WALKING GROUP Heavy rain and a cold wind didn’t put our small group off and on the November walk, after eating our sandwiches in the cars, we began our trek towards Holmewood. As we passed between woodland on our right and the cricket and football pitches on the left, we spotted a kestrel hovering […]
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Walking Group October 2013
WALKING GROUP With many regulars missing, only 4 of us set off from Calver on the October walk. With the Indian summer continuing into October there was certainly no need for our coats on this walk! After a lunch stop where we sat around the tree outside Stoney Middleton’s St. Martin’s Church […]
WALKING GROUP September 2013
With rain threatening, eight of us set off from St Peter’s Edensor on our 4 ½ mile evening walk (The later start due to Father Keith’s last service at St John’s earlier in the day) We walked up through the model village of Edensor, (pronounced Enzor), all the homes are tied houses […]
Walking Group July 2013
WALKING GROUP The route of July’s walk was decided whilst waiting outside church for everybody to arrive – the hot weather prompted us to go for a shorter 4 mile walk, so off we went to the starting point at Great Longstone. After walking through the churchyard of the 13th century St. Giles […]
Walking Group June 2013
CROMFORD WALK AND VISIT TO LEAWOOD PUMPHOUSE Under vast blue skies and feeling the warmth of strong sunshine, we discarded our jackets, donned sunhats and started our walk from Cromford after eating our lunch at the side of the canal. Opened in 1794, plans are afloat to reopen the waterway to Langley Mill, 14 […]