Marr, Sprotbrough, and Butterbusk

There's been a restricted service on the trains today because of a strike and so I'm stuck with the buses. I travelled on the Barnsley bus to Marr and headed south across the fields to Sprotbrough.  I went down into the Don Gorge at Lower Sprotbrough and walked along the high level footpath and then the TransPennine Trail alongside the river until climbing up on to the Conisbrough Viaduct. I walked across it and then caught the bus back to Doncaster from Butterbusk, near to Conisbrough.

When I got off the bus at Marr at the start of the walk I had to wait for several minutes to get across the road; fortunately a lorry driver held back to allow me to get to the other side. There's nothing except the church to photograph at Marr.

It was my first snow of the winter; about an inch had fallen...the ground here is about two hundred feet above sea level, one of the higher parts of Doncaster.

I had to walk along a narrow country road for a few hundred yards because I couldn't follow the alignment of the bridleway - I didn't bother bringing my map today.

A short walk today with better conditions than I was expecting; the toes on my right foot felt like they were on fire though...something I've never experienced before though.