Join Ramblers Wellbeing Walks Doncaster for short, local and accessible walks to help you get more active.
Walks are over easy ground and taken at steady pace to suit everyone
Walks range from 10 to 90 minutes in length
At least one short walk a week, starting at the same time and place every week
All walks are accessible on foot or by public transport
You only need to join a group once to access all future walks
Walking is such a great way to keep fit and healthy at a pace that is manageable for the individual. If combined with a tour of one of the best wildlife viewing spots in England how much better is that likely to make you feel? Natural England hold fortnightly walks, part of the Ramblers Wellbeing walks at Hatfield Moors – part of the Humberhead Peatlands National Nature Reserve near Doncaster. This special and unique Reserve is designated for its habitat of peatbog and a quirky Summer visiting bird. It’s a flat site over easy ground. Every first and third Weds of the month, starting at 9.30am from the Hatfield Moors Humberhead Peatland Nature Reserve car park, grid ref SE683 048, what3words = unpacked.wobbling.quibble (opposite to Boston Park Farm), a guided walk will run that can suit the requirements of new visitors. Every second and fourth Weds of the month there will be an afternoon walk starting at 2pm as above. The walks are led by knowledgeable NNR Volunteers who have been active with the tours for many years and who will chat amongst the group as it winds a way down the fantastic array of way-marked routes. Hatfield has a range of habitats to learn more about and explore on a walk, from woodland and heath and the remnants of sand and gravel and peat extraction. A visit in August and September will reward you with the purple haze of heather and a profusion of busy dragon and damselfly activity. The recovering wet boggy areas will be best viewed in early Summer as cotton grass plant seed heads nod gently as they creep back across the Moors. But every season has its own highlight here and a chance to watch deer and water vole, listen to bubbling bird song and admire orchids and wildflowers or experience the change of colours on the hedgerows and trees are not to be missed! You’ll discover what made the bog and why it is in this part of the country in the first place, why human intervention has shaped the way it looks today and how the on-going hydrology management will take the NNR into the next episode of its journey by restoring the balance of the habitat. For more information on the walks, contact 07766 420290 or just turn up as no booking required – happy walking days. A variety of other topical and wildlife spectacle walks and events take place on the Humberhead Peatlands and will be advertised at noticeboards through the Reserve, in local press or: -on the Humberhead Peatlands Facebook page www.facebook.com/humberheadpeatlands -on Twitter @Humberhead. -by email humberhead.peatlands@naturalengland.org.uk
Hatfield Moors Car Park Grid ref = SE683 048 what3words = unpacked.wobbling.quibble)
Walks are over easy ground and taken at steady pace to suit everyone
Walks range from 10 to 90 minutes in length
At least one short walk a week, starting at the same time and place every week
All walks are accessible on foot or by public transport
You only need to join a group once to access all future walks
