Walking Group

WALKING GROUP February’s walk started from the High Street, Whitwell on a dry, overcast day but with a cold wind blowing. Walking uphill, out of Whitwell, the seven hardy walkers passed the parishchurchofSt Lawrence. Started in 1200, this church contains the tomb of Sir Roger Manners. Sir Roger lived in the nearby Old Hall which […]

WALKING GROUP   Last month’s walk started from the car park at the Peter Fidler Reserve in Bolsover.  Peter was born in Bolsover and became a famousNorth Americapioneer.  This reserve and Carr Vale Flash Reserve have been reclaimed from the old colliery works and consist of  pleasant walks around large ponds dotted with various bird- […]

WALKING GROUP   Our small group of seven stalwarts set off from a lay-by near the Fox House Inn,  walking into a very cold wind along a well-defined rocky path, which used to be the old Sheffield Road.  Thankfully when we forked left and walked beside a pine plantation we were sheltered from the wind […]

WALKING GROUP By Lucy Dent (aged 12)   The 5 mile walk started in Hope, on a lovely, warm October sunny day.  The walk was lead by Steve and Julie with a little help from me.  The eleven of us, including a dog, started walking down the road to the farm there was plenty of […]

ST. JOHN’S WALK  –   5TH August   Sunday’s walkers were blessed with good weather despite the forecast of rain.  From St. Peter and Paul’s Church, Eckington, we walked across Renishaw Golf Course, past a brick arched causeway –  the remains of a horse drawn railway which carried coal from a local quarry to the canal.  […]