Shire Brook Valley Heritage Group

11/09/2026

There are still some spaces on our guided walk tomorrow if you would like to come along.

For more details click on the link below:

Shire Brook Valley Nature Reserve (guided walk: easy)

Join historians Meghan Tipping and Christine Handley on a guided walk exploring the heritage and nature of Shire Brook Valley Nature Reserve.

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10/09/2026

Volunteers filled a hole in the footpath near carr forge underpass today, then re-surfaced the horse hop near the horse paddock. We also cut back loads of overhanging branches. We heard and saw lots of buzzards overhead.

09/09/2026

Two days improving the path and steps near the bracken patch this week. This path always gets really wet and muddy in winter, so we've raised it up by bringing lots of footpath material in. The wonderful volunteers did lots of wheelbarrowing. Can you find this path? (It's the second right off Stone Lane) What do you think to our work?

07/09/2026

Spot the locations! Filmed on Ian Rotherham's and Peter Bridgewater's recent visit to the valley during the heatwave.

Talking about ‘Recombinant Landscapes’ with Professor Peter Bridgewater as part of the build-up to the October conference ‘Nature in its Place? What is Native? Where does Nature B…

07/09/2026

03/09/2026

Come and explore the heritage and nature of Handsworth, Woodhouse and Shire Brook Valley Nature Reserve!

You can find out more about each guided walk and book your FREE place using the links below:

St Mary's Church to Woodhouse Library (guided walk: hard)
https://www.trybooking.com/uk/events/landing/115985

The Valley Loop (guided walk: moderate)
https://www.trybooking.com/uk/events/landing/115983

Shire Brook Valley Nature Reserve (guided walk: easy)
https://www.trybooking.com/uk/events/landing/115979

Woodhouse & District Community Forum Sheffield Parks and Countryside

02/09/2026

Following on from Ian Rotherham's visit to the Shire Brook Valley the other week, he's now written the following article about some of the ancient trees we have.

Ancient trees create a sense of place in Sheffield’s Shire Brook Valley That most people love old trees perhaps goes without saying, although we often don’t pause to think ‘why?’. Gnarled , old oak…

02/09/2026

Is there anything these volunteers can't handle??? Amazing work today from our Wednesday volunteer team. We were preparing a path for surfacing next week, but unfortunately we can't get a digger in there to scrape the grass off (due to steps and a bridge), so we had to scrape it off by hand! Using spades we sorted it and can now go and rest our backs! We also cut back overhanging trees, scythed a meadow and cleared balsam. And hardly even got wet!

31/08/2026

Kevin Steele, our ace wildlife photographer has sent us a photo of a Grey wagtail around Carr Forge pond. Lovely to see!

27/08/2026

Tidying up the woodland glades today. Then finishing scything the entrance areas and a bit of cutting back overhanging branches over paths.