Year: 2025

Nineteen walkers and one dog met in the car park opposite the cafe in Holmebrook Valley Park on a grey but pleasant enough morning. We made our way to the bottom end of the pond and took a track that followed the Holme Brook. Continuing on through field paths to Hall farm we soon reached…

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Eleven walkers and two dogs gathered in the Broombank Park car park all ready for Richard’s Five Ponds walk. Our first pond, located close to Broombank Park, is used by Severn Trent for water treatment. Here, reed beds filter contaminants from former coal mines. From here we followed a track through the trading estate, roughly…

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Here’s a report from Peter Carr, the walk leader. Starting from St. Andrews Church Hall on a Tuesday morning of the month where you can enjoy a hot drink and some  toast (other alternatives are available) was a good start to the day on what was originally described by Glyn in our winter walk programme as…

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Here is Graham’s report on Chris and Barry’s walk. Todays walk saw five members join our leaders Barry and Chris at Redmires Plantation Car Park for a walk they had previously done about a year ago. Many of the members on this previous walk said that it had been the best walk they had done…

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Here’s what Graham had to say about Paula’s walk. Today’s walk saw Paula lead a party of eight on a revised route to her original after two recces on the two previous days. She decided on a five mile alternative which took in Sheephill Road, Lady Canning’s Plantation and out onto Burbage Moor.  As we…

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Eleven walkers met outside the Barrel Inn at Bretton looking forward to a walk in classic Peak District countryside. Here’s a summary of the route that was kindly provided by Graham. The route was anti-clockwise. Back along Sir William Hill Road, then left passing Jubilee, Big Moor and Gotherage Plantations, long descent to Stoke Ford…

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Here’s what Graham had to say about Chris’ walk starting from Hardwick Ponds. Given the heavy rain forecast for the afternoon, it was no surprise that only five hardy souls turned up for this walk. However the forecast proved not to be too accurate and the first two hours were completed without any rain at…

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Light drizzle fell as nine of us gathered in the North Road car park in Clowne. Before starting in ernest, Jim our leader for the day pointed out the location of the two railway stations that Clowne once had, the first of which had been lovingly restored to show a mock up of a steam…

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Twenty one people and two dogs met outside the Swan Inn at Ridgeway ready for Graham’s walk in the Moss Valley. The first part of the walk took us down the main road to “99 steps”. We didn’t bother counting, we’ll just take Graham’s word for it. This lead us onto Sloade Lane and into…

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