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2018.01.17 Grenoside (Main Street / Norfolk Hill), Main Street, then ~E into Greno Gate Road to swoop thru Greno Wood, up to Bar House on Woodhead Rd, ~250m N on Rd, then ~W into Wharncliffe Chase and head (parallel to Woodhead Rd)  for Chase Lodge & then north Chase boundary, E for ~ 100m then follow track ~ NNW thru Moorside Farm to tunnel under A616 Rd at ~ SK303988, FP ~NE up south of churchyard to Wortley, (lunch under tree with benches), U turn & pass north of Church then west down to Trans Pennine Trail, ~S on Trail and under A616 Rd at SK297989, small dam at ~SK297982, up to Wharncliffe Crags and then ~SSE along it, Wharncliffe Lodge, re-enter Chase and exit on south boundary at SK317951, track ~ E to car park on Woodhead Rd, ~SSE thru Greno then Wheata Woods back to Grenoside - leaders Margaret Brown & Anne Vickers - Wednesday - round walk about 12 miles

party coming up from bus stop on A61 road (85 bus had been rerouted from Grenoside Main Street due to slushy snow on it)

leaders briefing

note slushy snow on roads

heading north down main street (turned right down Greno Gate Road) shortly after the Old Red Lion

into Greno Wood

many new direction signs but not sure all maps show the locations pointed to?

cleared snow off a log seat for tea break

Woodhead Road (Bar House just behind us) - Hallfield Head Farm in front. We walked ~250m North down road before turning into Wharncliffe Chase.

heading towards Chase Lodge

zoomed into High Green below

Chase Lodge

looking towards bank on north side of Stocksbridge valley

heading towards north boundary of Wharncliffe Chase

heading towards Moorside Farm

passing Wharncliffe Reservoir

Moorside Farm buildings ahead

zoomed in to Wortley our lunch time destination - St Leonards Church and it graveyard is clearly seen

Stocksbridge Bypass ahead - we turned down to right
tunnel under bypass
Sycamore Farm behind us?
Wortley Rugby Union Football Club (Rugby League starts further North)
Footpath passing through terraces just at Wortley
St Leonards Church - How did the name of a monk living in France in the reign of Clovis (465-51]) come to be given in the 1200s to a small church in the West Riding of Yorkshire?
The Wortley Arms
some existing windows changed into 'trompe l'oeil'

Wortley Club

benches round tree in Wortley convenient for a lunch stop

down on another side of the church

through another tunnel (on the Trans Pennine Trail) under the Stocksbridge bypass

Small dam (a pond on some maps)

Stocksbridge bypass visible

up to Wharncliffe Crags

Deepcar & Stocksbridge seen from Wharncliffe Crags

More Hall Reservoir in front and Broomhead Reservoir behind seen across valley (with Manchester Road and River Don unseen below)

Wharncliffe Side - a village seen below

Wharncliffe Lodge in view top right

afternoon tea break

passing Wharncliffe Lodge

Reputedly built as a hunting lodge by Sir Thomas Wortley in 1510

barn next to 'lodge'

in Wharncliffe Chase

leaving Wharncliffe Chase into Wharncliffe Wood

up towards parking area on Woodhead Road

near Parking Area

no off road motor bikes permitted in Wharncliffe Woods

back towards Grenoside

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