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…

Finding an “I” for last week’s walk was a challenge but today’s “J” was a no-brainer.  It had to be Jacob’s Ladder because, apart from Johnnygate, ( which would have been almost duplicating where we were last week) there just wasn’t an alternative. Walking down to Sheffield station in the rain, someone(?) tentatively suggested we…

“Where?” I hear you say…. Read on for the latest in our alphabet of walks. We can confidently say that there are not many places around here beginning with the letter I.  We’d almost settled on Ible, near Wirksworth, which would have been a lovely walk but when we realised we’d probably be spending longer…