Year: 2023
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Pleasley Circular Walk (19th August 2023)
Fourteen walkers had a very enjoyable walk that started from Pleasley. Thanks to Richard and Phoebe for leading the walk.
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Troway Hall Farm Pie and Peas (17th August 2023)
Our final Thursday evening walk was led by Graham. Here’s what he had to say about the evening. With the diminishing daylight in August, for our last Thursday evening walk on the summer programme we repeated our Pie and Peas walk from last year from Troway Hall Farm. Graham Gill led 36 members on a…
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Ouzle Bank and the Peak Resort (10th August 2023)
Twenty three walkers gathered on the Dronfield-Unstone long lay-by on a hot and sunny Thursday evening in readiness for one of Richard’s walks. This was the group’s penultimate evening walk. We started out by crossing the road and ascending a steep field. Here we encountered what has become the group’s nemesis in recent times, a…
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Ringinglow Circular (8th August 2023)
There were 14 on the walk which was led by Paula. The route was via Lady Cannings Plantation, Houndkirk Road, The Ox Stones and the Upper Porter Brook. There was a steep but short climb back up to the Norfolk Arms where 7 of the party had food and drinks in the beer garden in…
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Holmesfield Circular (20th July 2023)
Eighteen walkers met in the top car park of Dronfield Woodhouse Sports and Social Club for a 4 mile walk led by Vanessa and David. During a week of unsettled weather we were fortunate to have a good prediction of sunny intervals and no rain for the evening’s walk. We worked our way through the…
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Five Ponds Walk (15th July 2023)
Seven walkers met at Broombank Park on the Sheepbridge Industrial Estate in readiness for Richard’s popular five ponds walk. This year Richard had made some alterations to the walk owing to two very overgrown footpaths. The first pond was only a short distance from our start point at the end of Loverose Way. Loverose Way…
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Bradway – Holmesfield Circular (13th July 2023)
Sixteen eager walkers gathered at Dronfield Woodhouse Sports and Social Club on a warm and bright Thursday evening. I was leading the walk and had found it to be very muddy when I did my recce, but actually, it wasn’t that bad on the day. We set off across the recreation ground towards Barnes Lane,…
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Dore – Dronfield Coffin Routes (8th July 2023)
Nine of us gathered outside the Barnes Lane shops feeling a little nervous about the predicted thundery showers that were forecast. Nevertheless we were looking forward to discovering new footpaths in an area we don’t often visit. Our walk leaders were Nicola and Julie. Nicola had found this walk on the Dore Village Society website…
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Ouzel Bank, Peak Resort and Unstone (6th July 2023)
Nineteen walkers gathered at the end of Half Acre lane on a pleasant Thursday evening. It’s always nice to get the uphill out of the way early on, which is exactly what we did, climbing gradually up to Ouzel bank where we stopped to admire the extensive views. After taking the track alongside the wood…
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Silverhill and Hardwick country parks (4th July 2023)
Ten of us met up on the approach road to the Hardwick Inn. This is an area that the group hasn’t walked in recently so we were all looking forward to discovering new footpaths. Our leader, Ted had done a recce of his intended walk a few days earlier and had found some footpaths that…