Kiveton Park ~ Medium Walk

Distance Covered: 6 miles Time to Complete Walk 3 hours

Suitable for dog walking: Yes

Just outside Sheffield, Kiveton Park Community Woodland is an amazing place for walkers. Featuring Sculptures along the way especially the packhorse sculpture "Dreaming of Sky" you then head through the village of Harthill and then across fields and country lanes and finally beside a canal. A great walk for a sunny Sunday afternoon.

General Safety Tips: Be careful on the road when heading to Thorpe Salvin.

The Kiveton Park Walk

Getting There

Post Code S26 7YT in your satnav which is the Kiveton Community Woodland. Parking is free of charge just off Hard Lane.

Maps of the Kiveton Park walk

The Walk

From the car park turn right and head through the gate and along the path.

At a branch in the path keep left.

Head past some lovely art work on your left and right. 

 

Keep left crossing over a bridge. 

Head up the path that zig-zags to the top on your right.

Arrive at the top and the amazing Dreaming Of Sky sculpture in front of you.

Head on the path to your right which bends to the left.

Keep ahead on the path and follow it downhill.

Turn left and head along the path and when it bends to the left go through a gate on your right. 

Follow the path and emerge on to a field - keep on the path to your left. 

Go past a bridge and then over the second bridge on your left.

Turn right and go through the village of HartHill.

Just before a mini roundabout cross over the road near No 69 and head left up steps along the public footpath. 

Emerging on a road, head across and through a stile.

Keep to the edge of the fields and bend to the right slightly following the waymarked posts.

Head through an open field and through a wooded path.

Emerge from the wooded path onto a country lane. Turn left and head down the lane. 

At the give way sign turn left and head along the road, keeping aware of any traffic.

At the junction turn right in the direction of Thorpe Salvin.

Stay on the side of the road listening for traffic and soon you arrive at Thorpe Salvin. Head left near the church and then left on the road out of the village. 

When you come to the brow of a hill, head right and down a lane. 

Head down the track and over a bridge and beside the railway.

Head to your right through a gate and onto the canal towpath. Follow the path to your right.

Head along the path staying to the left at a fork in the path. 

Passing canal boats on the canal you eventually arrive at a road bridge. Head over the road and through a gate and continue on the canal path. 

Go through a gate and then head along the path emerging into a field.

The path then soon emerges at a gate onto a road and over the road is the carpark you started the walk from.

Kiveton Park

Kiveton Park is located at approximately 53°20′30″N 1°15′30″W, at an elevation of around 330 feet (100 m) above sea level, and is located 8 miles (13 km) west of Worksop, and 11 miles (18 km) south-east of both Sheffield, and Rotherham respectively. It lies on the B6059 road (Station Road) and is served by two railway stations: Kiveton Bridge and Kiveton Park. The Chesterfield Canal lies to the south, while the villages of Todwick and South Anston are to the north and east. Kiveton Park lays claim to being in Rotherham Borough Council, has a Sheffield postcode, a Worksop telephone code, and has the Chesterfield Canal running through it. The village has two railway stations: Kiveton Bridge railway station in the centre of the village; and Kiveton Park railway station.

Kiveton gets its name from the Anglo-Saxon for the settlement in the hollow. In the Domesday Book it is written "Ciuetone", and was under the ownership of William de Warenne.

It subsequently transferred to the de Keuton family, who sold the estate to the heirs of the former Lord Mayor of London Sir William Hewett (of the neighbouring hamlet of Wales, died 1567) in 1580. One of his descendants was Thomas Osborne who became the first Duke of Leeds. He arranged the building of a stately home in the village, Kiveton Hall (also spelled Keveton, Keeton or Keton Hall), in 1698.

The building was demolished by George William Frederick Osborne, 6th Duke of Leeds in 1812, with local legend stating that the demolition was the result of a bet with the then Prince of Wales (subsequently George IV of the United Kingdom).^{[citation needed]} After Kiveton Hall was demolished, Hornby Castle became the main seat of the Dukes of Leeds. The traditional burial place of the Dukes of Leeds was All Hallows Church, Harthill.

A Community History Project has been set up to record and encourage an understanding of the history of Kiveton Park and neighbouring Wales, particularly mining heritage. This was based in the Old Colliery Offices.