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Walk · South Yorkshire

Kiveton Community Woodland

Kiveton Park · S26 6RP
N 440 YD
1.8MILES
55mON FOOT
50mCLIMB
CircularSHAPE
Off-road 95% 5% shares tarmac with cars
Field & moor path 40%Lane & track 55%Road with traffic 5%

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
The Collier Road main entrance, Kiveton Park, S26 6RP S26 6RP
Parking
Free roadside parking at the Collier Road entrance and around the estate; the site has open access rather than a dedicated car park. Kiveton Park and Kiveton Bridge stations are both within a mile
Directions to the start →

Open-access community woodland on the reclaimed ground above Kiveton Park, owned by The Land Trust and run with The Conservation Volunteers, with maintained footpaths and an outdoor amphitheatre near the Collier Road entrance used for events including the Kiveton Brass Band Festival. Wildflowers carpet the grassy areas in spring. The ground by the main entrance is flat and easy; the paths further in climb through the young plantations. The Chesterfield Canal towpath is a short walk down the hill, which makes a longer round out of the two together.

THE SMALL PRINTThe Land Trust's own visitor information for this site records "Dogs welcome" under Dogs, with no lead condition and open access at all hours. Rotherham Council's only dog order is The Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council's (Dog Fouling) Public Spaces Protection Order, in operation from 29 January 2025 for three years, which makes it an offence to fail to remove dog faeces; fixed penalty up to £100 or a fine up to £1,000 on conviction. Rotherham publishes no order requiring leads and no order excluding dogs from open space, so there is no lead requirement here.

House rules, decoded

Off-lead allowed
REGION · SOUTH YORKSHIRE
GRID · 53.3344, -1.2682
SOURCE · HTTPS://THELANDTRUST.ORG.UK/SPACE/KIVETON-COMMUNITY-WOODLAND/
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N 880 YD 3.2 MI · OUT & BACK
SOME LIMITS

Chesterfield Canal towpath from Kiveton Park

Kiveton Park · S26 6PD
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3.2MILES
1:35TIME
25mCLIMB
95%OFF-ROAD

The South Yorkshire end of the Cuckoo Way, the towpath of the Chesterfield Canal, walked east from the Canal and River Trust car park just south of Kiveton Park. Dog Kennel Bridge is the first bridge and Kiveton Park station is a few yards from it, so this is an easy one to reach by train from Sheffield or Worksop. East of the bridge the canal drops through a long flight of locks towards Turnerwood and Thorpe Salvin, with information boards on the stone that went from these quarries to build the Houses of Parliament. It is flat, well surfaced and sheltered, which makes it the wet-weather option for anyone based around Dinnington.

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N 176 YD 0.8 MI · LOOP
SOME LIMITS

Kiveton Park and Wales Recreation Ground

Kiveton Park · S26 5QY
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0.8MILES
22mTIME
15mCLIMB
90%OFF-ROAD
Off-lead allowed

The recreation ground between Kiveton Park and Wales village, listed by Rotherham Council among its borough recreation grounds, with pitches, changing facilities and a made path round the outside. It is flat and open with a good view south over the Rother valley. Kiveton Community Woodland is half a mile east and the Chesterfield Canal towpath a similar distance south, so this works best as the parking end of a longer round rather than as the walk itself.

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The Saxon Hotel

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The Saxon Hotel is a pub in Kiveton Park. It is listed here so you know it is there, but we have not yet established whether dogs are welcome — so there is no verdict on this page and no stamp. If it is your business, claim the page and tell us, and we will stamp it.

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