Burghwallis Three Pubs Walk
Grade: Easy going on level surface but ideally needs some stout footwear when wet, can get a little muddy and wet and stuff; great for kids, dogs and young at heart to splash in puddles.
Location: Burghwallis – Openspace
Circular 4.5 mile walk which by shear coincidence takes in three pubs.
Start: Park your car in the Burghwallis pub off Scorcher Hills Lane. The “Burghwallis” is unique in that it is the only pub called the “Burghwallis” in the whole of Britain and probably even the world. Well worth a visit if only to say you’ve been in a one-off pub, take selfies, eat the great pub grub and drink real ale and stuff. Then walk it all off.
Leave the car park
and turn left down Scorcher Hills Lane to the crossroads. Cross diagonally over the road to your right and head down Stony Croft Lane locally known as the bridle path.
Pass along the hedgerows for a quarter of a mile and you will emerge alongside the playing fields at Skellow village. There is a small playing field on your right hand side, go on let the kids have a play.
Follow the bridle path for 500 yards. Initially this will be in between open fields before the path passes between hedgerows forming a canopy over the path.
The gravel path will now head into a wooded area towards Owston village a distance of half a mile. Along the first part of the path you will see various items of training equipment, which is free to use and may help also to burn off the Burghwallis pub grub.
The path passes a school on the south side of the path, and then opens out as you leave the wooded section and pass along in-between hedgerows that bisect a golf course. Carry on along the path until you get to the first wood on your right hand side known as the “Snowdrop Wood”. You will then pass a further wood on your left hand side known as the “Bluebell Wood”. Proceed along the path and walk down the edge of this small delightful village toward the church. At the cross roads you have a choice of direction.
Walk south alongside the playing fields until you almost come to the main road. On your left (heading East) you will see some external training equipment and the start of the North Park path marked with a DMBC sign announcing the site of a North Doncaster training path they built a few year ago with European money. Stand a while and marvel over the fact we do actually get some cash back from Europe.
