Totley, Holmesfield, Mickley, Dronfield Woodhouse, Bradway, Beauchief Abbey, and Abbeydale

I caught the Bakewell bus to the Cross Scythes pub at Totley and headed southeast along the Sheffield Country Walk. After a mile the route turns to the left towards Mickley, however the path wasn't there and it looks like it hasn't been there for a long time. On both my paper Ordnance Survey map, and online, it shows the route going along the edge of Holmesfield Park Wood to the south of Woodthorpe Hall. At the time I thought the Sheffield Country Walk had been re-routed along this section or had been replaced by the Sheffield Round Walk, but I've just checked online and it still exists...but there was no signage at Totley or at the location I'm referring to.

So, I had to continue heading south through the wood to Holmesfield, walk through the village and up the road to Mickley, skirting the edge of Dronfield Woodhouse.

 

I was hoping to resume my original route at Mickley, now no longer along the route of the Sheffielld Country Walk though but I was feeling a bit tired and so chose to keep heading towards Bradway and the shortest route to Beauchief Abbey and the bus stop at Abbeydale. After passing a parade of shops at Bradway the route was rather pleasant going through a wood and the parkland which is used as a golf course.