Our next stop is Adwick le Street, a short distance up the line from Bentley. Whereas Bentley now feels very much like the suburb of...

The first stop along the Wakefield line from Doncaster is a Bentley, once a mining village and now a suburb attached to its parent city...

Thorne has a very different character to the last few towns we have visited, which reflects the fact that its history is quite different....

The next station on our route serves two towns and is thus named Hatfield and Stainforth after both of them. Stainforth is located close...

Kirk Sandall was originally a small hamlet named Sandal Parva, which may have played a role in the Battle of Hatfield in 633AD. Anyone...

Yorkshire’s most newly minted city also has some claim to being one its oldest settlements. Until it was granted city status as part of...

The name Conisbrough is derived from the Old English word Cyningesburh, which means King’s Stronghold, reflecting the town’s importance...

Mexborough is a stone’s throw from Swinton, and is another town built on the banks of the River Don, albeit one slightly larger than its...

After Rotherham, our next stop on the line to Doncaster is Swinton, a small town on the banks of the River Don that was once a centre for...

From Meadowhall, we head a relatively short distance along the railway line - and further downstream along the River Don - to the market...

Meadowhall is an area synonymous for most people with the Meadowhall Shopping Centre, a huge indoor complex which opened in 1990 on a...

From Woodhouse, we head further down the Sheffield-Lincoln to visit Kiveton Park, a rare (possibly unique) surviving example of a village...

The next stop is at Woodhouse, which like Darnall was once a village and eventually became a suburb of Sheffield. Unlike Darnall, its...

The first stop is at Darnall, once an Anglo-Saxon hamlet, which later became a medieval manor. No trace of its ancient past survives, except possibly for the original street layout, as evidenced by a study of old maps. It expanded during the nineteenth century, partly due to farming and coal mining, and partly to house workers at the steel foundries in the Lower Don Valley, including Darnall works and those in neighbouring Attercliffe. When industry went, Darnall’s glory days

Sheffield is a city built on industry. Famously, it grew around five rivers, which provided water power for dozens of grinding wheels...

As noted, South Yorkshire occupies roughly the bottom third of the West Riding of Yorkshire, bordering Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and...

I live in Sheffield and do a lot of walking in my spare time. I don't drive, so I do most of my walking from public transport. And so, in...