Walking Group

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 […]

For our first evening walk of the year, we chose to drive through Cromford to park at Black Rocks, near to a churchyard with very neatly spaced headstones, then crossed the road and walked through a field of buttercups and into a little wooded area. We arrived at Dene Quarry, skirted the perimeter and walked […]

Shillito Wood & Eastern Moors We were blessed with a beautiful, sunny and warm day and began by walking down a quiet road with gorse bushes on our right before tarmac gave way to a grassy path and a poster nailed to a gate gave instruction and information – “Keep your dog on a lead […]