rich hay meadows perched above the Ewden Valley outside Wharncliffe Side, one of the few surviving pieces of unimproved grassland on the moorland fringe and a Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trust reserve. It is grazed, and the Trust's dog rule here is explicit about why: dogs are permitted but must be on a lead because there may be grazing animals on site. Carr House Lane runs through the middle of the reserve and is a genuinely narrow winding lane where the Trust asks people not to park at all. Leave the car in Wharncliffe Side and walk up. Best in June and July when the meadows are in flower.

THE SMALL PRINTSheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trust for Carr House Meadows: "Dogs are permitted on the reserve but must be kept on a lead as there may be grazing animals on site." The Trust also asks generally that dogs are on leads during bird breeding season, March to August. Parking on Carr House Lane itself is expressly discouraged by the Trust because the lane is too narrow. Sheffield has no dog control PSPO, so this is the landowner's rule.

House rules, decoded

Livestock — leads on
REGION · SOUTH YORKSHIRE
GRID · 53.4539, -1.5763
SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.WILDSHEFFIELD.COM/RESERVES/CARR-HOUSE-MEADOWS/
Also in Wharncliffe Side
N 176 YD
Walk SOME LIMITS

Glen Howe Park

S35 0DQ
1.2 MI · 40M · 95% OFF-ROAD

A Victorian pleasure ground in a wooded ravine below Wharncliffe Side, laid out by the Marsden paper-mill family and now on Sheffield City Council's list of local green spaces. There are rhododendrons, a packhorse bridge, an ornamental drinking fountain and a stream running the length of it, which makes it feel much larger than its forty-odd acres. The paths are rough and rooty and the sides are steep. It sits between the A6102 and the Ewden Valley, so it pairs with More Hall and Broomhead for a longer day.

Off-lead OK
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