Category: Walk Reports
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Lower Moss Valley Circular (8th October 2024)
Here’s what the walk leader, Graham had to say about his walk. For today’s walk I did an old favourite that I hadn’t done for a couple of years. Starting out from The Swan pub in Ridgeway, I led a party of 15 members along the footpath alongside the Ridgeway School Garden and across three fields…
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Tinkers Corner and Gillfield Wood (1st October 2024)
The weather on the Monday before the walk was horrendous, with flooding all over the midlands. So it was no surprise that a smaller group comprising seven hardy souls met at St Andrews Church for tea and toast. The walk was 5.5 miles long, round Tinkers Corner & Gillfield Wood, coming back via Kitchen Wood.…
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Charnock Woods and Ridgeway Moor (28th September 2024)
Fifteen walkers met in the recreation ground’s car park on a lovely bright autumn morning. Two people were new to the group which was very pleasing to see. In the first half of the walk we passed through three woods, Stonely Wood, Carterhall Wood and Ryall’s Wood. After this we changed direction, heading eastwards towards…
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Wet Lands and the Moss Valley (24th September 2024)
According to the forecast, Tuesday had always looked to be an oasis of dry weather in a very wet period and so it proved to be. Fifteen walkers met at the Coal Aston Wesleyan Reform Church on Cross Street with a good number enjoying hot drinks and a toasted tea cake before the walk started.…
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Stone Circles and Two Moors (21st September 2024)
Sixteen walkers gathered in Shillito Wood car park on a dull Saturday morning with just a hint of rain in the air. We started out walking through the wood so that we could view the medieval wayside cross. This Christian cross is unusual in that it is housed in a square socket hole. In addition…
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Dore Coffin Routes (14th September 2024)
Today’s walk, led by Nicola and Julie, was based on a walk from “On Your Dorestep”, a publication created by the Dore Village Society. The circular walk is the combination of two routes from Dore to Dronfield that were probably used to take the dead for burial before Dore had its own churchyard. Twenty five…
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Bakewell Circular (3rd September 2024)
Eleven walkers and one dog joined Paula for the second of two walks that she has led in the Bakewell area. A good portion of the walk was along the Monsal Trail which we joined by taking a path across the field and then following Coombs Road. The trail was quite busy as usual with…
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Around Hardwick (Saturday 24th August)
Twenty two walkers and one four legged friend gathered by the ponds in Hardwick Park in readiness for a 5 mile walk in the Park and its surrounding area. The forecast was for sunshine and showers and that’s pretty much how it turned out. Many of us hadn’t walked some of the footpaths in this…
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Moss Valley Circular – Pie and Peas (Thursday 15th August)
With long summer evenings soon to be a distant memory, Graham’s walk from Troway Hall Farm is now our traditional way of marking our last Thursday evening walk on the Summer Programme. Around thirty walkers gathered at the farm doing their best to shelter from the rain. As it happens the rain didn’t become too…
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Ouzle Bank and The Peak Resort (8th August 2024)
Twelve walkers and one dog met in the long lay-by between Dronfield and Unstone in readiness for Jane’s walk. The weather was dull and the forecast unpromising but undetered we set off following the Dronfield Round Walk up to Ouzle Bank. On the way there, several of us commented on the lack of poppies in…