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Walk · South Yorkshire

Kilnhurst Ings

Kilnhurst
N 176 YD
1.4MILES
45mON FOOT
10mCLIMB
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.

Starts at
Wharf Road, Kilnhurst, Rotherham — the reserve entrance is about five minutes' walk from the bus stops
Parking
No car park is published for the reserve. On-street parking on Wharf Road and around Kilnhurst is the only option, and it is a working residential street, so park with care
Directions to the start →

A post-industrial washland on the River Don between Kilnhurst and Swinton, rewetted by Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trust into grassland, scrub, hedgerow and scrapes, with the protected remains of Kilnhurst Forge still on the ground. Snipe overwinter on the scrapes in good numbers and kingfishers work the Don along the eastern boundary. Cattle graze the reserve every year from April to October, which is the main reason the Trust asks for dogs on leads. The Trust publishes no car park here; buses 217 and 218 from Rotherham town centre stop on Wharf Road, five minutes' walk away, and that is the practical way in.

THE SMALL PRINTSheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trust: "Please keep dogs on leads and always follow the Countryside Code." Annual grazing takes place on the reserve from April to October. Rotherham has no borough-wide dogs-on-leads order, but the borough-wide Dog Fouling PSPO 2020 applies, in operation from 29 January 2025 for three years, with a fixed penalty up to £100 or a fine up to £1,000 on conviction.

House rules, decoded

Livestock — leads on
REGION · SOUTH YORKSHIRE
GRID · 53.4682, -1.3163
SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.WILDSHEFFIELD.COM/RESERVES/KILNHURST-INGS/
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N 176 YD
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Kilnhurst Ings

S64 5UB
1.4 MI · 45M · 95% OFF-ROAD

A post-industrial washland on the River Don between Kilnhurst and Swinton, turned into wetland by Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trust and now a mosaic of grassland, scrub, hedgerow and mature trees with drains and ditches running through it. It is flat, low-lying ground beside the river and the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation, which means it can be genuinely wet underfoot after rain, and that is the point of a washland. It is a short, level circuit rather than a day out, and it pairs well with the canal towpath running north towards Swinton.

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