Our drawing of the route — the shape of the walk, not a navigation aid. Carry OS Explorer on the hill.
Five miles of former Great Central railway running south-east from Penistone to Wortley, entirely off-road apart from one access track to cross about halfway. From Penistone to Thurgoland there is a strip of tarmac down the middle, and from Thurgoland to Wortley the surface turns to compacted stone that goes muddy through Wortley cutting; a grass strip runs alongside for horses. It passes the Oxspring split where the trail divides, the Thurgoland tunnels, and the branch down to Wortley Top Forge. Cote Green car park at Finkle Street is the far end, next to the Pennine Equine livery, and the pubs and cafes in Wortley and Thurgoland are a short step off the trail.
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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