Walk · South Yorkshire

Ulley Country Park

Ulley · S26 3XL

1.7MILES

55mON FOOT

45mCLIMB

CircularSHAPE

Off-road 95% 5% shares tarmac with cars

Field & moor path 60%Lane & track 35%Road with traffic 5%

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

Ulley Country Park car park, Pleasley Road, Ulley, Rotherham S26 3XL S26 3XL

Parking

Pay and display at the Pleasley Road car park, charged twenty-four hours a day every day of the year; it fills on fine Sunday mornings, and Reservoir Road and Ulley Lane carry no-waiting restrictions

Directions to the start →

A twelve hectare reservoir in the valley of Ulley Brook between Aughton and Ulley village, five miles south-east of Rotherham, with a made path right round the water and a sailing club on the north bank. The reservoir is fished under Rotherham Council permits and the far bank is quiet enough for herons and grebes. Parking is charged twenty-four hours a day, every day, at the Pleasley Road car park, which is the only sensible way in — Reservoir Road and Ulley Lane carry waiting restrictions. The circuit is level apart from the pull up from the dam at the western end.

THE SMALL PRINTRotherham Council publishes no site-specific dog rule for Ulley Country Park, and there is no borough-wide dogs-on-leads order. What applies is the borough-wide Dog Fouling PSPO 2020, in operation from 29 January 2025 for three years: failing to remove dog faeces from land covered by the order is an offence, fixed penalty up to £100 or a fine up to £1,000 on conviction, with an exemption for registered blind people and users of accredited assistance dogs. The lead requirement in the Town Centre and Clifton Park PSPO 2025 does not reach this far out of town. Sheep and horses graze the fields either side of the reservoir path.

House rules, decoded

Off-lead allowed

REGION · SOUTH YORKSHIRE

GRID · 53.3789, -1.2938

SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.ROTHERHAM.GOV.UK/COMMUNITY-SAFETY-CRIME/PUBLIC-SPACES-PROTECTION-ORDER-BOROUGH-WIDE-DOG-FOULING

Ulley Country Park

House rules, decoded

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