Year: 2024
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Birley and Ridgeway Circular (13th January 2024)
Nineteen walkers met at the Ford Wheel Dam car park in the hope that overnight frost would crisp up any mud that they might come across. The first part of the walk took us to Carterhall via Birleyhay and Sloadlane. Many of us hadn’t walked on these paths before so it was great to add…
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Moss Valley Circular (9th January 2024)
Tuesday’s walk was led by Graham. Here’s what he had to say about the walk. For this walk I tried to put together a route with as much road and decent surface walking as possible, in an attempt to avoid the mud that we have encountered recently on our walks.After hot drinks kindly provided by…
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Summerley and Apperknowle Circular (2nd January 2024)
Our first walk of the new programme and of the new year started from the long lay-by between Dronfield and Unstone. Despite the weather warnings caused by storm Henk, a creditable twelve walkers turned up for the walk. The first section of the walk took down Half Acre Lane, past Metapic wood and along Callywhite…
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Monk Wood Circular (31st December 2023)
Twenty walkers and 3 dogs gathered outside Pentland Road Shops on New Year’s Eve for Paula’s 6.5 mile figure of eight walk. The first part of the walk took us through Kitchen Wood and then on to Cowley Lane. After a short stretch on the road we turned right towards Peakley Hill and on to…