Where?
Langsett reservoir is about 30 minutes drive from the centre of Sheffield on the A616 in the Oughtibridge direction, toward the top of the Peak District.
Postcode Used For SatNav: S36 4GY
Parking:
Langsett Barn Car Park is the main car park and the postcode above should bring you to it. It's fairly big but I can imagine in summer time it can get full. There is a lay by further up if it is.
What's it offer?
- Woodland (flat terrain)
- Countryside (mixed terrain)
- Beautiful views
- Water
- Short and extended routes
- (Part road)
Both dogs throughly enjoyed this walk, it has a bit of everything. The main car park is fairly large and has some very informative boards with route information on them, as well as on site toilets and a pub and cafe nearby. We didn't visit these as we had a bit of snow and we accidentally took the extended walk, but we will try to review in the summer months.
At the moment a few of the paths are closed as they are being re-gravelled, these routes are shown clearly on the maps. So we walked on the outskirts of the woods, which is the entrance to the far right of the car park as you come in. This was a nice scenic walk, and the flurry of snow we had only enhanced this. There's plenty of off track woodland for the dogs to explore.
When walking round you will eventually come downwards towards two bridges ahead and a path coming from your left and going past you to your right. We went across the past to the bridges on the other side and crossed the one in front to your left, we then took the path upwards from there but would advise you go on the path straight ahead. Both bring you to the same gate. This brings you to a lovely scenic stream, the downside to this is there is no clear way across and we had to paddle our way to the other side, we wouldn't advise this if you don't have wellies and are not used to more difficult terrain.
The rocks are very slippy and we used a long branch to determine where to stand as the water was flowing rather fast in some parts making the rock underneath not directly visible.
We walked up to the shallower water away from where we came and crossed the water there, then came back on ourselves on the opposite side where your dogs can paddle and splash around.
It is also worth noting there are sheep on the other side, they were quite far away on this occasion but if your dog is keen to chase, keep them on a lead until you pass the second gate across the river!
Carrying on the path upwards you come back to the bridge which was the left path we mentioned previously and a gate. Through the gate is another map, and another gate that will take you up and over the woods. It will feel like you are going in the wrong direction but you will eventually come back down to the reservoir. This area is covered in heather and open, again there were some sheep around who were very far away, but be aware. We continued on this path and took the first left, after this you come down towards the woods. This is on a very rocky path that can be hard to walk on and lined with mud that can also be slippy if it's been raining. (It is England so it's fairly likely).
There are quite a few walked paths and we did the clever thing of letting the dogs decide which route we took. We travelled alongside the reservoir as there was an opening for Izzy to go swimming, however following this all the way up and along the wooden fence brought us to a wall with a road on the other side that people were walking down with their dogs. It's then we realised we should've stuck to the signed path. We climbed over the wall and carried on our way but we advise you stick to the signs and follow those as we assume it'll lead you to the road without having to climb over a wall.
This road can be quite busy so I suggest you lead your dogs and continue. This leads back to the reservoir just below where the car park is, but further along the road is the cafe (dog friendly) so if you're planning on stopping off there it'd probably be easier to carry on along the road but the cafe does have its own car park.
We instead went through the gate and followed the track back up to the car park.
It's probably worth noting there are scattered "no dogs" signs around however we walked the route backwards and the signs were on the opposite side, so we didn't see them until we were on the path. There were a lot of other dog walkers with dogs off lead too who didn't appear to spot these/take any notice! I imagine the signs are there for lambing seasons but on this occasion we never got near any sheep.
Overall this walk was a lovely walk, we'd only expected it to be a short one but it definitely took roughly 2 hours. There are shorter routes though but if you're going to drive all the way out there I recommend using the full extended route as we enjoyed it thoroughly! We do plan to visit again in the summer and add these routes to this review, as there's quite a few!
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