Year: 2023
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Holmesfield Circular (27th December 2023)
Despite the poor weather forecast for the day, six eager members of the group and two fairly eager collies, met at Pentland Road Shops for Paula’s walk. With possible wet weather in mind, Paula had selected a walk on pavements, quiet lanes and tarmac tracks, the only muddy section being the first section of the…
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Winter and Spring 2024 Walks Programme is available
Great news, our winter and Spring 2024 walks programme has been published and can be viewed on this website. To browse through all our walks, select Walks from the main menu and then Walks Calendar from the sub-menu. To view a walk in more detail, click on the title of the walk. To view or…
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Monk Wood, Barlow and Peakley Hill Circular (12th December 2023)
Eleven walkers met at Cowley Mission on a grey Tuesday morning. The leaders, Steve and Ros had warned us to expect water and mud so we were fully geared up with poles, gaiters and over-trousers. In the first part of the hike we walked mainly through fields and quiet country lanes towards Barlow fishing ponds.…
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Cutthorpe and Linacre Reservoirs (9th December 2023)
Four hardy members of our group turned out for the walk which started in Barlow. Although the weather was very inhospitable the group decided they wanted to go ahead with the walk. The initial part of the walk through fields to Linacre Woods confirmed suspicions that the going would be very wet and muddy, so…
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Poolsbrook Country Park loop (5th December 2023)
With light rain falling from gloomy skies, 8 of us set off from Hollingwood Hub to walk alongside the Chesterfield Canal to Staveley Basin. After recent heavy and consistent rainfall the canal was full to the brim and there was flooding in some parts of the adjacent river Rother. The most extreme example of the…
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Money raised for Cancer Research at AGM
Pete Brown, who did his “Free Bird” talk after our AGM, has been in touch with Graham about the money we raised on the night for his chosen charity Cancer Research. You will be pleased to hear that our group’s donation and individual contributions came to a grand total of £76.80! Here’s the letter of…
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Moss Valley Circular (14th November 2023)
I was unable to lead this walk so Graham kindly stepped in to take my place. Here’s what he had to say about the walk With Pete Hubbard not able to lead his “Wood I Lie to You” walk, I stepped in as replacement leader and led a party of 21 members on a 4.75…
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Christmas Tree Festival 2023
24th November – 3rd December at Dronfield Parish Church Come along and see up to 100 trees supplied and decorated by local schools, clubs and businesses, including one from our very own Dronfield Footpaths & Bridleways Society. Opening Times Fri 24th 4pm – 9pmSat 25th 10am – 5pmSun 26th 12 noon – 5pmMon 27th 10am…
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Cuckoo Way and Trans Pennine Trail Circular (7th November 2023)
There was an impressive turnout for Ted’s walk on Tuesday. Here’s what Graham had to say about it. Todays walk saw Ted Bennett lead a group of 23 walkers on a 4.2 mile walk in the Renishaw and Eckington area. Ted had originally intended to use some paths around Spinkhill and Westhorpe but these proved…
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Holmesfield and Horseleygate Circular (24th October 2023)
Here’s Paula’s report on her walk on the 24th October. Six of us and two dogs set out this morning. I’d altered the intended return route due to the amount of rain we’d had over the last few days. We walked through the fields from “telly tubby hill” up to Horsleygate, surprisingly dry under foot…