Wyming Brook

TEMPORARILY CLOSED FOR NECESSARY WORKS

Ongoing Works Update (4 September 2023): Our planned operation to remove diseased trees in Wyming Brook will start on Monday 11th September, following the conclusion of recent works by Yorkshire Water to remove diseased trees on their land around Rivelin Dams. This necessitates a wide-scale closure of Wyming Brook Drive, the car park off Redmires Road and multiple paths throughout the nature reserve until the works are complete. We advise visitors to avoid the area whilst those works are ongoing and suggest taking alternative walks in the vicinity at Lodge Moor Camp Wood/Redmires Playing Fields, Fox Hagg nature reserve, around the lower Redmires reservoir or through the Rivelin Valley.
For more information please see our dedicated Wyming Brook works page.

Please keep dogs on leads and always follow the Countryside Code. Respect, Protect, Enjoy your local green spaces.

About Wyming Brook Nature Reserve

Once set aside for the exclusive use of the nobility when it was part of the hunting and hawking grounds of Rivelin Chase, Wyming Brook’s babbling streams, mossy crags and sweet smelling pines are protected today as a valuable home to wildlife.

The difference now is that we can all enjoy this little bit of wilderness on the western edge of Sheffield, with easy strolls by the streams or higher, rockier routes with dramatic views of the Rivelin reservoirs and the city beyond.

Part of the Eastern Moors Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), there is an abundance of wildlife at this nature reserve, including the common lutestring and northern spinach moths. It is also home to many kinds of birds, from pine seed eating crossbills to the brown and white dipper which forages for aquatic insects along the fast flowing streams. Other notable summer migrant bird species that can be observed on the reserve include bullfinch and goldcrest, spotted flycatcher, wood warblers and pied flycatchers.

Wyming Brook Green Flag Award

Wyming Brook has received a prestigious Green Flag Award, an international award scheme which recognises this nature reserve as one of the very best green spaces in the UK.

Contact about Wyming Brook

If you need to get in touch with us about Wyming Brook or any of our other reserves, please email us or call 0114 263 4335.

Volunteer Work Days

Practical volunteer days at Wyming Brook & Fox Hagg are held on the first Tuesday of every month, and the third Sunday of every other month (January, March, May, July, September, November). Tasks vary from footpath improvements and access work, to habitat and vegetation management. All volunteer days start at 10.00am and finish at 3.00pm.

Gloves, tools, and refreshments are provided, but please wear suitable outdoor clothes and boots, and bring some lunch and drinking water if you’re able to join us for the whole day.

The meeting place can vary, so please get in touch before the work day to confirm where we will be starting. Find details for our next volunteer work day on our Events page.

Find out more about volunteering with Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust.

Thank You

Together with our members and volunteers we take care of 15 nature reserves, including Wyming Brook, spanning almost 600 hectares, across Sheffield and Rotherham. These are places where you can enjoy nature and where our conservation work helps the wildlife you love to thrive.

Your donations make it possible for us to care for Wyming Brook nature reserve. Thank you!

If you need to get in touch with us about any of our reserves, please email us or call 0114 263 4335

Access Information

Getting There

Public Transport
Bus number 51 stops at Lodge Moor bus terminus on Redmires Road, a 10 minute walk from the nature reserve. Buses 273, 274 and 275 all stop on Manchester Road to the north of the reserve. Find more details on the Travel South Yorkshire website.
Directions
From Sheffield city centre take the A57 from Brook Hill roundabout and continue on to Fulwood Road, taking a slight right to continue along the A57 into Manchester Road. Continue for around half a mile before turning left onto Selbourne Road, then turn left onto Sandygate Road. Continue and keep right to follow onto Redmires Road for around 2.5 miles and park in Wyming Brook car park, just past Soughley Lane. Postcode S10 4QX.

Accessibility

Wyming Brook Drive forms a wide, surfaced bridleway running through the reserve on a north-south line, with a division off to the east. The remaining Public Rights of Way are unsurfaced footpaths through the woodlands, with numerous small bridges crossing the brook.
Please contact the Trust for disabled access information.

Other Information

Dogs on a lead are permitted on this reserve.
Please keep dogs on leads and always follow the Countryside Code. Respect, Protect, Enjoy your local green spaces.
Cyclists are permitted on the bridleways at this reserve.

Barbecues and campfires are NOT permitted at this reserve.

Camping is NOT permitted at this reserve.