Our drawing of the route — the shape of the walk, not a navigation aid. Carry OS Explorer on the hill.
The smaller and quieter of the pair of reservoirs above Ingbirchworth, half a mile from its bigger neighbour and rarely busy. Yorkshire Water planted the ground around it with native oak and wildflowers, so it holds its interest through the year in a way the bare moorland reservoirs do not. The circuit is about a mile and a half on a mixture of wide surfaced track and narrow paths that Yorkshire Water itself describes as muddy and riddled with tree roots, so it is not a route for a pushchair. Parking is on-street only, on Royd Moor Road.
A mile and a half round a small Yorkshire Water reservoir on the moor edge above Penistone, with the best of it along the nineteenth-century dam wall looking back over the water to the Pennines. There is no car park and no toilet: parking is on-street on Wellthorne Lane in Ingbirchworth village, S36 7GN, which is a narrow lane where residents need to get past. The far half at the shallow western head is grassier and wetter than the dam end. The Fountain Inn is a hundred yards from the parking, which makes this the shortest walk-and-a-pint pairing in the patch.
A fourth-generation family farm on High Lane at Ingbirchworth running a caravan and camping site that has been going since 1980, with a large hook-up field and a smaller enclosed paddock for family groups. Its own site states plainly that it is a dog friendly site, with parking on the pitch, a toilet and shower block, washing up facilities and disabled access. It opens from April to October only, weather depending, and everything is booked online. Ingbirchworth and Royd Moor reservoirs are both within a mile, and the Fountain Inn is in the village.
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