Category: Walk Reports
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Ouzle Bank and Ramshaw woods (4th June 2024)
Sixteen walkers and two dogs gathered in the long lay-by between Dronfield and Unstone. It was nice to see two new people join us on the walk. The first part of the walk was quite a steep climb up to Ouzle Bank Cottage. We stopped there briefly to view the information board which is perfectly
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Hedgerow flowers, hops and a quiz (30th May 2024)
Twenty one walkers met in The Hyde Park Inn car park on a blustery Thursday evening. Peter, our walk leader gave us an overview of the route and told us about any hazards that we might come across. We crossed over the By-Pass and turned right down Cowley Lane but after a short distance, took
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Round Walk Tidy Up (28th May 2024)
Despite some rain and a poor forecast, ten hardy souls armed with all manner of gardening tools met on Barnes Lane ready for the annual tidy up of our section of the Dronfield Barn Rotary Walk. With rain predicted for late morning we decided to restrict our efforts to the stretch of the track that
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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