Our drawing of the route — the shape of the walk, not a navigation aid. Carry OS Explorer on the hill.
Six miles of the old Woodhead railway line running west out of Penistone to the mouth of the Woodhead tunnels, on one continuous track the whole way. It leaves the purpose-built Trans Pennine Trail car park behind Tesco on Back Lane, drops past the skate park, and climbs almost imperceptibly all the way out, so the return leg is the easy one. It passes the showground, the Thurlstone crossing, the Millennium Stone and the Bullhouse mine water treatment scheme, then the site of Hazlehead Bridge station and Wogden Foot nature reserve before finishing at Dunford Bridge car park. Only one crossing, at Millhouse Green, puts you on a road with traffic.
A stone hall on Mortimer Road on the southern edge of Penistone, run as a free house with a restaurant in the old conservatory and a public bar at the main entrance. Its own site is specific about where the dog goes: the main entrance public bar, not the restaurant. There is a large car park and grounds, and it sits close to the Penistone end of the Trans Pennine Trail, so it works as the finish of a walk in from Oxspring. It also has bedrooms, but the site says nothing about dogs in them, so ring before you book.
A small community green at Springvale on the eastern side of Penistone, with a refurbished play area, picnic space and a mown path round the grass. Barnsley Council upgraded it under its Love Where You Live programme along with the other Penistone ward greens. It is a five-minute circuit, useful because it sits between the Springvale housing and the Trans Pennine Trail, which you can join a few hundred yards south for the walk to Oxspring. It is a local green, not a country walk.
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.
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