Walking Group

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, […]

The Walking Group was unable to meet in April, but the May walk will take place on Sunday 5th May, when we will meet outside the church gates at our Summertime of 4pm. Anyone wishing to join us will be made very welcome.

As there were only four of us, we piled into Steve’s new car and were interested to hear about all the features shown on the dashboard and how it performs on the road. After a smooth journey, we arrived at Chatsworth House car park, where it is free to park until the middle of March. […]

Gathering outside church, Steve was asked if he had his coat, hat and gloves (see January issue) and wearily answered that he had. Various people must have reminded him. We decided to drive to the Teversal Visitor Centre and begin our walk down the Teversal Trail towards Pleasley Pit, onto the Skegby Trail and finish […]

For our first walk of the New Year, we began our walk from Pleasley Pit. Pleasley in the 7th century was part of the Kingdom of Mercia and part of the Royal Hunting Forest of Sherwood. It derives its name from the Old English and probably means ‘Pleasa’s Clearing’. It belonged to the family of […]