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Rotherham's Parks
& Green Spaces

For an industrial town Rotherham is full of parks and green spaces. The country parks have been created from old pit sites or surround old reservoirs and all of these are popular and well-used. The urban parks, by and large, are nothing to write home about and as such parks do, they suffer from the ills of the age - winos, druggies, yobbos, vandalism, and under age drinking. Clifton Park, near the centre of town, is a very nice place and has now undergone a multi-million pound re-fit.

Other green areas tend to suffer from other forms of yobbism - indiscriminate shooting with air rifles, bikie boys, burnt out cars, dumped rubbish, and that scourge of the 21st Century, the four-wheel driver who thinks that he has a perfect right to drive wheresoever he pleases. (I know you meet them on the roads as well but at least you know what to expect there). Don't let any of this put you off - it does not put me off. Just shout very loudly when somebody is doing something you think they should not be - from long experience I have noticed that even hardened yobbos will shear off sharply from a good Yorkshire gob like mine.

For any of those amongst you paying close attention (Ah there are some out there!) you may have noticed that one area can have a number of different categories. For example Anston Stones Wood is both a site of Site of Special Scientific Interest and a Local Nature Reserve.

Then we have Blackburn Meadows which is a nature reserve but does not appear to have Local Nature Reserve Status. Confused? I am! Then we have woodlands classed as Heritage Woodlands which means that the area has been woodland for at least four hundred years, and then we have other woods which do not have this classification so are unprovably old or appallingly modern.

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