Hooton Pagnell Hall Gardens, Thurnscoe, and Highgate

Another visit to a local property that's participating in the National Heritage Open Days, this time the gardens at Hooton Pagnell Hall. I've visited the village many times, but never the hall or the gardens before. Fortunately a regular bus service goes to the village. 

After looking around the gardens and the village I walked across the fields to Thurnscoe to visit my dad and then continued on to Highgate to catch the bus back home to Doncaster.

This fruit is a quince - someone was googling it as I was there.

Someone was giving a presentation about the history of the house and the estate in the summer house.

Marr, Barnburgh, Harlington, and Conisbrough

It's the first weekend of the National Heritage Open Week scheme. Since I was unable to arrange to go anywhere further afield in the car with my support worker I've decided to plan a short local walk visiting a few properties which will be specifically opened up for the day, or it will be free admission.

I caught the X19 Barnsley bus to Marr and then walked along the winding country road to just beyond Barnburgh Crags where I took a footpath going down to Barnburgh.

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I've never visited the dovecote at Barnburgh, it's located on private land - normally you can't even get up close enough to photograph it.

I've photographed the church many times before but think today might have been the first time I'd been inside. Like as it was at the dovecote there was plenty to see inside, mainly photographs and local history displays about the village.

I walked through the village to Harlington and then down the lane to the River Dearne and joined the TransPennine Trail. I continued for a couple of miles until I reached Conisbrough and climbed up to the castle.

I didn't climb up to the top of the keep, I've done it a couple of times before - it was busy, people were queueing...and I was tired by now,

The final photograph was taken from the bus stop where I would have caught the bus back to Doncaster, but because of the number of parked cars on the narrow streets the buses weren't serving Conisbrough town centre and so I had to walk up to the main road to catch one.

Bakewell, Youlgreave, Alport, and Haddon Hall

A loop walk today from Bakewell, heading south to Youlgreave. Outbound I went directly to Youlgreave accross the fields and along a stretch of road and I returned back towards Bakewell going via Alport. I finished the walk short at the bus stop for Haddon Hall though because I felt a bit out of sorts, tired and achy. After looking at the timetable I was expecting a wait of forty five minutes; there are two buses an hour but they both arrive within a minute of each other. Fortunately the TransPeak bus was running half an hour late and so I had only fifteen minutes to wait...I still had quite a long wait at Bakewell for the bus back to Sheffield though.

Warmsworth to Conisbrough

A hastily arranged walk this morning down in the Don Gorge, one of my favourite local places to go walking. I caught the bus to Warmsworth and then walked along Mill Lane to get access to the gorge by going down the steps at the side of the railway line.

I then just walked upstream for a couple of miles to Conisbrough.

I did a detour into Steetley Quarry, which I've read is going to be used for landfill...that's going to spoil this area.

As I approached Conisbrough Castle I kept taking photographs.

I caught the bus back to Doncaster from Conisbrough town centre, I didn't have too long to wait and there's a seat in the bus shelter anyhow.