Sheffield to Rotherham Canal Towpath

On Sunday, the young man needed a lift to the cinema. Her was meeting friends and we suspected a girl! (his personal hygiene often leaves a lot to be desired, but on Sunday morning he spent ages showering, brushing his teeth and his hair - which never usually sees a brush! He also had me buy him 2 trendy T shirts earlier in the week!). He said he would need a lift home afterwards, so hubby and I decided to walk the canal which is by the side of the cinema.

We were going to walk our usual way which takes us down the canal into Sheffield, and then back by via the river Don, but we realised we had never walked the other way, which takes you from Attercliffe to Rotherham - so we did this instead.

Its very hard to imagine that this would all have been surrounded by heavy industry until a few years ago. It is a far more rural walk than the walk into Sheffield where the buildings have been retained.

There is a Marina at Tinsley and a massive flight of locks.

We were amazed to find that so many people actually live on the canal, both at Tinsley and also nearer to Rotherham. They all have little gardens, greenhouses and sheds, and I was impressed to see solar lighting panels.

Hubby said that if we lived on a boat, it would end up like this - whoops!!!

There are several very large basins on this stretch of the canal, and one bit stops being a canal for a while and utilises the river which must be navigatable for a while, before turning back into a canal near a spectacular weir.

The canal runs under the MI motorway at one point.

These are the only 2 remaining relics of industry that we found along the way.

There were lots of signs of nature to spot.

On almost reaching Rotherham, we thought that we had better cut our walk short and hot foot it back to the car park as we calculated the film finished about 5.30pm. As we received no text, we decided to partake of a swift half of lager outside the "Noose & Gibbet", a pub dedicated to the highwayman Spence Broughton who was the last man to hang in Sheffield. Its a great pub sign don't you think?

Well, after waiting for another half hour, I decided to ring him to see where he was. Indeed a young lady was involved and he had forgotten all about his old parents and gone home with her on the bus!!!