Walking Group

For our 4 mile walk this month, with Bob as the leader, we parked at Timber Lane car park on the Five Pits Trail to walk over numerous fields to Pilsley and return. We passed a big building completely full of piles of pallets and nearby an old, wooden, butter churn. We spotted various empty […]

Six members set off at 4.30pm on a warm day from Coombs Lane, Bakewell down the tarmacked road towards the Monsal Trail. A family at Adelaide House were holding a barbeque, the smoke wafting over towards us as we passed, and a light aircraft flew above. As residential properties were left behind, we walked a […]

A robin greeted us as we strode towards the broad path leading to the Stockley trail on a tranquil summer’s evening. Sunlight was filtering through the trees and as we moved into a field, we disturbed a pheasant that rose from the long grass with an angry squawk. We walked past “Breaking the Mould”, an […]

For our June late afternoon / evening walk the weather was kind to us, the sun was shining and the temperature ideal for our walk. The five of us met outside church and decided on a circular walk from Ashover Church. Earlier in the week Bob and Evelyn had walked the route in rain with […]

Since it was completed in 1984, the Five Pits Trail has become well known as a place to go for a short walk in our delightful county, so we left the Timber Lane car park at 4.30pm to begin our first summer evening walk of the year – and the weather was glorious. Our leader, […]