23/02/2020 Sunday Car - Lytham

B Walk - Lytham with Three Amigos - Sheila, Christine & Norah

7½ miles (12km) with Easy Walking

Meet at the car park on “The Green”, behind Lifeboat Station (Sat Nav: FY8 1SJ - Grid Reference 366269), ready for the usual start time of 10.30am.

From the Windmill we follow the Coastal Path, passing through the boatyard to join the embankment and stroll the grassy Ribble marshland, Warton Bank and along Lodge Lane passing the Eastham Hall Caravan Site, then we retrace our steps back to the Windmill.

19/02/2020 Stroller - Snowdrop Walk, Lytham Hall

Snowdrop Walk with Bill & Marie

2 to 3 miles with Little Climbing

Each Mid-Week Stroller walk has a destination providing a venue for drinks / snacks / meals etc and starts at 10:30am.

Meet at the main car park at Lytham Hall (Sat Nav: FY8 4JX), then afterwards at the Lytham Hall Café.

13/02/2020 Thursday Car - Chipping

B Walk - Chipping with Alan Gilbert

8 miles (12.9km) with Moderate Climbing

Meet at Chipping pay and display car park (Sat Nav: PR3 2QH), ready for the usual start time of 10.30am.

The walk passes the Old Berry´s chair works leaving the road near a mill pond towards Windy Hill, then northwards crossing pasture to the Burnslack road. We will be negotiating some stepping stones and following the stream towards Lickhurst farm and then Knott Hill and it´s restored lime kiln, stopping for lunch.

After lunch we proceed to Legram Smithy, then Greenland farm to reach the Gibbon Bridge Hotel, which will take us back to Chipping.

Leagram Hall was once an extensive deer park enclosing a boundary known as ‘the pale’ which was a ditch 8 feet wide and 4 feet deep surmounted by a wooden palasade and planted with hawthorn. This is a very attractive and varied walk from the village centre.

07/02/2020 Annual Club Meal

 

Club Meal at Ferraris, Chipping Road, Thornley, near Longridge.

Arrive 7pm for 7.30pm. (Sat Nav: PR3 7PR)

Bookings to: Brenda Holt (see programme for contact details).