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Bole Hill Lane, SHEFFIELD, S10 1SD

These must be about the only open plan front gardens around.

Bolehill Lane meets Toftwood Road, to the left and Toftwood Avenue, to the right. If you carry on straight across the junction and walk to the end of Bolehill Lane, before it takes a sharp bend to the right, there is a nice walk down to Clough Fields and several equally nice options to make your way down to the Rivelin Valley. I used to walk down there alone, when my age was in the single figures and there never was any reason to worry about doing so. There is a very pretty walk, in the valley, that follows the river from Glen Bridge to Rivelin Mill Bridge. My wife and I have walked that and carried on through to Baslow and back.

Tinker Lane meets Bolehill Lane. Tinker Lane rises up from Bole Hill Road and where they meet is the Walkley to Intake bus terminus.

This shows how steep Tinker Lane really is. I was a bit a weakling until I got a bike. I road up down here times many until I could pedal from bottom to top while still sitting on the saddle. It was a damn good place to sledge down, but a bit of a climb back up. Also shows three entrances onto the Bolehills; here, just up the road by the cottages and centre distance, via the steps.

The path in the foreground leads to Tinker Lane. Just to the left it merges and becomes Bolehill Lane. Bolehill Lane is the road ahead, which in the distance, gives way to Toftwood Road, on the left and Toftwood Avenue, on the right.

At its junction with Tinker Lane. I once carried my wife all the way up this hill.

These are Cocked Hat Cottages, that were built around 1860. The Unwin family owned a quarry on the Bolehills and lived here. This end of the building was a stable with hay loft. The un-surfaced lane that ran by was called Cocked Hat Lane, from which the cottages took their name. Tinker Lane, which ends here at Bolehill Lane, rises here by 105 metres on its way up from Bole Hill Road. I once carried my wife all the way up.

I took this photograph just to replicate this one taken 40-years-ago - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2176841

Taken when Stannington, across the valley, was still a village. A more recent photograph - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2176831

As you walk down Bolehill Lane there's nothing to suggest that this is a recreational area. No plaque, no map, no history. There are at least three other ways in and last time I looked there wasn't anything there either.