Walks & Plaques

The trust continues to run occasional guided walks in Doncaster, Bawtry and Tickhill. Recently walks have also taken place in Edenthorpe, Kirk Sandall and Bennetthorpe.

One of the trust's earliest walks, the Doncaster Town Trail, was printed to assist people who wanted to follow the walk using the pamphlet as a guide, it is on sale at the Tourist Information Centre on High Street Doncaster. This was also turned into a digital walk featuring images, text, video clips and a narrator, and can be accessed via its own website at DoncasterTownTrail.co.uk.

This digital walk is also available to use via a touch screen kiosk situated in the Danum Gallery Library and Museum (D GLAM), and can be accessed on the museum floor of D GLAM.

Two new digital walks have also been added to the Doncaster Town Trail website. The first digital trail focuses on the rounded corner buildings that still remain in Doncaster. The oldest of these buildings were built in the late 1700s.
Another digital trail features the green plaques that the Civic Trust has installed in the city.

As well as showing the location for the existing green plaques, this digital trail also includes a number of virtual plaques,
which celebrate Doncaster’s prominent people, buildings and events.

Following a national initiative to celebrate the lives of prominent women, the Civic Trust created a new green plaque to celebrate the life of Hannah Mary Clark. Born in 1881, she became the first woman to be elected a Doncaster Councillor in 1920. A plaque is now installed on a house, she lived in, on Lawn Avenue. More details about these walks can be found on
doncastercivictrust.org.uk website