THE WALKING GROUP After a morning of continuous rain, eight of us met at 12pm under cloudy skies to journey to Timber Lane Car Park to walk the paths of the Five Pits Trail, created in 1989. Trish Law confidently led us towards WIlliamthorpe Ponds and on towards Wolfie Pond, a popular fishing venue, ringed […]
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Walking Group January 2020
Walking Group Nine walkers gathered outside Church on the 5th January, all willing to burn off some Christmas calories on our first walk of 2020. It had been decided to make church our start and finish point so we left our cars and set off. Walking through Newbold we picked up Evelyn as we walked […]
Walking Group December 2019
THE WALKING GROUP Ten members ventured out for the monthly walk on a sunny, Sunday afternoon in December. We managed to park our cars in Baslow despite the fact that many people were parking in the area and then walking to Chatsworth market which was being held on that weekend. Apparently, parking was restricted at […]
Walking Group November 2019
Ten walkers gathered outside Church on the 3rd November before leaving in our cars for our starting point at Winster. We had checked the walk the previous Sunday, after Saturday rain saw flooding in Chesterfield and flood warnings issued in other parts of the Peak District. Then we had to drive through flood water to […]
Walking Group October 2019
Sunday morning dawned with heavy rain which looked as if it would continue into the afternoon, but our group decided to chance it by driving to the start of our walk at Great Hucklow. The sun appeared behind grey clouds and stayed with us for the rest of the day. We welcomed two new members, […]