Walk · South Yorkshire

Kiveton Park and Wales Recreation Ground

Kiveton Park · S26 5QY

0.8MILES

22mON FOOT

15mCLIMB

CircularSHAPE

Off-road 90% 10% shares tarmac with cars

Field & moor path 70%Lane & track 20%Road with traffic 10%

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

Kiveton Park and Wales Recreation Ground, between Kiveton Park and Wales, S26 5QY S26 5QY

Parking

Free parking at the recreation ground and on the surrounding streets; the ground car park is for teams on match days, so use the street then. Kiveton Bridge station is under a mile away

Directions to the start →

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.

THE SMALL PRINTRotherham 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: failing to remove dog faeces from land it covers is an offence without a reasonable excuse, with a fixed penalty of up to £100 or a fine not exceeding £1,000 on conviction. It does not apply to registered blind people or those relying on accredited assistance dogs. Rotherham publishes no order requiring leads and none excluding dogs from parks, so there is no lead requirement here; keep off the marked pitches when games are on.

House rules, decoded

Off-lead allowed

REGION · SOUTH YORKSHIRE

GRID · 53.3395, -1.2730

SOURCE · HTTPS://ROTHERHAM.GOV.UK/COMMUNITY-SAFETY-CRIME/PUBLIC-SPACES-PROTECTION-ORDER-BOROUGH-WIDE-DOG-FOULING

Kiveton Park and Wales Recreation Ground

House rules, decoded

Chesterfield Canal towpath from Kiveton Park

Kiveton Community Woodland

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