Overview

This section of the Upper Don Trail has a mainly urban character, leading you past some of the city’s oldest industrial heritage buildings mostly converted to bars, restaurants, housing and workspaces including several micro-breweries.

There are spectacular views of the ancient Kelham Weir from Ball Street Bridge.

However more traditional industry still operates along the river in Neepsend and on Club Mill Road. 

Sheffield industry is also celebrated in the Kelham Island Museum with its spectacular giant machinery.

There are some less attractive bits including some chronic fly-tipping sites and a ramshackle but not threatening ‘new age’ traveller camp.  

But the trail will also delight and surprise you with enticing stretches of post-industrial greenery including the atmospheric Wardsend Cemetery Heritage Park leading to Parkwood Springs, an emerging new inner city country park.