Extract:
'The Doncaster section of the Trans Pennine Trail is 18 miles (30 km) long. The part known as the Don Gorge, or Sprotbrough Gorge, is highlighted and shown in detail on the map. As you travel along this stretch of the Trans Pennine Trail you will follow riverbank, cross farmland and skirt woodlands and villages. Look out for our local industrial past and keep your eyes open for wildlife too.'

Along the Trail:
'Conisbrough Viaduct - built with 15 million bricks in 1906-7 this massive structure carried passenger trains across the Gorge until 1951.

Levitt Hagg - once a thriving quarry but now a restored landfill site, its walls are geological marvels and home to four species of bat (Whiskered, Long-eared, Daubentons and Natterers). The bats and their homes are protected by law.

Sprotbrough Flash - a shining expanse of open water, was created by subsidence from coal mining at Cadeby and Denaby Main. The Flash sustains over-wintering and breeding birds such as Little Grebe, Mute Swan and Tufted Duck - The Great Crested Grebe returned to the Flash in the 1950's after an absence of 100 years.'