Distance Covered: 7.5 miles Time to Complete Walk: 3 hours
Suitable for dog walking: Yes
Outside Doncaster, Cusworth Hall and Park offers a fantastic open space and when eventually it reopens, Cusworth Hall will be a great place to visit with its museum and tea rooms. This walk starts from Cusworth Park and then becomes an urban walk, to popular fishing lakes returning on a Roman Road. If you like level paths and a long walk with an urban feel, this walk is for you.
Virus Awareness: No issues along the walk, plenty of passing space. Cusworth Hall and Museum were closed at the time of the walk due to restrictions.
General Safety Tips: The majority of the walk is on secluded urban paths. Walk with a friend if this makes you uncomfortable, and includes walking under a few brief underpasses. All the people encountered along the way had that unique Yorkshire friendliness and no issues arose along the walk. Wear insect repellent as the midges were out in force. On the cycle trail and Roman Road keep aware of cyclists. A few busy roads need to be crossed so be vigilant.
The Cusworth Park Walk
Getting There
From Middlesbrough follow the A19 to the A1M southbound. Follow this to Junction 37. Turn off at junction 37 and take the first right hand turn signed to Cusworth Hall. Follow the road and turn right into the carpark. Parking is free and closes at 9pm
Map of the Cusworth Hall Walk
The Walk
From the car park head towards the information board and signpost for the tea room.
Information Board
Turn right and follow the path ahead continuing ahead at a crossroads.
Follow the path to the right
Go over the crossroads
Follow the path as it passes Cusworth Hall
Cusworth Hall
Follow the path in the direction of the Shrubbery Walk.
Follow the Shrubbery Walk
Follow the path down and branch right towards the lakes.
Turn right to head towards the lakes
Turn right again and follow the path.
Turn right and follow the path
Follow the path ahead
When you come to the lakes, turn right and follow the path around the edge of the lake.
Follow the path to the right
View of the lake
The path follows the edges of the lake - keep on this path.
Follow the path around the lake
When you come to the small bridge on your left, continue on the wider track ahead next to the second lake. Follow this path to an information board on the left.
Follow the track ahead near another lake
Head to the information board
Head towards a house to the right of the information board
Head towards the house
Keep left at a junction on the path.
Follow the path to the left
At a triangular intersection keep right and follow the path ahead.
Turn right at the intersection
Follow the path
Follow the path with a hedge to your right.
Follow the path with the hedge to your right
Keep on the path ignoring a left turn off until you come to the signpost for the Cusworth Cycle Trail.
The Cusworth Cycle Trail
Turn left and follow the cycle trail for while.
Turn left and follow the cycle trail
Walk under an underpass.
Keep ahead at a junction and then later cross over a road and rejoin the path.
Keep ahead
Cross over the road
Emerging onto another road, turn left and follow the pavement on your left
Follow the path on your left
Follow the signpost to the Woodlands to the right and cross over the road.
Signpost for Woodlands
Cross over the road
Follow this road over a roundabout.
Cross over the roundabout
Cross over the road to the pavement on the right.
Cross over to the path on the right
Join the track which passes by housing.
Join the path ahead
Follow the path as it swerves to the right away from the houses.
Follow the track as it swerves to the right
Keep on this path ignoring a track to your left.
Keep on the path
The path eventually comes to another underpass. Go under it.
Go under the underpass
When you come to a junction keep on the right path heading to some fishing lakes.
Keep on the right on the path ahead
Walk past the first fishing lake and turn right when it ends.
Pass the fishing lake
Turn right at the end of the first fishing lake
Turn left taking the lower path passing the second fishing lake.
Turn left and follow the lower path
Keep left at another junction with an old country house above on your right.
Keep on the lower path on the right
Keep ahead at two consecutive crossroads.
Keep ahead at two crossroads
Turn right at a branch in the path.
Keep right at the branch in the path
When you come to a set of boulders and a triangular crossroads keep left.
Boulders on the path
Keep left at the triangular crossroads
Almost straight away take the path to the right which has allotments on its left.
Take the path on the right
Follow the path
Follow the path until you come to a main crossroads.
Keep on the path until the crossroads
Turn sharp left onto the Roman Road
Follow the Roman Road for some time, ignoring any turn offs and cross over a road
Keep on the path ahead
Emerge at the road
Cross over the road and rejoin the path. Follow the path until it emerges again near a school.
Follow the path until it emerges at a school.
Turn right on Wensleydale Road and keep on the pavement until you reach the second turning to your right.
Turn right and follow the pavement
Head to the second right turning
Turn right and then turn first left at the main road
Turn left
Cross the road carefully onto Marvell Road on the other side.
Cross the road onto Marvell Road
Turn left at the shops.
Turn left at the shops
Head to the left of some garages
Head to the left of the garages
Cross over the road into Kempton Park Road and look for a path to your right between houses.
Look for the path to the right on Kempton Park Road
Follow this path for a long period until you come to a marker post in the corner of a field.
Keep on the path
Head to the marker post
Turn left and follow the path through the cornfield.
Follow the path through the cornfield
Emerge onto a road, turn left and cross the road carefully, keeping to the verge and then turn right back into the car park at Cusworth Park.
Turn left onto the road
Follow the road back to the car park
Cusworth Hall and Park
Cusworth Hall is an 18th-century Grade I listed country house in Cusworth, near Doncaster, South Yorkshire in the north of England. Set in the landscaped parklands of Cusworth Park, Cusworth Hall is a good example of a Georgian country house. It is now a country house museum.
The Wrightson family had held the lordship of Cusworth since 1669.
The present house was built in 1740–1745 by George Platt for William Wrightson to replace a previous house and was further altered in 1749–1753 by James Paine. On William's death in 1760 the property passed to his daughter Isabella, who had married John Battie, who took the additional name of Wrightson in 1766. He employed the landscape designer Richard Woods to remodel the park. Woods was one of a group of respected landscape designers working across the country during the 18th century and Cusworth was one of his most important commissions in South Yorkshire, another being at Cannon Hall. Woods created a park of 250 acres with a hanging and a serpentine river consisting of three lakes embellished with decorative features such as the Rock Arch and the Cascade.
The estate afterwards passed to John and Isabella's son, William Wrightson (1752–1827), who was the MP for Aylesbury from 1784–1790 and High Sheriff of Yorkshire for 1819–1820.[3] He was succeeded by his son William Battie-Wrightson (1789–1879), who at various times was MP for East Retford, Kingston upon Hull and Northallerton. He died childless and Cusworth Hall passed to his brother Richard Heber Wrightson, who died in 1891.
The property was then inherited by his nephew William Henry Thomas, who took the surname Battie-Wrightson by Royal Licence and died in 1903. He had married Lady Isabella Cecil, eldest daughter of the 3rd Marquess of Exeter. Between 1903 and 1909 Lady Isabella made further alterations to the house. She died in 1917, leaving an only son Robert Cecil Battie-Wrightson (1888–1952). On his death in 1952, the estate descended to his sister, a nurse who had married a Major Oswald Parker but later was variously known as Miss Maureen Pearse-Brown and as Mrs Pearce. She was obliged to sell the contents of Cusworth Hall in October 1952 to meet the death duties levied at Robert Cecil's death. She subsequently sold the hall to Doncaster Council
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