Year: 2025
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Old Brampton and Linacre (1st May 2025)
Starting at Holmebrook Valley Park, David led us on a lovely walk to Old Brampton and Linacre reservoirs. We left the park and initially walked through a housing estate before picking up a track through fields that took us all the way to Old Brampton. We walked a short distance up to the church with…
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Dronfield Round Walk (Part 2) (29th April 2025)
Fourteen walkers met at Coal Aston Village Hall on a glorious morning. We all got lifts to Cowley Mission in 4 cars and walked along Cowley Lane to the turning where we left the first part of the round walk on Saturday. We walked across fields to Cartledge Hall. This section of the walk included…
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Dronfield Round Walk (Part 1) (26th April 2025)
Eleven walkers decided to take up the challenge of an eight mile walk that formed the first half of the Dronfield Hall Barn Round Walk. It was difficult to split the walk into two parts of an equal distance but we made a pretty good job, this one being 8 miles and the other half…
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Summer Programme 2025
Our summer walks programme has arrived! Just click on the Walks menu item and then Walks Calendar on the sub-menu. Alternatively, click on the View Full Calendar button on the homepage. If you prefer to see the programme as a printable PDF file, again select the Walks menu item but then select Walk Calendars as…
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(Part of) The Drone Valley Way (22nd April 2025)
Eighteen of us caught the No. 44 bus to Stonegravels on this bright April morning. We got off the bus at the Lockoford Lane stop and made the ten minute walk to Tapton Lock Visitors Centre on the Chesterfield Canal. We were only on the canal for around half an hour but that was enough…
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Old Whittington and Hundall (April 19th 2025)
Twenty two walkers met for Clive and Judy’s Easter walk. We crossed the railway bridge and across fields to reach a pond and an area known as “Four Acres”. Across a few more fields and we arrived at St Bartholomew’s church in Old Whittington. After following paths around the church we emerged into a series…
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Moss Valley Circular (15th April 2025)
Despite an unspectacular weather forecast, there was a good turnout of 22 members waiting outside the Wesleyan Reform Church. The first part of the walk followed the route of the Dronfield Hall Barn Round Walk across fields and into Cook Spring Wood. We took the steps up the bank just before entering Dowey Lumb and…
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Renishaw Spinkhill and Barlborough (12th April 2025)
Twenty one walkers and one dog met on Smithy Brook Road in Renishaw. This was a hastily arranged change to our meeting point owing to resurfacing of the Trans Pennine Trail car park. We set off across the fields to Spinkhill. Jacqui, our leader, had told us that the name ‘Spink’ in the Derbyshire dialect…
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Chesterfield Canal Restoration Work (8th April 2025)
Twenty walkers met in Morrisons’ car park at Staveley ready for David’s walk. We walked up to the canal towpath known as Cuckoo Way and made our first stop at Staveley canal basin where work is nearly complete on the Waterside Building that will house business units, workshops and cafes. After leaving the towpath we…
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Cutthorpe and Linacre Reservoirs (Saturday 5th April)
Sixteen walkers and one dog met outside the old methodist chapel on Millcross Lane in Barlow. In keeping with recent days it was chilly but bright with the prospect of temperatures rising later in the day. We started out walking up Commonside Road and then talking the footpath on the left just after the road…