Year: 2021
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Summerley and Troway (7th December 2021)
Tuesday 7th December a Peter Thornber walk……18 intrepid walkers set out on 7 December from Coal Aston Wesleyan Reform Chapel. The weather was typical for the time of year – cold and windy with an imminent threat of rain or worse. However, all rose to the challenge, completing 5 miles, up to Summerley, on to…
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The start of the Moss (30th September 2021)
THURSDAY 30th SEPTEMER 2021 This was the first of our Winter walks starting with hot drinks and toast. These are normally held on Tuesdays but on this occasion Muriel at the Coal Aston Wesleyan Reform Church couldn’t accommodate us as it was her birthday on the 28th. Starting out at 10.00am, Graham Gill led…
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Bluster castle (14th September 2021)
Tuesday 14thSepember Hilary Pike and Ann Flowers led this walk: 7 brave souls turned up for what threatened to be terrible weather, however it was not nearly as bad as the forecast. The walk led by Ann and Hilary started at Millthorpe going through Rose Wood to Moorhall onto Bluster castle and Cutthorpe past Crowhole…
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Lower Moss Valley (11th September 2021)
SATURDAY 11th SEPTEMBER 2021 The first walk on our winter programme saw Graham Gill lead a party of 12 on a circular route from The Swan Inn at Ridgeway into the Lower Moss Valley and calling at the Church Farm Tea garden in Eckington. We started out taking the path by the Junior School across the…
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The LowerBoardwalk
Wooo Hooo! emergency closure of Dronfield Footpath No.73 & Unstone No.52 from the 13th of September to the 10th of October 2021. This is the Lower Boardwalk, which DCC said they would replace….fingers crossed…. This is the boardwalk from Half Acre Lane, by Metapic Wood, to the industrial estate at the back of the car…
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150 years of Dronfield Station
a walk to celebrate this was planned for last year….cancelled because of you know what, then planned again for last week. It rained so hard, it was postponed until today! 15th August. Graham Gill and Peter Carr had put a lot of work into planning this walk, a walk along the Unstone Line, with lots…
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Damp Thursday evening walk!
This from leader Angela: What we did on our walk yesterday evening…( 5th August) Ten people and one dog met outside the community centre at Unstone ready for our evening walk of We nearly lost the dog and it’s walker to the ‘People and Dogs’ training session which was starting inside the community centre at…
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Walk from Callywhite Lane
Karen Brightmore led us on a very pleasant wander, along from Callywhite to Metapic, then along the lower boardwalk (careful here, there are some damaged boards, which DCC knows about) past the back of the Drone Valley Brewery (open Friday evenings and Saturday afternoons) then up to The Unstone Line. A haunted area, because sometimes,…
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First Walk of the New Season!
On a lovely sunny evening 22 members enjoyed a 4 mile walk in the Moss Valley. The walk went down the valley and then up to the Rotary Bench and onto Hazelbarrow Farm. Everyone was smiling as this was the first DFBS walk for over 15 months. Thanks to Adrian Slome for setting this one…
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Finally, the good news….
Hopefully, we are heading back to ‘normal’, and have now prepared a programme for some walks, but, you will have to wait until July for the programme to start. Paid-up members of DFBS will receive a copy, so we hope all goes well over the coming months. The DFBS Facebook page has been very active,…