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Walk 1523 - printer friendly version

Broomhead Moor & Ewden Beck Walk

Author - Andy Chaplin

Length - 6.0 miles / 9.8 km

Ascent - 700 feet / 212 metres

Grade - easy/mod

Start - OS grid reference SK241962
Lat 53.462 + Long -1.6384809
Postcode S36 3ZA (approx. location only)

This is another Peak District walk close to the western outskirts of Sheffield that explores some of the valleys that run eastwards towards the Don - in this case the Ewden Beck. There is off-road parking for about 10 cars opposite Broomhead Hall on Mortimer Road at grid ref. SK241962.

From here take Bradfield Path no. 4 towards Ewden Beck. Keep on the moors track, rather than taking the footpath off to the right, and carry on along the southern side of the Ewden Beck valley. After a mile and a half you will pass a shooting lodge, the path turns to the south then you walk past 8 grouse butts.

At this point the moor track ends and you need to follow a faint path heading south east along Rushy Dike. If in doubt keep high & to the left of the dike. After a quarter of a mile you will see and then meet the Dukes Road path more or less at the point that it crosses the dike.

Turn left on the Dukes Road from which you can see down the Agden Dike valley to the Agden Reservoir. At Mortimer Road turn left then right on Bradfield Path no. 10 which goes down and past Old Booth Farm to Lee Lane. Cross the road onto a new bridleway (since 2014) and descend down through the woods to Rushy Lane - and old road that is now a bridleway.

Turn left on Rushy Lane then left on Allas Dike Lane - another old road and current bridleway - that heads through the woods towards Allas Lane. Just before reaching Allas Lane, go left then right through the trees to Wigtwizzle - site of Wigtwizzle Hall until 1923 - turn right on the road then off left on Bradfield Path no. 99.

The footpath crosses the track to Broomhead Hall - the old hall was demolished in 1980 - goes over the bridge, passes markers in the field then goes to the right of Broomhead Hall before going left around the farm and out on the Hall road to the car parking on Mortimer Road.

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