Showing posts with label Highfields Country Park. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Highfields Country Park. Show all posts

Sunday, January 31, 2021

Walking To My Nearest Trigpoint

I spent a few minutes resarching this online, and my nearest trigpoint turned out to be where I thought it would be, at Pickburn, about five miles from where I live. By the way, a trigpoint is a low, pyramidal concrete pillar used for surveying by the Ordnance Survey many decades ago. 

After walking through the town centre I used a stretch of the Doncaster Greenway. There are several railway themed benches installed at various locations along the network of trails; I photographed two of them today.





I reached Highfields Country Park and then Brodsworth Community Woodland. 










The location of the trigpoint as at the side of the road at the start of the bridleway that goes to Hooton Pagnell. I've been a bit suspicious that this has always been the location of the pillar though, it looks as if it's just been dropped there after possibly being moved from another location.






I continued beyond the trigpoint, dropped down into Brodsworth and then walked along the country road which would get me back to town as quickly as possible.






After a few hundred yards there was a footpath sign, this was the start of a path I'd not used before; that always adds a bit of extra interest to a walk. I walked through a wood at the back of the houses on Green Lane and then joined the cycleway which goes along the Roman Ridge to within less than two miles from the town centre.






UPDATE: Here's the map showing the location of the Stirling Single bench that Richard asked about in his comment.






Sunday, November 22, 2020

Brodsworth Community Woodland, Doncaster Minster, And The Canal Basin

Another walk out to Brodsworth Community Woodland, taking my regular route along Doncaster Greenway and returning along the Roman Ridge.

This footbridge over the dual carriageway is before the start of the Greenway, an abandoned railway line that's been re-purposed as a cycleway and footpath.



I sat and ate my sandwiches enjoying this view at Highfields Country Park before continuing on to Brodsworth Community Woodland.



It was busy at the community woodlands, I noticed that the car park was almost full.








It was still sunny when I got back to the town centre and so I walked down to the minster and the nearby canal basin to take some pictures.