Category: Walk Reports
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Dronfield Woodhouse and the Lea Brook Valley (23rd May 2024)
On a cool and cloudy evening, six of our members gathered in the Dronfield Woodhouse Sports and Social Club car park. Our leader, Joe is very familiar with all the green spaces and cut-throughs in this area, so he had put together an urban walk that linked many of the green spaces including the Lea
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Holmesfield Circular (16th May 2024)
Owing to a heavy downpour just before the walk was due to start, only a small group of six walkers met outside the co-op for the second of our Thursday evening walks. To begin the walk we took the path that runs alongside Gosforth Fields all the way to Carr Lane. We then joined Barnes
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Barnes Lane Loop (9th May 2024)
Twenty three walkers and a four legged friend met at the Dronfield Woodhouse Sports and Social club in readiness for our first Thursday evening walk of the year. The weather was ideal for walking and there wasn’t a waterproof in sight. We headed off across the playing field and worked our way through the estate
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Dawn Chorus Walk (5th May 2024)
Here’s the walk leader, Graham’s views on the day. On National Dawn Chorus Day 2024, eight DFBS members met up with two Dronfield Natural History Society members at 4.30am at Shillito Wood car park for our annual joint Dawn Chorus Walk. It was a perfect morning for listening for birdsong, not too cold and not
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Porter Brook Circular (30th April 2024)
On a glorious springtime morning, eighteen walkers gathered for Paula’s walk. Everyone was relieved that there were no cows in the field, which made for a lovely easy walk down to Wire Mill. The return leg was a steady walk uphill on the other side of the valley passing Mayfield Alpacas Animal Farm and back
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The Drone Valley Way (27th April 2024)
Peter Carr, the walk leader, has kindly provided a full report on this walk. The Drone Valley Way, devised twenty years ago by Barry Jex and the Society was to be our walk today. It turned out to be a walk that not many of those in the group had done before so it was
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Old Brampton and Linacre (16th April 2024)
I couldn’t make the walk but one of the walk leaders, Joe, has given me a few pointers. There were 23 people on the walk, which is another excellent turnout. Joe mentioned that many of the group weren’t familiar with the particular entrance to Holmebrook Valley Park that we used for our start point. This
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Grasscroft Wood Circular (13th April 2024)
This is Graham’s report on the Grasscroft Wood Circular that he guided us round. Due to a broken leg David Scrivener was unable to lead this walk so in stepped Joe, Pete H and Graham, who recced David’s intended route a few days in advance. Starting out at Carlisle Close at Sheepbridge the party of
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Moss Valley Circular (9th April 2024)
Fifteen walkers met at Coal Aston Wesleyan Reform Chapel on a cool Tuesday morning. Several of us enjoyed a hot coffee or tea with a toasted hot cross bun before we started. Adrian, our walk leader, warned us that there would be mud, despite the first section of the walk being along Owler Car Lane
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The Lost Pubs Walk (6th April 2024)
Twenty two walkers gathered at the long lay-by between Dronfield and Unstone for a walk in the Summerley and Apperknowle area with the purpose of identifying locations that once were public houses. We set off following the Dronfield Barn Round Walk through the fields to Summerey Lower Road. After crossing another field and reaching Summerley