Walking Group

WALKING GROUP   Last month’s walk started from the car park at the Peter Fidler Reserve in Bolsover.  Peter was born in Bolsover and became a famousNorth Americapioneer.  This reserve and Carr Vale Flash Reserve have been reclaimed from the old colliery works and consist of  pleasant walks around large ponds dotted with various bird- […]

WALKING GROUP   Our small group of seven stalwarts set off from a lay-by near the Fox House Inn,  walking into a very cold wind along a well-defined rocky path, which used to be the old Sheffield Road.  Thankfully when we forked left and walked beside a pine plantation we were sheltered from the wind […]

WALKING GROUP By Lucy Dent (aged 12)   The 5 mile walk started in Hope, on a lovely, warm October sunny day.  The walk was lead by Steve and Julie with a little help from me.  The eleven of us, including a dog, started walking down the road to the farm there was plenty of […]

ST. JOHN’S WALK  –   5TH August   Sunday’s walkers were blessed with good weather despite the forecast of rain.  From St. Peter and Paul’s Church, Eckington, we walked across Renishaw Golf Course, past a brick arched causeway –  the remains of a horse drawn railway which carried coal from a local quarry to the canal.  […]

We parked outside Wigley School and as it was raining we ate our sandwiches in the cars,before setting off in the warm sunshine along a very muddy ,ancient trackway through a wood.Unfortunately,one of our party slipped and in order to avoid a mucky mess threw himself to the side-into a bank of nettles. We crossed […]