Walks you can reach from Scunthorpe by train

Time: 2h–4h30

Warnings: Brigg is served only by the Saturdays-only Brigg line — a few trains on Saturdays, none midweek.

Walk details: Slow Ways.

The view from the viaduct makes the tour worthwhile. A varied riverside walk crossing the River Don by the Conisbrough Viaduct, then following the Trans Pennine Trail and Don riverside into Doncaster. Mostly good bonded-surface cycle track and easy riverside path, with some compacted-earth and open flood-bank sections that can flood and plus steps and stiles. From Conisbrough Viaduct it's possible to stay on the Trans Pennine Trail much further west.

Waterway: two thirds along the River Don.

Woodland: a third under tree cover.

Time: 3h30–6h30

1 lunch spot: the Boat Inn

Warnings: Stiles and steps along the way, and the compacted-earth riverside section shows signs of flooding at times. Care needed taking the right-hand uphill fork approaching the viaduct.

Walk details: Slow Ways.

An easy, direct route mostly on well-signposted cycletracks and entirely on hard surfaces, with no stiles. It starts past a stone church, follows a segregated pavement and cycle track along a busy road, then an old-railway cycle track in a green corridor into Doncaster, with a fiddly but well-mapped finish through the town's roundabout and footbridges and bus station. Some steps above the bus station (avoidable). Largely follows the Doncaster Cycleway / Sustrans routes along old railway lines. The Draughtsman Alehouse micropub is on Doncaster station platform 3 (no train ticket needed).

Time: 2h–4h

Lunch: A large pub/food outlet at the junction with the Great North Road.

Warnings: Follows a busy road for a quarter of the walk. Some steps above Doncaster bus station (avoidable by a detour). Lockable gates at a shopping area (in practice left open). Endless traffic alongside the segregated pavement.

Walk details: Slow Ways.

A route mainly along tarmac country lanes through farmland, with low grass patches occasionally to walk on but mostly walking on the road itself and plus the Viking Way through fields. Largely rural and gentle. Joins part of the Viking Way national trail through fields.

Time: 4h30–9h

Warnings: Burnham Road has fast traffic and the lanes have cars from both directions with little safe verge, so stay vigilant. A short section of busy road.

Walk details: Slow Ways.