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2022.11.16 Walk - Wednesday, – Start Elsecar Station (SE.381:003), leave Stn to N & turn W along High Street then ~WSW on Millhouses Street, at ~SE.377:004 turn off ~S on ‘track’ to cross over Railway Bridge at ~SE.377:001 and then SSE on S H Track? to cross Armroyd Lane at SK.378:998 & continue on Skiers Hall Track ~S to Burying Lane at SK.378:991 & then 300m ESE along it to join Mill Lane ~SSW for ~400m (to the Mill?) and turn off on FP ~ESE then SSW to pass Almshouses and join TPT ESE to just past School, turn N to the ‘old’ Wentworth Church (look around & tea break). Return to TPT and follow it ESE past ‘new’ church and to the War Memorial at the junction of Hague Lane & the B6090 and follow this road ~ENE for about 300m to the road/path ‘entrance’ at SK.392:981 of Wentworth.

Go ~ESE on road passing the Stables then Wentworth Woodhouse (House) and continue on track roughly SE (passing some distance away from) the Deer Park, The Doric Temple, (Deer Shed & Peacock Lodge – unseen) to the junction with Roman Ridge Dyke at SK.408:965 (~2.2km from ‘entrance’). Turn off road here and take FP ~NE towards but short of The Mausoleum (fenced off), then E then ESE to ‘an extension south’ of Stubbin Road. Follow Stubbin Road a short distance turning off at SK.419:971 on FP ~E to Upper Haugh thenNNE up Chapel Walk to join Haugh Road at SK427:973 & follow it ~W then NW back to Stubbin Rd. ~100m NNE then at Low Stubbin turn ~W / WNW along fields to cross (for a second time) Roman Ridge Dyke at SK.414:980 then NW (part thru wood) on to Hoober (farms & houses) on B6090 Rd & W along road for ~250m, to join at bend, Street Lane WNW for ~250m, turn N up field boundary to HOOBER STAND SK.407:985 (lunch break). ~W on FP thru Woods and fields to re-join Street Lane at SK.403:986. WNW passing the Village of ‘Street’ and continuing to, then across road (passing 'fever stone' near road edge) then WNW for 150m along the North side of Lee Wood before turning in S to Needles Eye. Return to FP and continue roughly NW down to The Elsecar Heritage Centre. Coffee Break then follow Fitzwilliam Street ‘bending’ but roughly ~NNW about 650m back to Elsecar Station.


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4 The 'new' Wentworth Church in the distance

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7 notice about Elsecar Reservoir Local Nature Reserve - passed but not visited

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11 a mill

13 Wentworth 'old' Church - square tower to left. The 'new' church is spire to right

16 mill but whicxh one?

17 Sloeberries?

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22 The C o E infants and junior school before passing both churches

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23 closer up to the 'new' church

24 The 'old' church

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31 windblasred beyond recognition over the centuries

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38 interesting English - written in in 1781

39 an Erhnic Chinese - CHOW KWANG-TSEAY - a Christian convert

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41 Housekeeper (died 1769) to The Marquis of Rockingham. See picture 112 & 107 probably the same Marquis who built Hoober Stand in 1748

45 in 1670 splitting of name possibly common place RAL gap PH?

46 looking back at the 'new' church

48 a woodland in the midsts of fields

51 have just crossed the road (from the avenue to the churches in the new picture 52). We are heading towards the main entrance to Wentworth Woodhouse

52 The avenue to the 'new' and 'old' churches

55 farm buildings just before the entrance into Wenrworth - what was originally behind the arched entrances?

56 yet another windmill - several in this general area - not known when they stopped working and why?

60 The stables for Wentworth Woodhouse

62 Keppel's Column (near Thorpe Hesley) zoomed into.

63 Wentworth Woodhouse

68 Wentworth Woodhouse - the full front view

71 The Mausoleum - not clear if the needles are the same level at top or deliberately skewed - see picture 85

72 Doric Temple?

74 a large stage in this herd

78 paths / roads are common use in places on the Estate

82 Church at Greasbrough to left?

85 taken from footpath towards the Mausoleum but no entrance to it here (fenced off)


89 seem to be more than 4 'needles' around the Mausoleum - one seen here - heights and top levels may vary?

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98 houses before just joining Stubbin Road

99 The Autumn Fall

100 on FP to Upper Haugh

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107 Hoober Stand

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115 Hoober Stand is triangular in shape

116 'telescope not far from Hoober Stand

119 Street (village) ahead

121 heading toward Street (Village)

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126 Keppels Column on Skyline

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130 The Needles Eye seen roughly from the road - possibly some clearance of trees has made this view now possible

139 a 'fever stone' near the road edge - same period as the Eyam Plague. Vinegar was contained at top to cleanse 'infected coins' placed there to pay for goods - information given by local farmer

132 The Needles Eye - apparently built to allow a carriage to pass through 'the eye of a needle' and thus win a wager

134 Needles Eye

135 close up of group

141 a view again of Wentworth 'new' Church as we passed above it towards Elsecar

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143 Hoyland ahead of us.