| Date
& Start Time |
Approx.
Distance & Duration |
Leader |
Starting
Point |
Description |
Wednesday
8 February 2012
9.30am Car pool from Waterside
Please notify Peter preferably by email if you are likely
to go direct to the starting point of the walk
|
4.8 miles
2 ½ hours
|
Peter
Worboys
T: 01335 361277
worboys@ globalnet.co.uk
Peter Worboys' mobile will be on for 1 hour before start:
07733 200442
|
Approx
10.15am from Three Stags Head pub car park, Darley Bridge
(SJ269886) after arrival of the car pool. |
Circular
walk SE alongside River Derwent & Peak Railway to cross
A6 to ascend a little to Dimple & then descend to cross
Matlock Bridge, turning NW past Peak Railway Station along
Derwent Valley Heritage Way, leaving it near Ashton Farm to
climb 200' over 1/3 mile to Oker, gradually then downhill
to return to Three Stags Head pub. Described as “easy
going with nothing much by way of ascent or descent, mainly
along good paths & tracks through open countryside”.
Some stiles.
Food is available afterwards at Three Stags Head pub in return
for consent to park.
Source: “Derbyshire Magazine January 2012”, but
with different starting point.
|
Wednesday
22 February
9.30am Car pool from Waterside. Please notify
Tony preferably by email if you are likely to go direct to
the starting point of the walk. Non-travelling cars will need
to be relocated because of Shrovetide.
|
4 ¾
miles
2 ¾ hours
|
Tony
Walden
T:01629 540633
tonywalden@ aol.com
Tony's mobile will be on 1 hour before the
start 07774 727056
|
Approx
10.00am
Black Horse pub, Hulland Ward
(SK261469) after arrival of the car pool.
|
Circular
walk starting in a northerly direction descending to Biggin.
Then a steady climb (approx 280' over ½ mile) to Blackwell
continuing on to Kirk Ireton. The walk then turns south past
The Mountain with a spot height of 242M. We then continue
south gradually descending to cross a stream to the east of
Biggin and on to Millington Green. We return to the Black
Horse via a steady climb (a little less steep than that to
Blackwell) ready for a well earned rest and a bite to eat
at the Black Horse. |
Wednesday
7 March
9.30am
|
|
Peter
Worboys |
|
To be
arranged |
| Wednesday
21 March |
|
Bob &
Jackie Nicholson have kindly offered to lead the walk |
|
To
be arranged |
| Some
members of the Walking Group on a snowy January 2010 near
Thorpe |
