Today we took the Hope Valley train but of course the 272 bus is another option to take you to Bamford, or yet another choice is the 257. Across the road from the station we walk past the old toll-road gate at the Bamford bus turn around and cut through to the bridge over the…

We’ll soon be wearing out the seats on the 218 bus, not to mention the footpath along the Monsal Trail!  Yes, yet again, we alight at Pineapple Farm just on the edge of Bakewell and, crossing the road, drop down the steps onto the trail heading in the direction of Hassop Station Cafe. At the…

It’s a familiar start to today’s walk as we alight from the 218 at the sweet shop on the green at Baslow Nether End and head through the park to Edensor. The weather is easily the best so far for any of this year’s alphabet walks and it’s a great tonic for both body and…

In case you noticed we’d not blogged a walk for a few weeks and put it down to our failing to find a Q, well think again….today we visited three! The real reason for the lack of blogs was that half of us was away in the land Down Under enjoying sunny climes and spectacular…

If we’d thought of it sooner we could have included Beeley in today’s itinerary and then the walk might have been subtitled  “A Tour of the Chatsworth Estate Villages” ….but that’ll just have to join the list of walk ideas for another day.  We began by catching the 218 to Baslow and were surprised by…

Slithering our way along icy Sheffield pavements to reach the bus stop it seemed a madcap idea to be heading out to the Peak at all today but actually, once the 272 reached the Hope Valley we could see the paths were clear and the plan to head for Castleton started to seem like a…

Today we start our walk from Miller & Carter at Park Head. The buses that travel this far along Ecclesall Road from town include the 81, 272, 65 or 218. As we alight, we make our first and only encounter of the day with a bull….this is the kind of bull we’re both very happy…

Today we start by catching the 81 to Dore. Dore is the southern terminus of the bus route and we get off at the last stop which is opposite the Co-op. We walk back along Devonshire Terrace Road, past the garage on the corner and take a right along Church Lane where we soon pass…

This week, whilst we felt relieved to have successfully survived the scarcities of I, J and K, we were now faced with a positive glut of Ls to choose from…. and so, we got greedy and chose lots of them! Little Longstone had to be a priority as it’s already a two-for-the-price-of-one opportunity and not…

Today’s walk starts from the small hamlet of Kelstedge which lies on the A632 Chesterfield to Matlock Road, and is part of the parish of Ashover. Since the X17 stops here on its way between Barnsley and Wirksworth we thought it would make for a handy “K” walk. It’s fair to say that “K” has…