Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YPS)
Although the weather forecast was for a 50% risk of rain, we managed not to get wet, shoes were muddy though. The Yorkshire Sculpture Park is near Bretton just off J38 of the M1 motorway, below is a link to Google Maps showing the exact location. Our visit took place on 18th January 2012.
Although entrance is free there was a car park charge of £5.00, (see link below for latest information.)
All around the park you will maps like the one above to guide you. The letters show the location of the different things to look at, a legend at the side gives more information. |
Chapel in the grounds
On the left hand side of our walk there is a chapel. |
Henry Moore Sculpture
Two Piece Reclining Figure: Points
Our walk took us to this Bronze Henry Moore Sculpture before heading to the bridge show in the bottom left of the picture. Moore was born in Castleford in Yorkshire in 1898. |
Dam Head Bridge
At the head of the dam is a bridge that crosses over the River Dearne, from one side you can see over the dam while the other you can see the cascade that the Dearne flows over. From the bridge you then walk over the head of the dam. |
Picture Of Well
Just over the Dam Head & Bridge and to the left is the well shown in the above photograph. |
Writing on the Well
It would appear from my research that the Right Hon. Grace Countess of Eglinton had been married to Thomas Wentworth 1st Baronet of West Bretton until his death in 1675. The only heiress to Francis Popeley and his wife Elizabeth nee Gomersal. After her first husband died she later married Alexander Montgomerie, Earl of Eglintown (Eglinton) in 1679. She died 30 March 1698 and is buried in Silkstone.
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Our walk went through Menagerie Wood rather than up to the Longside Gallery. (There is a courtesy bus that you can catch back from the gallery.) The bridge is believed to have built in 1782 for Sir Thomas Wentworth. |
View from Menagerie Wood over the dam to Bretton Hall
From the footbridge you get Bretton Hall in view over the dam, in the foreground are stepping stones, we thought a group of visitors were going to walk across, so waited in vain. |
The walk we choose took us back over Cascade Bridge from which I took this photo of Bretton Hall. Like so many large country dwellings there is a haha wall. (A haha wall stopped animals getting near to the house, yet allowed the occupants to see them close-up). |
Antony Gormley One and Other
Perched high on an old dead tree is One and Other by Antony Gormley. It is here that the visitor must choose one of the many paths available, to the Obelisk perhaps? After a chat with one of the guides at the YSP we decided to visit the Camellia House since some were in flower. |
Was it a rabbit I saw? The sculpture was just outside the Camellia House and to the left is two of the ten seated figures by Magdalena Abakanowicz. |
Camellia flowering in the Camellia House |
Sheet 110 OS Landranger Map covers the area in a scale of 2cm to 1km or in old money 1.25 inches to 1 mile. For a more detailed map try OS Explorer Map Sheet 278. There is another way and that is a service offered by the Ordnance and Survey called getamap. Getamap lets you plan a route on the map, which subscribers can then print off on their printer. For those with Garmin products, the GPX file of the route can transferred to your device. |
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Spiegel by Jauma Plensa
As our visit to the YSP was coming to an end so was the day. The sky had moved from a blue/grey to the red glow. Although our eyes could see the transformation the camera did not. So patiently we waited until the camera saw what we had seen and the result is this photo. |
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