Category: Walk Reports
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Holmesfield Circular (20th July 2023)
Eighteen walkers met in the top car park of Dronfield Woodhouse Sports and Social Club for a 4 mile walk led by Vanessa and David. During a week of unsettled weather we were fortunate to have a good prediction of sunny intervals and no rain for the evening’s walk. We worked our way through the…
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Five Ponds Walk (15th July 2023)
Seven walkers met at Broombank Park on the Sheepbridge Industrial Estate in readiness for Richard’s popular five ponds walk. This year Richard had made some alterations to the walk owing to two very overgrown footpaths. The first pond was only a short distance from our start point at the end of Loverose Way. Loverose Way…
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Bradway – Holmesfield Circular (13th July 2023)
Sixteen eager walkers gathered at Dronfield Woodhouse Sports and Social Club on a warm and bright Thursday evening. I was leading the walk and had found it to be very muddy when I did my recce, but actually, it wasn’t that bad on the day. We set off across the recreation ground towards Barnes Lane,…
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Dore – Dronfield Coffin Routes (8th July 2023)
Nine of us gathered outside the Barnes Lane shops feeling a little nervous about the predicted thundery showers that were forecast. Nevertheless we were looking forward to discovering new footpaths in an area we don’t often visit. Our walk leaders were Nicola and Julie. Nicola had found this walk on the Dore Village Society website…
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Ouzel Bank, Peak Resort and Unstone (6th July 2023)
Nineteen walkers gathered at the end of Half Acre lane on a pleasant Thursday evening. It’s always nice to get the uphill out of the way early on, which is exactly what we did, climbing gradually up to Ouzel bank where we stopped to admire the extensive views. After taking the track alongside the wood…
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Silverhill and Hardwick country parks (4th July 2023)
Ten of us met up on the approach road to the Hardwick Inn. This is an area that the group hasn’t walked in recently so we were all looking forward to discovering new footpaths. Our leader, Ted had done a recce of his intended walk a few days earlier and had found some footpaths that…
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Barbrook Reservoir and Stone Circles (29th June 2023)
Fourteen walkers met at Shillito Wood car park on a pleasantly warm and bright Thursday evening. Richard and Phoebe were a.re walk leaders. Our first stop was the Stone Cross which was only a short distance from the car park. Joe told us about the history of the cross and mentioned that it was much…
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Frith Wood, Unstone and Summerley (22nd June 2023)
Around twenty walkers gathered at Coal Aston Village Hall for Adrian’s walk on a warm and humid Thursday evening. We set off through the Holmesdale estate to reach the Firthwood Road entrance to Frith Wood. After a pleasant walk through the wood we joined Callywhite Lane and on to our first stop Metapic Wood. This…
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Tour of old Dronfield (20th June 2023)
Twenty of us met up at the public car park next to Sainsbury’s for what has become an annual fixture in our walks programme. John gave us a tour of the old part of Dronfield, starting on High Street, moving down to Chesterfield Road via Soaper Lane and then on to Mill Lane. The route…
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Big Moor Circular (17th June 2023)
A small but select group of walkers met at Shillito Woods car park in readiness for a 5 mile walk on the Eastern Moors. Our first port of call was an ancient stone cross in Shillito Woods. Joe pointed out that the cross is unusual in that it is set in a square socket hole.…