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2020.12.17** This walk is in South Yorkshire - a Tiers 3 Covid area. Start at High Bradfield, follow Sheffield Country Walk ~E on road to ladder stile at SK270925, Castle Hill, Cliffe House Farm, Holdworth,  at SK288915 leave rd  ~E  to woods then leave S.C.Walk turning~N, to  pass Spitewinter Farm to Kirk Edge Rd, ~200m E on this rd, then ~N on Coal Pit Lane, to Burnt Hill Lane & skew cross to E, ~N to Coumes Farm, ~W then ~NNW past Coumes Vale (farm), ~NNE thru Coumes Vale Plantation, follow dry stone wall ~NNE to SK293933, Zig Zag ~E towards Ones Acre, ~E on road passing O.Acre to rd junct but take FP ~N ~400m thru fields to SK299938, follow winding rd ~ NNW to Parking Area (the one on E side of Glen Howe), follow Storth Lane ~NNW to rd then ~150m ~W on road to Brightholmlee, before old  barn turn ~NW to More Hall Reservoir, follow path ~W along the South Edge, continue ~150m W past Broomhead Reservoir Embankment, path ~SSW up thru Fox Hill Wood to minor rd Rocher Bottom & cross ~SW turning ~S and up to Walker Edge, follow rd ~W for ~400m, Stile ~S on edge of Walker Edge Farm, follow Drystone Wall southward past White Lee More to cross Penistone Rd & then over high stile, curve ~S/E to the top of Rocher Wood / rocks, ~SE along top of Rocks, V turn ~W then S down to Barn at Bowsen, ~ESE toward Rocher End Brook and follow ~S above it to join FP at SK265930, ~ESE then ~SSW then ~E to Church & High Bradfield - leader Tony Allsopp - Thursday

1 St Nicholas Church lit by the sun before the start of the walk

2 another view of St Nicholas Church before the walk start

3 stocks close to the Church. The wall behind probably built after the stock were no longer used?

4 enlarge to enable reading

5 zoomed into Church from Castle Hill

6 zoomed into Agden Reservoir from Castle Hill

7 some mud about

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11 one fixed and one raise-able roof which probably has't been lifted for many decades

12 in the woods past Holdworth

13 zoomed into Ones Acre a considerable distance ahead of us

14 Coumes Farm with Ones Acre behind and Wharncliffe Woods further behind.

15 rebuilding works at Coumes Vale

16 ancient 'kissing gate'

17 part of Coumes Vale Plantation

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19 closer to Ones Acre

20 Oughtibridge in distance

21 Ones Acre - mentioned in The Doomsday Book

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23 note the huge chimney structure

24 we passed through this gate on way to Glen Howe

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26 before the road leading to Glen Howe

27 Old barn near Brightholme Lee requiring restoration

28 inside part of barn seen as we passwd on way to More Hall Reservoir

29 Moor Hall Reservoir embankment

30 looking towards the reservoir embankment, Wharncliffe Woods behind

31 looking across Moor Hall Reservoir

32 Broomhead Reservoir Spillway

33 Fungi

34 Broomhead Reservoir Embankment

35 looking up Broomhead Reservoir

36 looking down from Walker Edge at the top end of Broomhead Reservoir

37 above Broomhead Reservoir- Ewden Brook which feeds into the reservoir is fringed by trees

38 looking from Walker Edge (road) towards part of Canyard Hills (raised disturbed ground)

39 Penistone Road passing Cowell House - part of a stage of The Tour de France some years ago

40 near reservoir Dale Dike with Strines Reservoir behind. At top Winhill Pike

41 Agden Resedvoir seen from the top of Rocher Rocks

42 looking along Rocher Rocks

43 pat of Agden Reservoir seen with Dale Dike & Strines Reservoir

44 back at St Nicholas Church in High Bradfield

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