Author: Dronfield Footpaths
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The LowerBoardwalk
Wooo Hooo! emergency closure of Dronfield Footpath No.73 & Unstone No.52 from the 13th of September to the 10th of October 2021. This is the Lower Boardwalk, which DCC said they would replace….fingers crossed…. This is the boardwalk from Half Acre Lane, by Metapic Wood, to the industrial estate at the back of the car…
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150 years of Dronfield Station
a walk to celebrate this was planned for last year….cancelled because of you know what, then planned again for last week. It rained so hard, it was postponed until today! 15th August. Graham Gill and Peter Carr had put a lot of work into planning this walk, a walk along the Unstone Line, with lots…
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Damp Thursday evening walk!
This from leader Angela: What we did on our walk yesterday evening…( 5th August) Ten people and one dog met outside the community centre at Unstone ready for our evening walk of We nearly lost the dog and it’s walker to the ‘People and Dogs’ training session which was starting inside the community centre at…
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Walk from Callywhite Lane
Karen Brightmore led us on a very pleasant wander, along from Callywhite to Metapic, then along the lower boardwalk (careful here, there are some damaged boards, which DCC knows about) past the back of the Drone Valley Brewery (open Friday evenings and Saturday afternoons) then up to The Unstone Line. A haunted area, because sometimes,…
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First Walk of the New Season!
On a lovely sunny evening 22 members enjoyed a 4 mile walk in the Moss Valley. The walk went down the valley and then up to the Rotary Bench and onto Hazelbarrow Farm. Everyone was smiling as this was the first DFBS walk for over 15 months. Thanks to Adrian Slome for setting this one…
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Finally, the good news….
Hopefully, we are heading back to ‘normal’, and have now prepared a programme for some walks, but, you will have to wait until July for the programme to start. Paid-up members of DFBS will receive a copy, so we hope all goes well over the coming months. The DFBS Facebook page has been very active,…
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DFBS Calendar [26th Nov 2020]
I have produced a calendar for 2021, which shows photographs I have taken on recent wanderings. The copyright is mine, but am happy to print a cope for you, for a small fee…
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Lockdown walks (October 2020)
We have had to suspend our organised walks this year…but if you are like us, we have carried on walking as much as we can. OK, we are extra-lucky, as we live at the very edge of the village, we have a plethora of good, safe footpaths and quiet lanes to walk around. For instance,…
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Lots of bird noise
right next door to a busy footpath around the Peak Resort…just has to be a baby woodpecker.
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Organised walks suspended
We have had to suspend our organised walks this year…but if you are like us, we have carried on walking as much as we can. OK, we are extra-lucky, as we live at the very edge of the village, we have a plethora of good, safe footpaths and quiet lanes to walk around. For instance,…