Walk · South Yorkshire

Carr House Meadows

Wharncliffe Side · S35 0EZ

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. 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

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/

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