After a few walks going West on the TPT, yesterday we had a walk that took us a bit to the east(ish).
Having previously walked east along the Longdendale valley and beyond the Woodhead Tunnels to Dunford Bridge and Penistone, I was keen to join up our TPT walking with North Sheffield. We therefore started our walk at Penistone.
The first section of the route goes parallel with the current Sheffield to Huddersfield line. The old locomotive turntable is now rather overgrown and a little further along a WW2 tank ramp can be seen. This ramp was used to load tanks onto trains.
At Oxspring the current line and the disused line of the walk diverge. After a while we reached the Thurgoland tunnel about 300 yards long. We continued onto Wortley and a spot of ice cream for late 11s at a local farm. Just across a field and round the corner on the main road it was Pie Day at the Wortley Arms and it seemed churlish not to try any.
After an excellent lunch we walked across Wortley Hall Park and into West Wood Country Park. We were making good progress and met our friends Gwen and Peter at the Bridge Inn near Chapel Town in time for tea and cake at their house.
It was a lovely walk and felt just like a day on LEJOG although it was of course Autumnal.
I’ll leave the closing prayer to Lisa who made this banner for me from words used on my LEJOG blog.
JAL 16.10.2019
Penistone to Chapeltown on the TPT