July 2023

Our walk, led this month by Brian and Terri started from Coleorton Woods passing through Ravenstone and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee woods. Our leaders had done a great job with secateurs clearing the route prior to our walk as it was very overgrown with brambles and bushes. We were joined during our coffee break in the QEDJ woods by a family of swans - 10 cygnets!

May 2023

Striders walk on Monday May 15th started from Upper Broughton through tracks of long grass, some mud and wet ground to Grimston. Our coffee stop cafe on the way had unfortunately closed down and the Black Horse in Grimston recently bought by the community was also closed until September. However, we found an excellent stop for lunch at Woodland View glamping with a serve yourself shop and cafe. We continued walking through Wartnaby and Nether Broughton encountering many different animals and birds along the way including goats, deer, and bison. A very interesting walk was the general consensus!

April 2023

Our walk on Monday 17th April from Hall Gates Bradgate Park was led by Margaret. The 9.8 mile route took us through Swithland, Quorn and Woodhouse Eaves and back through Bradgate Park. Very muddy in parts but nevertheless a great walk in fine dry weather.

February 2023

Our February walk started from Market Bosworth country park and led by Alison we visited Sutton Cheney, the Battlefield Centre, Shenton Station and the Ashby canal. A fine day and good conditions underfoot.

Some pictures by members from their own walks at Calke

Some pictures by members from their own walks in 2019 and 2020. Holly Hayes Wood, Hermitage Lake and near Whitwick Church, and from Polly Botts Lane, John Lees Wood and Bradgate Park.

Some pictures from Pembrokeshire in May 2019, when it was almost as quiet as it probably is now

After two weeks of confinement we decided that we needed a walk. As the weather forecast for this morning was good we set off just before dawn. From home we walked to Hoo Ash Roundabout, through Swannington to the A512 and then Mill Lane. We paused at the Mill to watch the sunrise and have a cup of coffee then down to Limby Hall Lane and through fields passing Broomey Husk back to the A511 near Hoo Ash, a distance of just on five miles. The field paths are drying out well now, what a shame we can't make the most of them after all the wet and mud we endured through the winter. We heard a woodpecker hard at work in the copse where the Raper and Fenton mine used to be on Limby Hall Lane.
On the way home we saw the quarter to eight 29 bus. Usually going to Burton the route has evidently been cut back to Swadlincote. The only person on board was the driver. We arrived home by eight o'clock having only met a couple of dog walkers, a jogger and the bin men on Hough Hill. All were passed at distance and we felt safe.