Walking Group

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 […]

December 1st was forecast to be wet, so a number of our regular walkers decided not to walk. When the remaining three walkers met outside church the rain had stopped so we stuck to our plans, loaded boots and walking poles into our car and drove off. We parked in Eyam and ate our sandwiches, […]

We welcomed Julie, a new recruit to our group and set off to Storrs Road car park. Helen was our leader and had planned a short walk around Somersall Park, so we crossed Chatsworth Road, walked down Linden Avenue and towards  Somersall Park Playing Fields, kicking up fresh, dry autumn leaves as we went. A […]

For our 4 mile walk this month, with Bob as the leader, we parked at Timber Lane car park on the Five Pits Trail to walk over numerous fields to Pilsley and return. We passed a big building completely full of piles of pallets and nearby an old, wooden, butter churn. We spotted various empty […]

Six members set off at 4.30pm on a warm day from Coombs Lane, Bakewell down the tarmacked road towards the Monsal Trail. A family at Adelaide House were holding a barbeque, the smoke wafting over towards us as we passed, and a light aircraft flew above. As residential properties were left behind, we walked a […]