This is the walk I attempted to do last week when the buses serving my stop went a different route because of a serious traffic accident in the town centre.
Same as last week, the local weather forecast was slightly better than the one for the Peak District today and so I travelled on the bus the distance of seven miles to Hooton Roberts. I walked down into Ravenfield Park and then looped back up to Conisbrough Hill Top.
I passed a house at Firsby which I'm sure used to have a couple of palm trees at the front; they aren't there now though.
There are fishing lakes at the bottom of the valley in Ravenfield park, about 150ft below the level of the entrance lakes. I didn't see that much of the lakes though today because I took a path I've not used before where there are steep steps cut into the hillside to get up to the highest parts.
Firsby Reservoir is disued and is now a nature reserve with many parts quite overgrown. One of the footpaths makes use of the old spillway; the water wasn't very deep.
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