Year Three Summary

Walk 1: March 1 2008 7.5 miles Mow Cop and Little Moreton Hall Carol, Hilary, Tracey, Donna and Jane
Walk 2: April 19 2008 6.5 miles Kelsall Guided Walk Hilary and Jane
Walk 3: May 10 2008 6 miles Lyme Park Tracey Jane, Hilary and Carol
Walk 4: June 21 2008 9.5 miles Scafell Pike Jane, Tracey, Donna, Hilary and Carol
Walk 5: July 12 2008 6.5 miles Hilary +
Walk 6: September 27 2008 5 miles Bosley Cloud Donna, Carol and Hilary
Walk 7: October 11 2008 8.5 miles Wincle Carol, Hilary, Tracey and Jane
Walk 8: November 8 2008 8.5 miles Walking on the Wildside Jane, Tracey, Donna and Hilary
Walk 9: January 24 2009 5.25 miles + Planning Tarporley Hilary, Tracey, Carol and Jane
Walk 10: February 28 2009 7 miles+ Haslington Tracey, Donna, Hilary and Jane

Tarporley

Saturday 24 January 5.25 miles + planning
Hilary, Tracey, Carol + Jane

We were lucky with the weather again. It was a bit cloudy to start with, but as we walked it cleared and we even had some weak winter sunshine.

The ground was still a bit icy at the beginning of the walk.

The first golf club was easy to walk through as we followed the tarmac path. We had to careful when crossing the road as there was a blind corner.

Lost our way slightly, and talked to the farmer. Hilary pulled down his hat as he was being a bit cheeky about us being thick. We had stood by the water trough to have a drink and snack but had missed the stile as we walked away. The fields were quite wet in the area.

Eaton is very pretty with its thatched cottages.

The path then led up though a tree lined passage, with ancient hedges lining either side.

We were directed across the golf course in the walk but the path had been redirected along the edge of golf course, but once again it got confusing and we wandered through the trees, there was no obvious exit so I am not sure we went the right way.


We realised that we were nearly back in Tarpoley and we hadn't eaten our lunch, we sat on a bank under a hedge - probably hawthorn as there were spiky twigs that we sat on. Tracey had the right idea, she had a 'sit-on' cushion - a bit of protection!

The tea shop we were going to stop at was full so we had a wander down the street. We ended up in the Old Fire Station chocolate shop. Very nice carrot cake!

We spent quite a while in the cafe as we did our planning meeting as well.Ben Nevis here we come!!

Redesmere

Saturday 29 December 6 miles

Jane John Katherine Helen, Tracey Chris, Hilary Emma Andrew relatives.

There was lots of parking by the lake as we were early in the day, I think it would be busier in the summer.

Siddington Church was open, it is such a pleasant and attractive church. It was great that it is open for anyone to have a look inside. Everyone agreed that it would be a good church to get married in!

Katherine and Helen pretty much led the way as they had done the walk before.

Sat and stood around the entrance to Crabtree Moss Farm entrance and had a snack. There are crabtrees planted here. The farm house is an interesting building that has been extended, it looked very attractive.
It is interesting to see the countryside around the roads that you have travelled by car.

A34 is always busy, fortunately we only had to go along it a short distance.

We walked around the side of Redesmere and back to the parking place. we finished our lunch with lots of birds trying to beg for a bit of it. As we sat there a flock of geese came and landed on the lake - it was quite spectacular to watch.

Get Together

Christmas Meal

The Kandi Bar Meal and a disco. Live singer at the disco.

Get Together

Jane's House for a girl's night in

Walking on the Wildside

Saturday 8 November 8.5 miles
Jane, Tracey, Donna, Hilary

I woke up to wind and rain - I thought it was going to be another bad weather day for me!

John drove us to the start of the walk in Crewe as it was a one-way walk. He dropped us at Moss Bridge. We started the walk but the railway bridge was closed, we started walking to the next but were told by some workmen on the line that bridge was closed as well! Great start to the walk.

We went back to the bridge and walked along the road - we found a sign telling us that there was a diversion - this information was posted too late. Anyway we were able to start the walk. It seemed like it was going to rain but it didn't.

We needed the OS map to check where we were going.The path wasn't very clear in places.

There were cows in a few fields and one lot came running towards us - they probably thought we had food for them. It is a good job Hilary is comfortable around cows!

Stopped at Winterley for lunch. We were ready to eat. There were benches by the pool so we sat down and had our eats and a chat. The bench sat the 4 of us comfortably.

Met a bull, Hilary said it would be OK to go through the field, but it was looking at us as we came towards the field and making a lot of noise. We did go into the field keeping to the edge with Hilary on the outside protecting us! She bent to pick up a twig and the bull jumped away from us - turned out to be a bit of a softy!

The sun shone as we were passing Haslington Hall the trees were pretty, we could see a bit of the hall - a proper Tudor house.

We crossed the golf course, the trees with their autumn colours looked quite beautiful in the sunshine. Tracey got her wish to walk through a wood and the coloured leaves.

There were a lot of stiles on this route - it managed to show us unfit we have become!!

We arrived at Weston and thankfully there was a pub by the church where we had tea and shared some cake.

Wincle

Saturday 11 October 8.5 miles
Carol, Hilary, Tracey, Jane

A good walk - varied - river - woodland - moorland

We parked on the road near the pub, just by the start of the walk. We climbed the steps and went into the field, two dogs came running towards us barking very loudly - I was not at all happy but tried to stay calm. Fortunately Tracey realised they were wagging their tails and said 'hello' to them and then they went away (thank goodness).

Carol needed to get home early so we cut the walk short - we tried to follow the alternative route but went slightly wrong so had to walk along a windy bit of road - there were quite a few cars.

We had lunch by the church as there was a place to sit. The bench was quite small so we also used a large raised gravestone as a seat. There was a very attractive small primary school next door with an excellent adventure playground!

We walked a section of the Gritstone Trail. The woodland trees were just starting to change colour - autumn has arrived.

We then walked part of the Dane Valley Way, through the meadows by the river past the fishery. Drizzle started to get us wet, but we were near the end of the walk. The cloud had certainly come down as we went back up the road - visibility was considerably reduced.