Walking Group

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 […]

On the first Sunday in December, we all woke up to 2-3 inches of snow in Newbold and Hasland. As we live on a hilly estate, Julie and I decided that we would not be able to drive to church so ‘Church Walk Sunday’ became a Sunday walk to church for us. Once we had […]

We welcomed a new member and drove to Tapton Lock for our walk at the side of the canal and on to Brimington. Unfortunately, we had to circle around for a while as Chesterfield Football Club were playing Portsmouth for a televised match and cars were parked everywhere. We had just started to walk when […]

We set off on a warm, sunny afternoon for our planned “Blackberry Walk” in the New Whittington area; a walk we have enjoyed a couple of times before. On the previous two occasions this walk had provided some unwanted excitement – on the first a set of car keys was presumed lost, then last year […]

The Walking Group – Whitwell Churches Loop Our walk began outside St. Lawrence Parish Church, the second church built in this area and mentioned in the Doomsday Book as serving Whitwell and Barlborough. It dates from 12th century. The chancel and transept date from the first half of the 14th century and in the north […]