[1] From the University Arms (a former private member’s club bought by the University of Sheffield in 2007) head up Western Bank then descend to the Students Union and pass beneath the road. Turn left up the steps past Firth Court (information panel on Mark Firth) and turn right into Weston Park (A). Pass the Elliot statue (information panel), the War memorials and the weather station. Turn right at the museum (café and toilets) past Mappin Art Gallery and the Sykes monument (information panel) and descend past the tennis courts to the bottom corner exit. Cross the road to enter the Ponderosa (B) between the carved poles. Descend all the steps and turn left through the exercise area.
[2] Leave the Ponderosa by the tower block and turn left into Albion Street. Turn right down Addy Street, left into Addy Drive and right into Addy Close. Climb the 3 steps at the end and continue straight ahead over Spring Vale Walk towards the stone house with the blue plaque (C). Turn left at the end and go straight on up the cobbled hill through Blake Street Nature Park, a tiny but attractive example of what the local community can achieve. Continue steeply up the hill to the Blake Hotel (D), formerly a Stones Cannon Ales pub redeveloped in 2010 after several years of closure. Cross over into Ruskin Park and pass what is either the safest or most dangerous children’s park in Sheffield, depending on whether the animals which surround the play area are there for protection or trying to break in and eat them. Take the lower path past the exercise equipment.
[3] Turn right down the road and continue down Burgoyne Road. Just to the right at the bottom is The Hillsborough (E), formerly the Crown Brewery. Since 2012 the basement has been home to Wood Street Brewery. Return along Langsett Road for 100 yards and turn left up Primrose Hill. Turn right at the end of the cobbles and left after 50 yards into Creswick Street. Take the walkway with the handrail at the end and turn right on the wide walkway known as Grammar Street, from where you have views over to Parkwood Springs. Enter Greaves Street and bear left with the tarmac walkway. Keep straight on in this direction along Langsett Crescent and go straight on into Burnaby Street as the road bears left. Turn left at the bottom along Langsett Road past Hillsborough Barracks to finish at the Rawson Spring (F), a Wetherspoons pub situated in a former swimming baths.