Year: 2019
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Unthank and Rumbling Street (27th December 2019)
Friday 27th December: Steve and Ros Sadler For the last walk of 2019 we started from a Millthorpe – a change from previous years. The weather was dry and mild as 24 of us set off on a 4 mile walk mainly on footpaths via Unthank, Moorhall, Rumbling Street and back to Millthorpe. Conditions underfoot…
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Cartledge and Holmesfield (10th December 2019)
Tuesday 10th December: A Richard Armstrong walk. Richard arrived at St Andrews, and by the sounds of him, was hoping that the assembed group of booted folks was going to chicken out, and head back home to watch Homes under the Hammer, or other such televised nonsense. Not the case: we , the 9 of…
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Boardwalk now OPEN! 2020 update
The lower one, that is, that leads from the car wash to Half Acre Lane, by Metapic Wood. DCC have fixed . Not the complete replacement we hoped for, but certainly safer!
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Not really a pub crawl wellie walk (16th November 2019)
Saturday 16th November: “Not really a Pub Crawl Wellie Walk” A dozen of us set out from the Big Lay and headed off up Half Acre Lane, the first stop was to wonder at the New Unstone Sink Hole. We were thwarted by a sea of impassable mud near the International Airport, but managed to…
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Moss Valley circular (12th November 2019)
Tuesday 12th November, words and pics by Kaz Brightmore 7 intrepid walkers set off after tea and tea cakes at the Wesleyan Church on a very wet morning. However as we started to walk the clouds parted and apart from a very small shower we walked in full sun!We took the easier!! Route down Owler…
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Upper Moss Valley (22nd October 2019)
Tuesday 22 October saw the first of this winter’s breakfast rambles on a walk led by Peter. After a comfortable and relaxed atmosphere enjoying hot drinks and toasted teacakes at Coal Aston Wesleyan Reform Church on Cross Lane we emerged outside. Having devoured all the available teacakes 16 of us stepped out to enjoy a…
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Ridgeway and Eckington (19th October 2019)
First walk of the Winter programme: Saturday 19th October 2019 Ridgeway – West Mosborough – Eckington Today saw the start of our Winter Warmer Walking Programme when a party of 24 met at The Swan pub in Ridgeway for a six mile circular walk in the Lower Moss Valley. Led by Graham Gill, we set…
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Dronfield2Gether
An exhibition at the Sports Centre where we had a table….this day was set up for the over 55s in the area to seek out new possibilities and activities. We chatted to lots of folk, gave away quite a few leaflets, and have developed ideas for the next walking programme. One of our members was…
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Cowley circular (10th September 2019)
Final walk of the Summer Walks Programme on Tuesday 10th September led by Steve & Ros Sadler. 18 folk set off from the Farwater Lane Car Park behind Dronfield Civic Centre shops for a 5 mile walk on a fine sunny morning. Our route took us along part of the Lea Brook Valley before stopping…
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Part of the round walk (24th August 2019)
Saturday 24th August A merry band of 19 walkers left the Farwater Lane carpark at 10am on Saturday 24th August for a circular walk incorporating a large section of our adopted section of the round Dronfield walk. The weather was grand if a little too warm towards the end. After some urban walking up to…