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Walk · South Yorkshire

Manor Park, Silkstone

Silkstone · S75 4NE
N 176 YD
0.5MILES
15mON FOOT
10mCLIMB
CircularSHAPE
Off-road 90% 10% shares tarmac with cars
Field & moor path 80%Lane & track 10%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
Manor Park, off Manor Road, Silkstone, S75 4NE S75 4NE
Parking
Free on-street parking on Manor Road; there is no car park. Silkstone village streets are narrow and busy at school times
Directions to the start →

Silkstone's village park off Manor Road, a small green with a refurbished play area, a path round the edge and open views west up the Silkstone valley. It takes ten minutes to walk round, so it is the local dog walk rather than a destination, but it sits a few hundred yards from the start of the Silkstone Waggonway and works as the parking end of that route when the Cross is full. Barnsley Council refurbished the play equipment here under its Love Where You Live programme.

THE SMALL PRINTBarnsley Council's borough-wide dog fouling and control PSPO, in operation from 1 April 2025 for three years, applies: remove the faeces, carry and produce the means to pick up when an authorised officer asks, and put the dog on a lead when an authorised officer directs. Dogs must not be taken into any fenced or enclosed children's play area signed as a dog exclusion area, which covers the play area here, and must be on a lead in every Barnsley cemetery. Fixed penalty £100 or a level 3 fine on conviction. Barnsley has no general lead requirement in parks.

House rules, decoded

Off-lead OK
REGION · SOUTH YORKSHIRE
GRID · 53.5450, -1.5669
SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.BARNSLEY.GOV.UK/MEDIA/1XBBDLXV/PSPO-DOG-CONTROL.PDF
Also in Silkstone
N 880 YD
Walk SOME LIMITS

The Silkstone Waggonway

S75 4JN
2.5 MI · 1H 20M · 90% OFF-ROAD

The line of a horse-drawn waggonway begun in 1809 by the Barnsley Canal Navigation Company to carry Silkstone coal down to Barnby Basin at Cawthorne, now a walking and cycling route of about two and a half miles. Many of the original stone block sleepers are still in the ground along it. The route passes Nabs Wood and the Huskar memorial to the twenty-six children drowned in the pit there in 1838, crosses the A628 and runs on through Silkstone Fall woodland past the scout camp. It starts at Silkstone Cross in the village and finishes at Pot House Hamlet on the Cawthorne road, which has a cafe.

Off-lead OK Livestock — leads on
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