The Round Rotherham Run in Pictures      Stage 1 Part 1  MWBC to Elsecar Canal

What you see Where you go
Start just south of gate to Manvers Waterside Boat Club (MWBC) on lakeside path
Follow lakeside path clockwise, keep right of houses.
At end of lake, bear L (do not cross bridge) ....  
   ....to path junction.  L along main (level) hard-surfaced FP, signed TPT.  Keep on this hard-surfaced FP, under bridges, and follow it right across a BR to a RD. 

    

      

Cross road, under arch, then before bridge fork left at TPT sign

Cross RD, under metal arch, after 200 m bear L, signed Elsecar, on narrow path,   
cross RD (under another arch). Surfaced path, parallel to dual carriageway.....
to access RD to Retail Park.  Cross Rd, R of Morrison's, down slope, still following surfaced path, bearing right until the canal is reached

 

   bear R after clear area (through muddy dip!),
 eventually joining canal towpath
follow towpath towards Elsecar

Last update 07 September, 2018 by Henry Marston

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