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2021.04.28 Low Bradfield Post Office SK263.920, NNW past Public Toilets then NE steeply up to Road, then on Rd along edge of Agden Reser., at SK262.928 follow path ~W on N-side of Reser to cross bridge over Agden Dike at SK251.931, follow path ~SW turning ~S across Emlin Dike to join Windy Bank (Rd) at SK249.928 ~W up Road to join Mortimer Rd SW for a very short distance, turn off at SK244.926 & follow wall ~W along Bradfield Moors for under 2km to Shooting Cabins at SK228.928, zig -zag ESE then SSW up to & join at SK230.924Thornseat Road (now a track) & follow ~SE to SK235.920 & turn off on Sheff C.C Permissive FP (not shown on OS map) ~SSW thru Bole Edge plantation, turning ~E at end to join Mortimer Rd at SK227.909, follow M.Rd. ~SW then WNW (to and past Foulstone Rd), but U-turn ~SE up Strines Rd to past Strines PH, join & follow Grouse Butts ~W in OAL, then join & follow Strines Moor Ridge ~SSW, at SK211.895 join Boundary Stone on Strines Edge & follow ~SS down to cross Strines Rd at SK224.885, follow Moscar Cross Rd up E then SSE then ENE passing on N-side of Moscar Cross Farm, at SK235.885 turn off on FP ~NNW, at SK234888 turn in OAL ~ENE towards RUIN on Lodge Moor, ~SE to join Stake Hill Rd., follow St. Hill Rd ~NNE to Wet Shaw Lane and short distance ENE before joining FP ~NNW to cross Hoar Stone Rd, continue on FP~NW down to Blindside Lane following NE then joining Sheffield Country Walk into Low Bradfield - leader John Taylor - Wednesday - 12 walkers.

1 Low Bradfield Cricket Ground

2 The Low Bradfield Post Office - take away tea& coffee service now available as lockdown eased

3 a service which walkers need as do other visitors to Low Bradfield

4 Farm just above the village centre

5 Agden Reservoir embankment wall

6 on the road near Agden Reservoir edge - some of 12 strong group

7 Agden Reservoir

8 duck in reservoir

10 walking along the reservoir edge

13 Agden Bog Nature Reserve

14 Agden Dike flowing into the reservoir seen upstream from bridge

15 Agden Woods - ancient woodlands

16 tea break - party split into two parts. This part close to the site of the demolished original Agden Farm House

17 shy scavenger eating seeds left out for birds - but disappears once people detected nearby

18 entering onto the moor land path from Mortimer Road running toward the Shooting Cabins (hor Grouse Shooting)

19 Damflask Reservoir seen in distance behind walkers going toward Shooting Cabins

21 in middle distance beyond moor land is 'scar' of 'Rocher Rocks'

22 nearing the Shooting Cabins

23 Shooting Cabins and track leading to the Butts

24 heading from Shooting Cabins to Thornseat Road. - Damflask Reservoir seen in distance

26 sheep fields near top of Thornseat Road

28 on Thornseat Road - the road itself doesn't seem to have taken wheeled traffic for some time (ols quarries closed for many years)

29 turning off Thornseat Road onto Sheffield CCPermissive Footpath through Bole Edge Plantation

32 stone seen near end / entrance of Permissive Footpath.

This stone inscribed 'Take off"' is apparently Grade II listed and is situated close to the Strines Inn. It apparently dates from 1770 when Mortimer Road was constructed as a Turnpike Road.

Ian Crawshaw has supplied the following note:

"I remember being shown this same marked stone, on a ramble led by Terry Howard and which has the words 'Take off', marked on it. Terry told me that in the days of heavy bullock or horse drawn carts, this stone was usually to be found at the top of the very steep hill, near to the Strines Inn. However, if the stone was missing from its usual place by the wall at the top of the hill, it would signify that the stone was on another very heavy cart, making its way slowly down to the bottom.

It was of course considered too dangerous, for two such animal driven carts to be on that very steep incline at the same time, in case one lost control during its decent".