Year: 2024
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Barnes Lane Loop
Twenty three walkers and a four legged friend met at the Dronfield Woodhouse Sports and Social club in readiness for our first Thursday evening walk of the year. The weather was ideal for walking and there wasn’t a waterproof in sight. We headed off across the playing field and worked our way through the estate…
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Dawn Chorus Walk (5th May 2024)
Here’s the walk leader, Graham’s views on the day. On National Dawn Chorus Day 2024, eight DFBS members met up with two Dronfield Natural History Society members at 4.30am at Shillito Wood car park for our annual joint Dawn Chorus Walk. It was a perfect morning for listening for birdsong, not too cold and not…
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Porter Brook Circular (30th April 2024)
On a glorious springtime morning, eighteen walkers gathered for Paula’s walk. Everyone was relieved that there were no cows in the field, which made for a lovely easy walk down to Wire Mill. The return leg was a steady walk uphill on the other side of the valley passing Mayfield Alpacas Animal Farm and back…
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Summer Walks Programme
Today marked the start of our Summer Walks Programme. Historically, the last walk on the spring programme is also the first walk on the summer programme. As usual, most of the walks will be in the Dronfield area but in the same vein as last year, we have some locations that are a little further…
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The Drone Valley Way (27th April 2024)
Peter Carr, the walk leader, has kindly provided a full report on this walk. The Drone Valley Way, devised twenty years ago by Barry Jex and the Society was to be our walk today. It turned out to be a walk that not many of those in the group had done before so it was…
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Cowley, Lees Common and Monk Wood
Walk Details Date: Thursday 4th July 2024 Start Time: 7 pm Distance: 4 miles (6.4 km) Walk Leader: Richard Armstrong Stiles: 2 Meeting Point Hyde Park Inn Public HouseHilltop RoadDronfield S18 1UHSome parking at Hyde Park public house otherwise roadside Click Here lift.bars.burst SK 3507 7764 Route Notes
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Old Brampton and Linacre (16th April 2024)
I couldn’t make the walk but one of the walk leaders, Joe, has given me a few pointers. There were 23 people on the walk, which is another excellent turnout. Joe mentioned that many of the group weren’t familiar with the particular entrance to Holmebrook Valley Park that we used for our start point. This…
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Monk Wood and Barlow Lees
Walk Details Date: Thursday 1st August 2024 Start Time: 7 pm Distance: 3.8 miles (6.1 km) Walk Leader: Steve & Ros Sadler Stiles: Meeting Point Cowley Mission, Cowley Lane S18 7SD Click Here flush.pack.wool SK 3384 7704 Route Monk Wood, Barlow Fisheries & Barlow Lees Notes
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Local Walk
Walk Details Date: Thursday 25th July 2024 Start Time: 7 pm Distance: 4 miles (6.4 km) Walk Leader: Richard & Phoebe Stiles: Meeting Point The long lay-by between Dronfield and UnstoneChesterfield Road (B6057)Dronfield Click Here fell.mental.feared SK 3660 7766 Route Notes
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Around Hardwick
Walk Details Date: Saturday 24th August 2024 Start Time: 10 am Distance: 6 – 7 miles (10 – 11.3 km) Walk Leader: Richard & Phoebe Stiles: Meeting Point Hardwick Park (Ponds)Doe LeaChesterfield, S44 5QJPlease park at the Ponds car park (just after the motorway bridge before you reach the Hardwick Inn). Click Here butternut.part.splints SK…