Walks 2017


New Year Walks, 2017

Round the Block

Silverdale, the Greenway, the Greyhound and the Parkway

Newcastle Greenway; junction with the Wammy


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


Garners, The Greeway, The Wammy, Apedale, Silverdale and the Greenway
February 2017


Oatcakes at the
Apedale Heritage Centre

Silverdale Church

The Greenway

The route

Cannock Chase
March 2017

On Abraham Way



Avoiding the stepping stones


Macclesfield Forest
March 2017

Tegg's Nose

The goal: Toot Hill

Tegg's Nose

On Toot Hill


Shutlingsloe

Shining Tor

Ascent to Nessit Hill

Looking back at Toot Hill


The Wammy, Apedale and Silverdale, March 2017


The Greenway


Tissington Trail
March 2017



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


Etruria Basin

Delamere Forest
with Nigel Bird
April 2017

On Pale Heights

The Mersey Estuary with Stanlow on the right


with Nigel




Widboarclough to Three Shires Head
May 2017


Up the Cumberland Brook

with Shutlingsloe behind us



Over Wood Moss

Lunch at Three Shires Head



The Roaches

Shutlingsloe ahead from Cutthorn Moss

Widboarclough Church

The old Post Office; formerly a mill


Apedale
June 2017


Lovely weather!



Hanley Forest Park
June 2017


The Skateboard Park


Climbing Rocks


Haughmond Abbey
June 2017

The Abbot's Hall



The Refectory

Walk up Haughmond Hill
Shrewsbury


Caer Caradoc


Back to the Abbey

Rodney's Pillar

The Chapter House



Apedale, July 2017





Rushton Spencer & Rudyard Lake
July 2017

A lovely day

The Lake from Cliffe Park

From the Dam

Too late to catch a train


The walk back to Rushton Spencer


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




On the trudge back up (the Zag)


Shutlingsloe

Sutton Common Mast

Far enough!

Westport Lake to Golden Dale and back.
August 2017

Westport Lake


Towards Harecastle

Harecastle Tunnel, with the boats waiting to go through



Looking south from Harecastle

The Golden Flame
iin Golden Dale Park


showing the glass phials of messages





Silverdale, Keele and Home
August 2017

The start: home

Silverdale Church
from the old railway walkway

Same, looking back

Above the Keele Bypass


Keele Church from Quarry Bank


New Building on the latest development area



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


The glacial accidental



The Trig. Point

Amanita Muscaria



unknown



Walks during the Munich Opera visit
November 2017

The Englischer Garten
from Studentenstadt to the Chinesisches Turm


Coffe in the cold by the lake

Walk in the grounds of Schloss Nymphenberg


The Hauptschloss




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



The Stepping Stones

climbing back to the ridge

The Telecom Mast

The "Accidental"; Ger: Findling


Walk home from a hospital appointment


Apedale in the snow; end of the year

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