Wyming Brook
The Wyming Brook is a short stream river in the West Riding of Yorkshire, in the south of the Riding, just two miles from the Derbyshire border.
The source of the brook is in the hills of the Hallam Moors, and the waters now emerge from the Redmires Reservoirs. The brook flows in a north-easterly direction for a mile down quite steep terrain into an underground chamber where it joins the Rivelin tunnel before it flows into the lower of the Rivelin Dams.[1]
A path runs alongside the brook and is popular with walkers. The path can be quite steep, with it and the brook falling over 300 feet in half a mile.
Reserve
For almost its entire length, the river flows within the Wyming Brook Nature Reserve, managed by the Wildlife Trust for Sheffield and Rotherham. The surrounds are wooded near the bottom and more open near the top, with stunning views of the Rivelin Valley and beyond. Wildlife found around Wyming Brook includes the dipper and the crossbill.[2]
Historically the area was used as part of the exclusive hunting and hawking grounds of Rivelin Chase.[2]
Within the landscape
The Peak District Boundary Walk runs through the nature reserve.[3]
Above, and to the west of the watercourse on Ash Cabin Flat is an embanked stone circle, dating to the Bronze Age.[4]
- Location map: 53°22’10"N, 1°35’45"W
References
- ↑ Davey, Roy: 'Reminiscing Around Rivelin', page 8
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Wyming Brook: Sheffield Wildlife Trust
- ↑ McCloy, Andrew (2017). Peak District Boundary Walk: 190 Miles Around the Edge of the National Park. Friends of the Peak District. ISBN 978-1909461536.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1016623: Stone circle on Ash Cabin Flat, north east of Reservoir Cottages, Sheffield (Scheduled ancient monument entry)
- Streetmap: SK2688485942
