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The route started from Marr with 1.4km of road walking along Church Lane with no pavement. It was quite busy but the drivers were considerate and there was good visibility. The entrance to the field path was tucked into the hedge, but was passable (in both senses of the word!). It soon became a tractor track that was not too muddy at the time.
This emerged onto a short bit of road and under the motorway. The entrance to Brodsworth Community Woodland was through a grassy cycle barrier shortly after the motorway. A grassy track led onto a gravelled cycle track which we followed as it weaved back and forth. There are a variety of routes here, so GPS is handy, but it’s useful to know that generally you move away from the motorway noise.
Eventually we came out into some very pleasant housing through the Woodlands Conservation Area. The suburban walk along Windmill Balk Lane was not unpleasant, and there was a short but nice detour past older buildings including St Lawrence’s Church, before arriving next to Adwick Station.
Overall the route worked quite well, given the lack of options from Marr.

A mix of road and community woodland walking. No stiles and no cattle. Paths not all on OS so GPS is highly recommended.

Only one way to go northwards from Marr so we head off along Church Lane which sounds peaceful but does have a fair amount of traffic and no verge for escape if needed. Thankfully drivers were considerate but we were still releived to turn into an ORPA, Freestone Quarry Lane and find it unobstructed. Old maps show a footpath which would avoid even more road walking, any offers to research this?

To avoid more road walking this route makes use of Brodsworth Community Woodland one of the many colliery spoil heaps in this area. It's amazing to consider how much coal has been taken out underground looking at the material here that was rejected. Our path twists and turns avoiding a climb to the summit.

Back into an urban landscape we are in Woodlands a model village built around 1908 to house the workers at the colliery, again it gives some idea of the huge scale of the operation and workforce. I compared the housing with the model village at Cresswell on the Derbyshire Nottinghamshire border which is not surprising because Percy Houfton was the architect of both.

At the crossing of the main road, light assisted, there are shops. Use these if required as there are none at Adwick station. It's now roadside pavement walking with a short detour to pass the church and in September a garden covered in cyclamen.

Not sure where we wait to meet on the road at the station so perhaps the church or park would be a better bet.

Walked from Marr to Adwick. This is probably as good a route as is possible given the lack of paths, but the walk north from Marr is not ideal as there is no pavement, though all of the traffic that passed us gave us plenty of space. The middle part through the country park is indirect but pleasant, and beyond it we are on residential pavements with pelican crossings at the busier junctions.

From the Marr meeting point, Church Lane is a short pavement walk west. We turn right up the lane, whose pavement stops at the edge of the village. The road beyond is moderately busy, but the drivers seemed pretty considerate and not surprised to see walkers. Eventually we pass a small wood at the top of a low hill, then turn right along an old lane (the entrance is a little overgrown, but the path itself is fine).

This takes us to Green Lane, which is wide enough to be safe, and we cross under the motorway bridge to find a little path left that twists to join the main wide track through Brodsworth Community Woodlands, an old colliery tip now a country park. Our route through the park is all on good paths, but does have a lot of twists and turns so watch the GPX plot carefully. Eventually we cross a bridge between two little lakes and head right to pick up a lane where we go sharp left to a wide junction. From here the walk out to the meeting point at Adwick rail station is a simple pavement walk. The detour past the church adds a little interest.

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