15/10//2026 Thursday Car - Grisedale/Calder Vale

October

Start: 10:30am 

B Walk - Grisedale/Calder Vale with Stuart Arnold
X miles / X km with 000 ft / 000 m Total Ascent

Note - The date of this walk has been changed from its original date of 8 October to 15 October.

Meet at LOCATION (Sat Nav: POSTCODE - Map Ref: REFERENCE), ready for the usual start time of 10.30am.

No details available

02/10/2026 Autumn Social Event

 

October

Start: 7:00pm Prompt

Slide Show, Quiz, Raffle & Hotpot Supper.

Tickets cost £12 which includes a Hotpot Supper or vegetarian option (Cheesy Butter Pie), plus a choice of desserts.

There will be a slide show of photographs from club walks, a fun quiz and a Raffle.

Drinks including tea, coffee and alcohol can be purchased on the night.

The venue will be The Longton VM Sports & Social Club, School Lane, Longton, Preston PR4 5ZA starting at 7.00pm.

Tickets available from Committee Members, or email gensecpdwc@gmail.com for details of how to buy tickets. (Vegetarian option available if notified when buying ticket). 

28/09/2026 Annual General Meeting

September

Start: 7:00pm until 9:00pm

The Annual General Meeting is on Monday

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.

27/09/2026 Sunday Car - Location

September

Start 10:30am

B/C Walk - Location with Leader 
X miles (Xkm) with 000ft (000m) Total Ascent

Meet at LOCATION (Sat Nav: POSTCODE - Map Ref: REFERENCE), ready for the usual start time of 10.30am.

No details available

16/09/2026 Stroller - Miller and Avenham Parks

September

Start: 10:30am

Miller and Avenham Parks AND the New TRAM BRIDGE with Barry Hayhurst
2 to 3 miles with little climbing  

Each Mid-Week Stroller walk has a destination providing a venue for drinks / snacks / meals etc.

Meet on the former Preston Sports club car park on South Meadow Lane PR1 8HX at 10:30am.

 

A Stroll through Miller and Avenham Parks to cross the River Ribble via the " New Tram Bridge " and wander down the South Ribble side of the River Ribble .  
Hopefully the bridge will be finished AND open by then ... more details to follow later.

10/09/2026 Thursday Car - Hoghton Beamers Trail

September

Start: 10:30am 

B Walk - Hoghton Bottoms and The Beamers Trail with Lynne Rowett
8 miles / 12.5 km with 900 ft / 273 m Total Ascent

Meet at Chapel Lane, Hoghton PR5 0RY ready for the usual start time of 10.30am - please park on the straight stretch of road after the houses but before the bridge over the railway.

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The Beamers Trail forms part of the much longer Witton Weavers Way.

The walk takes us firstly by the boundary wall of Hoghton Tower, over the railway line and then down to Hoghton Bottoms where we join the Beamers Trail. Initially we will be walking by the River Darwen then through open fields to reach Pleasington Priory from here we drop down to Witton Country Park (a legacy of the Fielden family) for lunch and a toilet stop. We then continue up through the woods and skirt around Billinge Hill before arriving at the Wainwright Stone, we will stop here to take in the views. We then drop down through the fields to return to the river at Hoghton Bottoms then retracing our steps in part to return to the cars.

A lovely walk through hill and dale, fingers crossed for a nice day.

07/09/2026 Committee Meeting

September

Start: 7:00pm until 9:00pm

Committee Meetings are held on Mondays

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.

30/08/2026 Sunday Car - Great Eccleston

August

Start 10:30am

B Walk - Great Eccleston with Chris Airey
7 miles (11.25 km) with little climbing

Meet at St Mary's Church, Hall Lane, Great Eccleston (Sat Nav: PR3 0XN), ready for the usual start time of 10.30am.

Walk through the village down to Cartforth Bridge, onto the river bank then over the footbridge to Hagg Lane, passing Wild Boat Farm and Turnover Hall Farm, then back on the riverbank to The Grapes hotel (detour to point of interest). Return to Great Eccleston via fields and riverbank.

20/08/2026 Thursday Car - Haslingden Grane and Rossendale Way (rescheduled from 13/08/2026)

August

Start: 10:30am 

Note This walk has been rescheduled as temperatures of 30°C are forecast for the original date of 13/08/2026

B Walk - Haslingden Grane and Rossendale Way with Katie Clenshaw (Susan Douglass can no longer lead it)
7.5 miles / 12 km with 991 ft / 302 m Total Ascent

Meet at Clough Head Quarry Free Car Park (BB4 4AT) off Grane Road Haslingden ready for the usual start time of 10.30am.

We climb up Nab Hill then drop down into the valley between Calf Hey and Ogden Reservoirs. We go up Musbury Heights on the other side and along the Rossendale Way then back down along the end of Holden Wood reservoir. For our return we go back up the other side of the valley to skirt Haslingden Moor, again on the Rossendale Way, then drop back to the car park. The walk passes the spoil heaps of the old Musbury Heights Quarry. The chimney (restored in 2004) is part of the scrubbing mill where flagstones were dragged round to smooth their surface. The finished stone was brought down the hillside in tubs supported by a steel rope, on a long, straight incline. There are fabulous views of the valleys and surrounding moors.

19/08/2026 Stroller - Wheelton

August

Start: 10:30am

Wheelton with Barbara Gilbert and Jan Atkins
2 to 3 miles with little climbing  

Each Mid-Week Stroller walk has a destination providing a venue for drinks / snacks / meals etc.

Meet at the top end of Whins Lane, Wheelton, PR6 8HN, near the junction with the A674 Blackburn Road for the usual start time of 10:30am. Parking is available on the roadside and in a small layby on Whins Lane.

The walk is mostly along the canal towpath with a little road walking.

Refreshments will be at The Dressers Arms, 9 Briers Brow, Wheelton, Chorley PR6 8HD. 

Please pre-order from the menus below by the day before the walk by contacting The Dressers Arms directly. They have a booking at 12:30pm in Barbara Gilbert's name.

Phone 01254 830041 

Email - info@dressersarms.co.uk 

16/08/2026 Coach Walk - Hadrian's Wall (Housesteads)

8:00 start with 17:30 return

Note: Tickets for the Autumn Social Event will be available on this coach. See separate entry in the list for more information about the Autumn Social Event.

Stretching 73 miles, from coast to coast, Hadrian’s Wall guarded the northern frontier of Roman Britain for nearly 300 years. We last visited this area in 2018, so this is a rare opportunity to walk with the club along some of the most dramatic sections of the wall.

You may wish to bring extra refreshments for the end of the walk as there are limited options available. There may be coffee carts at both the Housesteads Museum and the car park until 4pm, and cold drinks and snacks to take away at the museum shop until 5pm, but the National Trust cafe at the car park is currently closed.

A Walk - The Wall: Greenhead to Sewingshields Crag with Dave Colbert

12.25 miles / 19.7 km with 2790 ft / 850 m Total Ascent

What on earth persuaded the Emperor Hadrian to construct this wall from the Solway Firth to the North Sea and then secure naming rights?  Our usual sources are strangely silent on this matter, so we must turn to contemporary scribes such as the well-known Romano-British influencer Mancus Scouseä Woolybac for inspiration.  He claimed that the wall, its milecastles and forts arose from rebellious legionnaires protesting about poor transport links to and accommodation at the Empire’s edge.  If they were to see off the pixies, the legionnaires demanded something better than chariots and tarps, so the wall was built, but whether better transport was forthcoming is a moot point, particularly with regard to catering.  Woolybac reports that two visiting dignitaries had a particularly rough time getting there: “Caesar aderat paté, Pompey adsum iam; Caesar sic in omnibus, Pompey sic intram.”

Our hike today follows the central section of said Wall along the Whin Sill, an intrusion of igneous rock known as dolerite that forms a rough, north-facing escarpment.  We start from Greenhead, heading eastward from Holmhead over Walltown Crags to Burnhead, thence along Cawfield Crags to Winshield Crags (at 345m or 1,131ft the highest point on the Wall), Peel Crags and Sycamore Gap, continuing above Crag Lough to Hotbank Crags and Housesteads.  We conclude with an out-and-back to Sewingshields Crags.  Almost all of the walk is on the Pennine Way and Hadrian’s Wall National Trails.

B+ Walk - Hadrian's Wall and the Pennine Way with Stuart Arnold

10 miles / 16 km with 1200 ft / 365 m Total Ascent

It may take about 5.5hrs to complete the walk but one thing is certain the views overall are quite spectacular. We start our walk from Housesteads and quickly join Hadrian's Wall. After about 1/2ml we leave the wall and head north along the Pennine Way, to the edge of the Northumberland National Park. We turn west passing Greenlee Lough National Nature Reserve, through East/West Stone fields and Greenlee Plantations. We now head back to Hadrian's Wall via Gibbs Hill and Hound Hill.

We reach the wall at Turret 39b. Now we walk appropriately 3mls along the Wall back to Housesteads for a brew, beer or tea.

B Walk - Housesteads with Meriel Nutter
8 miles / 15 km with 1000 ft / 300 m Total Ascent

From Housesteads car park, toilets, take main path up to fort and bear right following fort wall up to the Hadrians Wall path. Follow it east to a gate in the wall go through it and turn westerly following a good path with great views of the roller coaster of the wall. We follow this path, crossing the Pennine Way to Peatrigg where the path veers south west to a minor road. Left and up to a car park on Steel Rigg. Here we turn east onto the wall path which we follow to Housesteads Fort. There are some short sharp ascents and descents before we get to Sycamore Gap and the now sprouting stump. There is a lower path but it isn’t as scenic, this path can also be joined after Sycamore Gap. As we enter the woods near the fort there is a path along the top of the wall and alongside it. All the paths are good on this walk.

C Walk - Housesteads to Greenlee Lough Nature Reserve with Dorothy Dobson
6 miles / 9.5 km with 500 ft / 150 m Total Ascent

I am sorry to say that I haven’t reccied this walk, but as long as we keep our eyes on the wall, we shouldn’t get lost!  We leave the coach to pass the Information Centre before taking a steep uphill path to Hadrian’s Wall. We walk alongside the wall for a short while before joining the Pennine Way where we begin a gradual descent to  join the path at the Nature Reserve. Here we walk on the south side of the reserve to West Hotbank before retracing our steps to the Wall and back to Housesteads for refreshments.