Hello and welcome to our penultimate blog. The excitement is definitely rising as we approach the end of the alphabet and the conditions today could not be bettered for our wander around the Derbyshire Dales. We start with the old familiar 218 bus to Bakewell and the equally familiar route out of town up Butts…

Today’s walk is a loop which could be started and finished from a variety of points and walked either in sections or in its entirety. It features Ox Stones as that’s the closest we can get to an X and it’s definitely the high point of our walk today, both geographically and scenically.  We choose…

What with V for Victory and now W for Win it feels like there’s a certain vibe running through the blog at the moment, and the weather is splendid too. This week’s walk was shorter than it might have been due to constraints on our time but non the less beautiful and with ample opportunities…

No, we’re not referring to a (somewhat out-of -character) recent result for a certain local football team we support…..no we’re talking about Nelson’s flagship, HMS Victory! So read on for more nautical details but first let’s get on with the walk. Having alighted from the 218 at the Chatsworth House car park we make our…

So today we were paid back for the previous three walks with beautiful weather although to be fair, after the first few hours the snow, wind and rain subsided a little and throughout the day we still managed to grab some good views and atmospheric skies. The bus drops us just past Totley Primary School…

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…