Walking Group

As there were only four of us, we piled into Steve’s new car and were interested to hear about all the features shown on the dashboard and how it performs on the road. After a smooth journey, we arrived at Chatsworth House car park, where it is free to park until the middle of March. […]

Gathering outside church, Steve was asked if he had his coat, hat and gloves (see January issue) and wearily answered that he had. Various people must have reminded him. We decided to drive to the Teversal Visitor Centre and begin our walk down the Teversal Trail towards Pleasley Pit, onto the Skegby Trail and finish […]

For our first walk of the New Year, we began our walk from Pleasley Pit. Pleasley in the 7th century was part of the Kingdom of Mercia and part of the Royal Hunting Forest of Sherwood. It derives its name from the Old English and probably means ‘Pleasa’s Clearing’. It belonged to the family of […]

On the first Sunday in December, we all woke up to 2-3 inches of snow in Newbold and Hasland. As we live on a hilly estate, Julie and I decided that we would not be able to drive to church so ‘Church Walk Sunday’ became a Sunday walk to church for us. Once we had […]

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 […]