Tickhill village and the millpond

A flat circuit of an old market town, out of the Market Place past the buttercross, down to St Mary's with its fifteenth-century tower, then north up Northgate and back east along Sunderland Street to the millpond, which is the set piece here and always full of ducks. Tickhill Castle is private and there is no public access to the motte, so you look at the gatehouse from Castle Gate and no further; the same applies to the Friary ruins. Everything on the route is council open space or public highway under the Doncaster PSPO, which means a lead on the footpaths round the millpond and a lead in St Mary's churchyard, and dogs out of the fenced play area. It is all pavement and short grass, so it suits a dog that cannot do stiles or rough ground.