Hooton Roberts, Ravenfield Park, Ravenfield, and Thrybergh Country Park

I needed to be back home by mid-afternoon today and so I stayed fairly local for my walk, catching the Sheffield bus to Hooton Roberts and heading south to Ravenfield Park, which many local people call Ravenfield Ponds. I then continued on to Ravenfield using the narrow country lane.

There are no passing places on this road and so the half way line shows at what point which vehicle needs to reverse; it's not very busy here and so this won't happen often.

There's some really quite nice countryside to the south of Ravenfield but not very many paths...and the roads don't have any verges. I consider this to be dangerous so I had to turn to the west and continue to Thrybergh Country Park and did an anti-clockwise half circle to reach the public toilets and cafe. The bus stop for services back to Doncaster is just at the bottom of a short drive.

A shorter walk than I would have liked, but I certainly got back in time for my visitor and with the early start I got to enjoy the best part of the day before it started to cloud over.

York

A trip to York today with Siobhan, my support worker. I've not been to the city with her for several years, although I did go on the train in January to meet my sister and her husband who were visiting from Australia.

The weather was much better than I was expecting, and also much better than the last time I visited the city in January, and so I was able to take a lot more photographs.

I only paid for four hours parking because that was all I could afford; we needed to park near the city centre where it's expensive because Siobhan struggles a bit with walking.

Down in the Don Gorge - Butterbusk, Sprotbrough, and Warmsworth

I caught the bus to Butterbusk, near Conisbrough, and walked down into the Don Gorge and spent some time exploring; it can be quite difficult terrain in places; steep, slippery, uneven, overgrown paths and sheer rockfaces. I headed east towards Sprotbrough and then climbed up through the woodland and returned along the Transpennine Trail alongside the river, continuing on the other bank of the river to Warmsworth to catch a bus for the final two miles back to the town centre.

For some unknown reason someone has dumped a temporary bus stop sign in the undergrowth at the base of the steep path leading up to this cave, I couldn't get close enough to photograph it and I didn't attempt to climb up to the cave.

 

I've just Googled it and the Exon Pride is a 620 ton oil tanker which sails between Hull and Rotherham. Boats up to 700 tons can reach Rotherham and larger boats of a thousand tons can reach Doncaster.