Saturday Walk

What a glorious days walking at Hurst Green. Thank you John for leading. Beautiful scenery and the company couldn’t be beaten. Thank you.

Starting in the model village of Barrow Bridge, a picturesque place, built in early 1800s to house the workers of Dean Mills. Carrying on from here, we have a stroll through Smithills Hall estate and country park, and on into Longworth Clough, a wooded valley leading up to Belmont village Read more

Levens, Brigsteer Woods, Sizergh – a Circular Walk of approx. 6 milesExpect some mud…sorry, but I have changed the route for the better…We’ll have a coffee break at Truckhaven on the way.Depending on the weather I may make a change to the start. A possible climb behind The Strickland Arms Read more

It was a lovely walk with quite a few ups, beautiful scenery, and a friendly group of people walking. Thanks Simon.

Christina’s funeral took place today, the 20th of March, at Carleton Crematorium (if you wish you can leave a comment at the bottom of the page). This is what her daughter Cathy posted on our Facebook page, 27thFebruary: And here is the Order of Service from today at Carleton Crematorium:

The morning stop will be at Morrisons at Preston Docks. The coach will then drop us at the start of the walk. We walk along the banks of the River Ribble until we are opposite the Steam Railway where we then turn inland, heading South and stopping for lunch before Read more

We will have our coffee/tea stop at Sainsburys in Lancaster, after which we cross the Millennium Bridge and join the disused railway line which we follow into Morecambe. We enter Morecambe near a large Morrisons store which is handy for toilets before lunch. We then cross Marine Road to get Read more

A walk of about 5 miles with some inclines, good underfoot with 90% on quiet country lanes. The morning stop will be at Bull Beck Picnic Site where there are toilets and a kiosk for refreshments. On our return to Wray there is a pub and a cafe available.

Tomorrow’s planned walk at Stanah/Skipool would have been very muddy and probably under water, so Chris has decided that we’ll stick mainly to the lanes. We start from the car park as planned at 1pm.Please let others know about this alteration.Here are some photos from today’s recce.

On a chilly 10th of December about a dozen of us met at Lytham Station before walking through Witch Wood and then heading towards the White Church at Fairhaven. We had a look at the partly frozen Fairhaven Lake and then walked back along the front to Lytham Windmill, before Read more