Walk · South Yorkshire

Penistone Recreation Ground

Penistone · S36 6BS
N 176 YD
0.6MILES
20mON FOOT
10mCLIMB
CircularSHAPE
Off-road 90% 10% shares tarmac with cars
Field & moor path 75%Lane & track 15%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
Penistone Recreation Ground, Bridge End, behind Tesco on Back Lane, S36 6BS S36 6BS
Parking
The free Trans Pennine Trail car park behind Tesco is next to the recreation ground; the Tesco car park itself is for shoppers. Both go early on Thursday, which is Penistone market day
Directions to the start →

Penistone's own park at Bridge End, immediately behind Tesco on Back Lane and next to the Trans Pennine Trail car park and the skate park. It is a short flat circuit of mown grass, pitches and boundary trees rather than a walk in its own right, but it is the obvious warm-up or wind-down at either end of the Trail, and it is the only lit green space in the town centre. The leisure centre and the showground are a few minutes north-west up Thurlstone Road. Everything longer starts from the same car park.

THE SMALL PRINTBarnsley Council's borough-wide dog fouling and control Public Spaces Protection Order came into operation on 1 April 2025 and runs for three years. It requires you to remove your dog's faeces from any open-air land the public may use, to produce the means of picking up when an authorised officer asks, and to 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, and must be on a lead at all times in every Barnsley cemetery. The fixed penalty is £100, or a level 3 fine on conviction. Barnsley has no order requiring leads in ordinary parks, so a dog under control may be off lead here.

House rules, decoded

Off-lead allowed
REGION · SOUTH YORKSHIRE
GRID · 53.5247, -1.6339
SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.BARNSLEY.GOV.UK/MEDIA/1XBBDLXV/PSPO-DOG-CONTROL.PDF
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0.4MILES
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8mCLIMB
90%OFF-ROAD
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