23/01/2022 Sunday Car - Scorton / Rufford

B Walk - Scorton with Chris Cook

7½ miles (12km) with 800ft (244m) Total Ascent

Park at the toilets (now 30p), Scorton (Sat Nav: PR3 1BL), ready for the usual start time of 10.30am.

Proceed up Tithe Barn Lane, crossing fields to Peddar´s Wood and Burn´s Farm. Carry on to Barn Acre Moor and then to the road. Follow the road to Grizedale Bridge Bridge and on through Grizedale Wood. Then over Nicky Nook if the weather is favourable.

HAPPY DAYS.

C Walk - Rufford to Croston and return with Jean Gabbatt

6 miles (9.7km) with easy walking

Meet at St Mary the Virgin CE Church in Church Rd, Rufford (Sat Nav: L40 1TD. Grid Ref: GR: SD464156), ready for the usual start time of 10.30am.

We will cross the Preston/Ormskirk railway line and proceed along Meadow Lane, taking a footpath over fields and along the embankment of New Reed Brook. Reaching Gales Lane we will walk across Mawdesley Moss on a well-defined track. This leads to the outskirts of Croston and then, via a country lane, to the historic heart of the village.

The return route leaves Croston via St Michael´s and All Angels´ CE Church and the old school. Semi-rural lanes lead out into the countryside reaching Moss Lane. At the junction with Sumner´s Lane the route veers right onto a farm track and re-crosses the railway line. We will then walk on to Stephenson´s Lane and follow a drainage ditch and a field footpath to the embankment of the River Douglas. Walking alongside the channel we will reach Meadow Lane and then follow the road back to Rufford church.

19/01/2022 Stroller - Meal at The Arches Embley´s Garden Centre

Meal Only at The Arches Restaurant & Coffee Shop

No walk this month but a meal at The Arches at Embley´s Garden Centre, Liverpool Road, Much Hoole. (Sat Nav: PR4 4RL).

Arrive: 12.15pm for 12.30pm start.

13/01/2022 Thursday Car - Hutton

B Walk - The River Ribble and back with Wilf Turner

7½ miles, Undulating

Meet at Hutton Village Hall (Sat Nav: PR4 5SE), ready for the usual start time of 10.30am.

No details available.

09/01/2022 Coach Walk - Skipton via Gargrave

8:00 start with 16:30 return

A Walk - Noyna Hill & Pinhaw Beacon with Dave Colbert

12 miles (19km) with 1800ft (550m) Total Ascent

This is a genuine Trans-Pennine ‘watershed’ walk starting in the Ribble catchment and finishing in the Aire catchment.

Starting from Foulridge, we begin with a gradual climb to Noyna Hill before heading east to Pike Edge and the Pendle Way at Black Lane Ends. It´s then down into Lowthersdale, crossing the Lancashire – Yorkshire border on the way, passing Raygill to reach The Fold. A further climb takes us to the strangely named Cripple Hole Hill and Pinhaw Beacon, at 388m / 1,273ft the highest point hereabouts. Picking up the Pennine Way for a short distance, we then head for Skipton by way of Tow Top Moor, Ramshaw and Carleton Bridge. 

B+ Walk - Skipton Scury with Meriel Nutter

9 miles (15km) with 1000ft (305m) Total Ascent

Leave the coach at Gargrave. Follow the Penine Way, minor roads and field paths mainly in a northerly direction to Friars Head. Turn right onto a bridle way passing the Giants Graves/ Pillow mounds, then right onto a path to Howson Lapiths and a bridge over Flasby Beck. Take the Dales High Way up Flasby to Sharp Haw and down. In to Skipton.

If the weather is poor or time pressing we will use the path through the woods on the Fell side to Tarn House Farm then join the Dales High Way to Skipton.

B Walk - Scarnber Hill with Dorothy & Chris

8 miles (12.9km) with 800ft (244m) Total Ascent

The walk today starts at Gargrave and passes through some lovely undulating countryside.

We go along Eshton Road to take a footpath through fields to Eshton and on a track that eventually reaches Friars Head. This is a Tudor Manor House and looks very imposing and grand as we approach it. Turning east we climb Scarnber Hill and then descend to the hamlet of Flasby before entering High Wood and later Crag Wood. The woods aren´t dense and have good wide paths which are undulating and gradually drop down to the Grassington Road. Crossing the road here we take a footpath which leads us to Skipton and the coach park.

C Walk - Gargrave to Skipton Canal Walk with Bob Tognarelli

5 miles (9.7km) with very little climbing.

The walk starts from the centre of Gargrave (toilets look to be available on the park). The tourist info says that “Gargrave pulls out all the stops with canal locks, cute cottages, tearooms, pubs and a church” so let´s do a little looking around before starting the walk.

From the main road we will walk along West Street to the canal. Then onto the winding Liverpool and Leeds canal towpath through pleasant countryside all the way to Skipton. Entering Skipton we will continue following the canal, before changing to the springs branch which leads to the Castle, Spring Woods and Eller beck. If time allows we can continue into the Skipton Castle Woods and maybe follow the Eller Beck, before turning back to start enjoying the refreshments on offer in Skipton.