March
Start: 10:30am
Start: 10:30am
2 to 3 miles with Little Climbing
Each Mid-Week Stroller walk has a destination providing a walk and venue for drinks / snacks or meal and starts at 10:30am
Meet at (Sat Nav: ).
No details available.
We are based in Lancashire in the North West of England but our walks take us round the UK's National Parks & National Landscapes, the Lake District, Yorkshire Dales, Peak District & North Wales. *** To view the next walk - Please scroll to the bottom ***
19/03/2025 Stroller - Location
2 to 3 miles with Little Climbing
Each Mid-Week Stroller walk has a destination providing a walk and venue for drinks / snacks or meal and starts at 10:30am
16/03/2025 Sunday Car - Catforth
March
Start: 10:30am
6½ Miles / 10.5km with flat walking
Meet at Rosemary lane junction with Crown lane (Sat Nav: ), ready for the usual start time 10:30am.
The walk is 60% lanes 40% fields.
13/03/2025 Thursday Car - Location
March
Start: 10:30am
Miles / km with ft / m Total Ascent
Meet at (Sat Nav: ), ready for the usual start time 10:30am.
No details available.
03/03/2025 Committee Meeting
March
Start: 7:00pm Finish 9:00pm
Committee meetings are held on Mondays.
Start at 7:00pm and finish at 9:00pm.
Start at 7:00pm and finish at 9:00pm.
All members are welcome.
We meet at the Over 60s Club, Priory Lane, Penwortham.
Preston PR1 0AR.
Preston PR1 0AR.
02/03/2025 Coach - Hayfield
March
8:00 Start with 17:00 Return
12 Miles / 19.1km with 2,200ft / 670m Total Ascent
From Hayfield, we proceed up Kinder Road and pass the terraced house in which actor Arthur Lowe was born (Captain Mainwaring of “Dad’s Army” fame). Keep an eye out for a blue plaque on the wall which indicates the exact house.
Soon after, we join the “Snake Path” on our left and follow this in the footsteps of the 400 or so ramblers who, on 24 April 1932, took part in the Kinder Mass Trespass.
The ramblers were seeking the right of working class people to roam freely on the open moorlands. At that time, all of the Kinder massif was privately owned by and for the exclusive use of wealthy landowners and their grouse shooting. Some 19 years later the Peak District became the UK’s first national park.
As we reach Middle Moor shooting cabin, instead of following the main tourist (and trespass) route up William Clough, we will today contour slightly left before ascending Leygatehead Moor and summit out at the top of Mill Hill (544m).
From here, heading in a south easterly direction, we descend to the col at the head of William Clough, before joining the now well trodden path that contours the western edge of the Kinder plateau. We follow this, first to Kinder Downfall and then onwards to Kinder Low (633m).
To complete the round, we continue to Brown Knoll (569m), South Head (494m) and then to the curiously named Mount Famine (473m). The hills name originates from the period of the Inclosure Acts (1773-1859) when tenant farmers struggled to make a living from the poor farming land.
From Mount Famine, we follow the descending ridge line towards Elle Bank and then back to Hayfield in time for refreshments.
We’ll aim to complete the walk today, hopefully without having trespassed on anyone’s land, which of course will be “Strictly Prohibited” and also preferably without any of the group being arrested!
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7½ Miles / 12km with 1,500ft / 457m Total Ascent
We leave the car park following the Sett valley trail to Birch Valley and then take the pennine bridle way to Lantern Pike. We then head to Knarrs after which we cross the A624 and follow the path over Middle Moor to the shooting cabin. We then bear right down snake path back into Hayfield.
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19/02/2025 Stroller - Goosnargh
February
Start: 10:30am
2.8 miles with Little Climbing
Each Mid-Week Stroller walk has a destination providing a walk and venue for drinks / snacks or meal and starts at 10:30am
Meet at Goosnargh village hall, Church Lane (Sat Nav: PR3 2BH ), Toilets are available.
The walk will be a circular one of 2.80 miles on bridleways and quiet minor roads with good views (weather permitting) across to the Bowland Fells. There will be minimal climbing. Afterwards we will have lunch at the Grapes Inn which is just 100 yards from the Village Hall.
16/02/2025 Sunday Car - Tarleton
February
Start 10:30am
Tarleton with Margaret Oliver
Miles / km with ft / m Total Ascent
Meet at (Sat Nav: ), ready for the usual start time 10:30am.
No details available.
13/02/2025 Thursday Car - Wayoh and Turton Tower
February
Start:10:30am
6½ Miles / 10.5km with ft / m Total Ascent
Meet at Jumbles car park (Sat Nav: BL2 4JS), ready for the usual start time 10:30am.
Walk taking in Jumbles, Wayoh and Turton Tower. All good paths no climbing. It's a lovely area.
See you all there. Happy Days.
02/02/2025 Coach - Grasmere
February
8:00 Start with 17:00 Return
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19/01/2025 Coach - Kirkby Lonsdale
January
8:00 Start with 16:30 return
Please Note: There will be no local walk today as this has been replaced by the coach outing.
11¾ Miles / 19km with 2,500ft / 765m Total Ascent
Middleton Fell is a bit of an oddity; wedged between the Lune Valley and the deep-cut trench of Barbondale, it lies within the Yorkshire Dales National Park yet geologically is an eastward extension of the Silurian slate landscape of the South Lakes. For many years Calf Top, the highest point, was thought to be just shy of 2,000 feet, but recent surveys have shown it to be 2,000 feet exactly! Unfortunately, access points are quite limited, so how best to tackle it from the south?
We start from Hodge Bridge on the A683 and walk through the village of Barbon to the church before crossing Barbon Beck. The climbing starts from Eskholme up an increasingly well-defined, curving ridge to the summit of Castle Knott (538m/1,765ft), beyond which lies Calf Top (610m/2,000ft) and its Trig Point. Unfortunately, the eastern and southern flanks of Middleton Fell are extremely steep, so we will retrace our steps over Castle Knott and back to Barbon before heading to Kirkby Lonsdale by way of Fellfoot Road (a track) and High Casterton.
If weather conditions are poor (heavy rain/snow and/or strong winds) we will do a longer version of the B+, starting from Casterton. This is about the same length but with just over 150 meters / 500 feet less climbing.
B+ Walk – Barbon Low Fell with Sue Banister
9 Miles / 14.5km with 1,345ft / 410m Total Ascent
We leave the coach a few miles north of Kirby Lonsdale on the A683 at Hodge Bridge then head east through Barbon village and into the grounds of Barbon Manor to access Barbondale. After crossing the beck at Blindbeck Bridge we head south on a bridleway to Bullpot Farm.
This is home to the Red Rose Caving and Pot Holing Club and you are standing over the longest caving system in Britain known as the Three Counties system. You can go underground in Yorkshire, pass under Lancashire, and emerge in Cumbria!
From Bullpot we have a short stretch of lane before heading up the fell to the trig point and highest point of Barbon Low Fell at 1437ft (438m).
We then cross to the cairn on Brownthwaite Pike 1382ft (421m) after which its downhill back to Kirby via Blindloss Farm, Cragg House Farm, and Latha Lane.
B Walk – The Limestone Stacks of Uberash Breast with Stuart Arnold
8 Miles / 12.9km with 700ft / 213m Total Ascent
This is a linear walk which will start as we leave the bus after exiting the motorway at Junction 36. We will join the canal and follow it South for about 1½ miles. We then cross the A6070 and at Holme Park Farm we join a path which takes us round the base of Holmepark Fell. This then leads across Uberash Plain to pass Keller well and round Hutton Roof Crags into the village of Hutton Roof.
Following field paths we pass Longfield Barn, Biggins Home Farm, High Biggins and Wood End eventually reaching Kirby Lonsdale and the end of another excellent walk.
C Walk – A walk around Casterton with Dorothy Dobson
6 Miles / 9.7km with Little climbing
Starting from Devil’s Bridge (Toilets 50p card only) we cross over A683 to walk up Laithe Lane, passing the caravan park and golf course. We then go across the main road again to join a footpath over the fields to Casterton .
Depending on the weather I may take an alternative route at this point.
However this is the way I reccied it, so, on reaching the church we branch left along a lane and under a disused railway bridge to Langthwaite.
From here we take a field path which skirts the bottom of Leck Fell, then back on the road we pass Fell Yeat Farm before going along the lanes to Devil’s Bridge and into the town.
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