 New Year Walks, 2017 |
 Round the Block |
 Silverdale, the Greenway, the Greyhound and the Parkway |
 Newcastle Greenway; junction with the Wammy |
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 The reverse, anti-clockwise, direction |
 Enjoying the cold sunshine |
 The Wammy and Cross Heath |
 Walk to town |
 Siverdale, Apedale and the Wammy January 2017 |
 The Greenway with Silverdale Church |
 On the Wammy |
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 Garners, The Greeway, The Wammy, Apedale, Silverdale and the Greenway February 2017 |
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 Oatcakes at the Apedale Heritage Centre |
 Silverdale Church |
 The Greenway |
 The route |
 Cannock Chase March 2017 |
 On Abraham Way |
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 Avoiding the stepping stones |
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 Macclesfield Forest March 2017 |
 Tegg's Nose |
 The goal: Toot Hill |
 Tegg's Nose |
 On Toot Hill |
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 Shutlingsloe |
 Shining Tor |
 Ascent to Nessit Hill |
 Looking back at Toot Hill |
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 The Wammy, Apedale and Silverdale, March 2017 |
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 The Greenway |
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 Tissington Trail March 2017 |
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 Violets |
 Canal Walk: Stoke Station to Longport |
 Trent & Mersey Canal, adjacent to the Ring Road |
 Reflections |
 Near the Etruria New Road |
 James Brindley, the Builder |
 Hartshill Church |
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 Etruria Basin |
 Delamere Forest with Nigel Bird April 2017 |
 On Pale Heights |
 The Mersey Estuary with Stanlow on the right |
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 with Nigel |
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 Widboarclough to Three Shires Head May 2017 |
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 Up the Cumberland Brook |
 with Shutlingsloe behind us |
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 Over Wood Moss |
 Lunch at Three Shires Head |
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 The Roaches |
 Shutlingsloe ahead from Cutthorn Moss |
 Widboarclough Church |
 The old Post Office; formerly a mill |
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 Apedale June 2017 |
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 Lovely weather! |
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 Hanley Forest Park June 2017 |
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 The Skateboard Park |
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 Climbing Rocks |
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 Haughmond Abbey June 2017 |
 The Abbot's Hall |
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 The Refectory |
 Walk up Haughmond Hill Shrewsbury |
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 Caer Caradoc |
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 Back to the Abbey |
 Rodney's Pillar |
 The Chapter House |
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 Apedale, July 2017 |
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 Rushton Spencer & Rudyard Lake July 2017 |
 A lovely day |
 The Lake from Cliffe Park |
 From the Dam |
 Too late to catch a train |
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 The walk back to Rushton Spencer |
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 An overestimate but far enough |
 Shining Tor, July 2017 |
 Shining Tor |
 Chilly on the summit |
 The path to Cat's Tor |
 Shining Tor and Shutlingsloe |
 The Woodland Chapel |
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 On the trudge back up (the Zag) |
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 Shutlingsloe |
 Sutton Common Mast |
 Far enough! |
 Westport Lake to Golden Dale and back. August 2017 |
 Westport Lake |
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 Towards Harecastle |
 Harecastle Tunnel, with the boats waiting to go through |
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 Looking south from Harecastle |
 The Golden Flame iin Golden Dale Park |
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 showing the glass phials of messages |
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 Silverdale, Keele and Home August 2017 |
 The start: home |
 Silverdale Church from the old railway walkway |
 Same, looking back |
 Above the Keele Bypass |
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 Keele Church from Quarry Bank |
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 New Building on the latest development area |
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 Whitmore Road, Lymes Lane, Keele Village, University & home September 2017 |
 The Motorway from the A53 |
 Lymes Lane |
 Keele Church |
 Apedale, one of several walks there in October & November 2017 |
 The wind turbines, powering the Energy Centre |
 Apedale walk |
 Walk aong the Lyme Valley Greenway from the Hospital |
 Cannock Chase October 2017 |
 In the Sherbrook Valley |
 The stepping stones |
 Back along the ridge |
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 The glacial accidental |
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 The Trig. Point |
 Amanita Muscaria |
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 unknown |
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 Walks during the Munich Opera visit November 2017 |
 The Englischer Garten from Studentenstadt to the Chinesisches Turm |
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 Coffe in the cold by the lake |
 Walk in the grounds of Schloss Nymphenberg |
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 The Hauptschloss |
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 In the Viktuellien Markt |
 Walk to Keele via the Greenway and Silverdale November 2017 |
 Silverdale Church |
 The last train has long gone from Silverdale Railway Station |
 Cannock Chase November 2017 |
 The Sherbrook Valley on a fine cold windy morning |
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 The Stepping Stones |
 climbing back to the ridge |
 The Telecom Mast |
 The "Accidental"; Ger: Findling |
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 Walk home from a hospital appointment |
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 Apedale in the snow; end of the year |
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