Category: News Articles
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Opportunity to help others
ARUK Explorer is a 26-mile hike and walk across the Peak District, with the inaugural event taking place on Saturday 21 September 2019 (World Alzheimer’s Day). Some of your members may already have signed up to take part in the event, but others may just want to be involved because they love walking or running,…
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Adopted Path Tidy Up
on Saturday 15th June The weather will NOT put us off….we will be there, 10am, near the Talbot on Barnes Lane…Bring gloves, shears, secateurs…and we will see you there! Later….1pm, Saturday….7 of us turned out to chop, cut, prune, rake, tidy…. SO WHERE WERE THE REST OF YOU??? I know you all appreciate nice pathways…
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Summer Walking…
click on the link on the 2019 Summer walks programme page… There is to be an emergency closure of Unstone Footpath 17 between 11th June 2019 and 1st July 2019. This links the driveway past Siscar through the woods and across the field to meet the pathway from Hundall to Mill House.
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Update on the Owl pellet
On the Stone Circle walk, we spotted an owl pellet. It was carefully dissected, and these were found!
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Tuesday 12th February walk
For those of you who are planning on taking part in Joe Kelsall’s canal walk, and may not know where to meet: click on http://www.chesterfield-canal-trust.org.uk/…/hollingwood-h…/ This walk is a 10am start.
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I received this: Please help if you can
Richard I dont normally bother with petitions, which overall are ineffective. But I am making an exception in this case. I know the family of the young man concerned,have met him on a few occasions and would like to encourage him. His aim of trying to reduce litter is , I am sure , one…
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Christmas in Dronfield
Hello DFBS walkers. Dronfield Parish Church is having a Christmas Tree Festival, 30th November to 9th December. DFBS is taking part. Our tree is now up and decorated, so please pop along, and have a look at this, plus 99 others! We have had some absolutely superb decorations made by many of our members, thank you all…
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The Winter programme
The Winter Programme, first walk Tuesday October 16th, has been posted on all (?) the local notice boards….it’s bright orange. If you know of a notice board that still has a Summer (green) prog, and not an orange Winter one, please let me know. I will get one pinned up.
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Replacing a broken seat at Barlow ponds
As part of our aims, a couple of years back, Graham Gill, Peter Carr and I ventured to Barlow Ponds to replace the broken seat top, placed a dozen years ago in memory of Roy Kitson. The seat now has a nice new top, and overlooks the top pond… a regular stop on our walks out…
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Cheque for Dronfield Hall Barn
Representatives from DFBS presented a cheque for £100 towards the maintenance of the Dronfield Round Walk, formerly the Dronfield Rotary Round Walk, which is now under the auspices of Dronfield Hall Barn. DFBS Secretary Karen Brightmore handed over the cheque to Maureen Taylor, the Lead Trustee from The Barn. DFBS has also adopted a section…