Category: News Articles
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New look to website
You will have noticed that the website has a different look to it. All the familiar content is there but we’ve changed how the content is displayed. Another change is that the walks Calendar/Programme has some additional features e.g. a calendar month view and additional space to describe the walk. If you do need to…
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Not Really a Pub Crawl Walk, 19th June 2022
Recce’d this Saturday’s Not Really a Pub Crawl walk…part of it anyway….and you deffo need whole leg covering up Nettle Alley…Checked the Beestro….lots to eat and drink there…plus loads of seating… Other eating/drinking establishments are also available in Troway.
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Bennerley Walk, 2nd July
This from David Blackburn…A problem on Saturday 2nd JULY for the walk using the train from Dronfield to have a look at the Bennerley Viaduct.I’m afraid I shall have to cancel it as there will be no trains – see info from Network Rail below. Although there is a reference to a replacement bus ,…
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Check your spam!
Paid-up members of the group have had the latest newsletter and walks programme emailed to them….if you have not yet seen yours, please check your spam box….
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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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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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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,…