Walking Group

We were joined on this walk by Emily, Julie’s niece and Maisie, a delightful corgi-cross with a particularly wobbly bottom. We parked near Ashford church and at 4.30pm began our walk, passing The Ashford Arms and noticing a lovely display of wisteria hanging over the porch of a stone cottage, before crossing the A6020. We […]

We arranged to meet at 2.30pm for this walk because the APCM was to be held in church at 11.30. Bob chose a short walk, starting from the 5 Pits Trail and we strode off under abrilliant blue sky and warmed by the spring sunshine. Almost immediately we were on a loose, gravel surface and […]

Four walkers gathered outside Church on the 2nd March on a clear, sunny afternoon. There was free parking at Chatsworth due to the house being closed, so we decided to start our walk from their main car park. The fine weather and free parking had brought everybody out so there were few parking spaces available. […]

We had difficulty finding a parking place, ending up in a layby, half a mile past Hathersage which extended our walk, but the weather was bright and sunny so we set off for a short, leisurely amble. Steve led us down the busy main road to the centre of the village, passing Brookfield Manor – […]

The weather forecast throughout the week predicted bad weather preceding the scheduled church walk on the first Sunday of January. And so it turned out, we woke up to two inches of snow in Chesterfield as did much of the rest of the country. As we live on a hilly estate Julie and I decided […]