Category: Walk Reports

On a grey autumnal morning, ten of our members met in the lay-by on Far Lane. The forecast was for rain after lunch so we had our fingers crossed that it wouldn’t arrive early. An enclosed path across fields took us to our first highlight of the day, Barlow Woodseats Hall. This lovely old building

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Twenty one walkers met in the car park alongside Whirlow Playing Fields. We started the walk by diagonally crossing the playing fields and entering Ecclesall Woods. Rather than carrying on deep into the woods we turned right towards Limb Lane and followed the road all the way into the Village of Dore. On the way

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A huge turnout of thirty walkers and one dog met at Coal Aston Village Hall on a bright and breezy autumn morning. We set off following the Dronfield Barn Round Walk through the fields and into Cook Spring Wood. After passing through the pasture known as “Dowey Lumb” Adrian, our leader, decided not to carry

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Here’s Graham’s walk report on Dave’s walk. Dave led a party of 14 members and a dog (Ruby) on a 5.5 mile walk from the De Rodes Arms at Barlborough which was mainly based on the Chaffinch Trail. We first passed the Golden Gate Memorial and Village Green in Barlborough and crossed over the M1

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Nineteen walkers and one dog met in the car park opposite the cafe in Holmebrook Valley Park on a grey but pleasant enough morning. We made our way to the bottom end of the pond and took a track that followed the Holme Brook. Continuing on through field paths to Hall farm we soon reached

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Eleven walkers and two dogs gathered in the Broombank Park car park all ready for Richard’s Five Ponds walk. Our first pond, located close to Broombank Park, is used by Severn Trent for water treatment. Here, reed beds filter contaminants from former coal mines. From here we followed a track through the trading estate, roughly

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Here’s a report from Peter Carr, the walk leader. Starting from St. Andrews Church Hall on a Tuesday morning of the month where you can enjoy a hot drink and some  toast (other alternatives are available) was a good start to the day on what was originally described by Glyn in our winter walk programme as

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Here is Graham’s report on Chris and Barry’s walk. Todays walk saw five members join our leaders Barry and Chris at Redmires Plantation Car Park for a walk they had previously done about a year ago. Many of the members on this previous walk said that it had been the best walk they had done

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Here’s what Graham had to say about Paula’s walk. Today’s walk saw Paula lead a party of eight on a revised route to her original after two recces on the two previous days. She decided on a five mile alternative which took in Sheephill Road, Lady Canning’s Plantation and out onto Burbage Moor.  As we

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Eleven walkers met outside the Barrel Inn at Bretton looking forward to a walk in classic Peak District countryside. Here’s a summary of the route that was kindly provided by Graham. The route was anti-clockwise. Back along Sir William Hill Road, then left passing Jubilee, Big Moor and Gotherage Plantations, long descent to Stoke Ford

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