![](thumb_2017_01_010t_New%20Year_Walks.jpg) New Year Walks, 2017 |
![](thumb_2017_01_011.jpg) Round the Block |
![](thumb_2017_01_013.jpg) Silverdale, the Greenway, the Greyhound and the Parkway
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![](thumb_2017_01_015.jpg) Newcastle Greenway; junction with the Wammy |
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![](thumb_2017_01_021.jpg) The reverse, anti-clockwise, direction |
![](thumb_2017_01_023.jpg) Enjoying the cold sunshine |
![](thumb_2017_01_025.jpg) The Wammy and Cross Heath |
![](thumb_2017_01_029.jpg) Walk to town |
![](thumb_2017_01_090t_Silverdale.jpg) Siverdale, Apedale and the Wammy January 2017 |
![](thumb_2017_01_091.jpg) The Greenway with Silverdale Church |
![](thumb_2017_01_093.jpg) On the Wammy |
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![](thumb_2017_02_150t_Reverse_Wammy.jpg) Garners, The Greeway, The Wammy, Apedale, Silverdale and the Greenway February 2017 |
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![](thumb_2017_02_153.jpg) Oatcakes at the Apedale Heritage Centre |
![](thumb_2017_02_155.jpg) Silverdale Church |
![](thumb_2017_02_157.jpg) The Greenway |
![](thumb_2017_02_163.jpg) The route |
![](thumb_2017_03_010t_Cannock_Chase.jpg) Cannock Chase March 2017 |
![](thumb_2017_03_013.jpg) On Abraham Way |
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![](thumb_2017_03_019.jpg) Avoiding the stepping stones |
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![](thumb_2017_03_114t_Macclesfield_Forest.jpg) Macclesfield Forest March 2017 |
![](thumb_2017_03_117.jpg) Tegg's Nose |
![](thumb_2017_03_119.jpg) The goal: Toot Hill |
![](thumb_2017_03_121.jpg) Tegg's Nose |
![](thumb_2017_03_123.jpg) On Toot Hill |
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![](thumb_2017_03_129.jpg) Shutlingsloe |
![](thumb_2017_03_131.jpg) Shining Tor |
![](thumb_2017_03_135.jpg) Ascent to Nessit Hill |
![](thumb_2017_03_137.jpg) Looking back at Toot Hill |
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![](thumb_2017_03_162t_Silverdale.jpg) The Wammy, Apedale and Silverdale, March 2017 |
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![](thumb_2017_03_169.jpg) The Greenway |
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![](thumb_2017_03_178t_Tissington_Trail.jpg) Tissington Trail March 2017 |
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![](thumb_2017_03_185.jpg) Violets |
![](thumb_2017_04_100t_Canal_Stoke_Longport.jpg) Canal Walk: Stoke Station to Longport |
![](thumb_2017_04_101.jpg) Trent & Mersey Canal, adjacent to the Ring Road |
![](thumb_2017_04_103.jpg) Reflections |
![](thumb_2017_04_105.jpg) Near the Etruria New Road |
![](thumb_2017_04_111.jpg) James Brindley, the Builder |
![](thumb_2017_04_117.jpg) Hartshill Church |
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![](thumb_2017_04_121.jpg) Etruria Basin |
![](thumb_2017_04_212t_Delamere_Forest.jpg) Delamere Forest with Nigel Bird April 2017 |
![](thumb_2017_04_213.jpg) On Pale Heights |
![](thumb_2017_04_219.jpg) The Mersey Estuary with Stanlow on the right |
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![](thumb_2017_04_227.jpg) with Nigel |
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![](thumb_2017_05_066t_Three_Shires_Head.jpg) Widboarclough to Three Shires Head May 2017 |
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![](thumb_2017_05_075.jpg) Up the Cumberland Brook |
![](thumb_2017_05_079.jpg) with Shutlingsloe behind us |
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![](thumb_2017_05_095.jpg) Over Wood Moss |
![](thumb_2017_05_097.jpg) Lunch at Three Shires Head |
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![](thumb_2017_05_109.jpg) The Roaches |
![](thumb_2017_05_115.jpg) Shutlingsloe ahead from Cutthorn Moss |
![](thumb_2017_05_121.jpg) Widboarclough Church |
![](thumb_2017_05_123.jpg) The old Post Office; formerly a mill |
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![](thumb_2017_06_560t_Apedale.jpg) Apedale June 2017 |
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![](thumb_2017_06_569.jpg) Lovely weather! |
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![](thumb_2017_06_730t_Hanley_Forest_Park.jpg) Hanley Forest Park June 2017 |
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![](thumb_2017_06_731.jpg) The Skateboard Park |
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![](thumb_2017_06_735.jpg) Climbing Rocks |
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![](thumb_2017_06_754t_Haughmond_Abbey.jpg) Haughmond Abbey June 2017 |
![](thumb_2017_06_755.jpg) The Abbot's Hall |
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![](thumb_2017_06_765.jpg) The Refectory |
![](thumb_2017_06_767.jpg) Walk up Haughmond Hill Shrewsbury |
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![](thumb_2017_06_769.jpg) Caer Caradoc |
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![](thumb_2017_06_781.jpg) Back to the Abbey |
![](thumb_2017_06_783.jpg) Rodney's Pillar |
![](thumb_2017_06_787.jpg) The Chapter House |
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![](thumb_2017_07_010t_Apedale.jpg) Apedale, July 2017 |
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![](thumb_2017_07_020t_Rushton.jpg) Rushton Spencer & Rudyard Lake July 2017 |
![](thumb_2017_07_023.jpg) A lovely day |
![](thumb_2017_07_025.jpg) The Lake from Cliffe Park |
![](thumb_2017_07_029.jpg) From the Dam |
![](thumb_2017_07_031.jpg) Too late to catch a train |
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![](thumb_2017_07_041.jpg) The walk back to Rushton Spencer |
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![](thumb_2017_07_046.jpg) An overestimate but far enough |
![](thumb_2017_07_268t_Shining_Tor.jpg) Shining Tor, July 2017 |
![](thumb_2017_07_269.jpg) Shining Tor |
![](thumb_2017_07_273.jpg) Chilly on the summit |
![](thumb_2017_07_323.jpg) The path to Cat's Tor |
![](thumb_2017_07_325.jpg) Shining Tor and Shutlingsloe |
![](thumb_2017_07_327.jpg) The Woodland Chapel |
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![](thumb_2017_07_341.jpg) On the trudge back up (the Zag) |
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![](thumb_2017_07_347.jpg) Shutlingsloe |
![](thumb_2017_07_349.jpg) Sutton Common Mast |
![](thumb_2017_07_353.jpg) Far enough! |
![](thumb_2017_08_016t_Westport_lake.jpg) Westport Lake to Golden Dale and back. August 2017 |
![](thumb_2017_08_017.jpg) Westport Lake |
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![](thumb_2017_08_023.jpg) Towards Harecastle |
![](thumb_2017_08_025.jpg) Harecastle Tunnel, with the boats waiting to go through |
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![](thumb_2017_08_035.jpg) Looking south from Harecastle |
![](thumb_2017_08_037.jpg) The Golden Flame iin Golden Dale Park |
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![](thumb_2017_08_043.jpg) showing the glass phials of messages |
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![](thumb_2017_08_160t_Silverdale%20&%20Keele.jpg) Silverdale, Keele and Home August 2017 |
![](thumb_2017_08_161.jpg) The start: home |
![](thumb_2017_08_163.jpg) Silverdale Church from the old railway walkway |
![](thumb_2017_08_165.jpg) Same, looking back |
![](thumb_2017_08_167.jpg) Above the Keele Bypass |
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![](thumb_2017_08_171.jpg) Keele Church from Quarry Bank |
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![](thumb_2017_08_175.jpg) New Building on the latest development area |
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![](thumb_2017_09_010t_Whitmore_Road.jpg) Whitmore Road, Lymes Lane, Keele Village, University & home September 2017 |
![](thumb_2017_09_015.jpg) The Motorway from the A53 |
![](thumb_2017_09_017.jpg) Lymes Lane |
![](thumb_2017_09_019.jpg) Keele Church |
![](thumb_2017_10_010t_Apedale.jpg) Apedale, one of several walks there in October & November 2017 |
![](thumb_2017_10_011.jpg) The wind turbines, powering the Energy Centre |
![](thumb_2017_10_014.jpg) Apedale walk |
![](thumb_2017_10_015.jpg) Walk aong the Lyme Valley Greenway from the Hospital |
![](thumb_2017_10_018t_Cannock%20Chase.jpg) Cannock Chase October 2017 |
![](thumb_2017_10_027.jpg) In the Sherbrook Valley |
![](thumb_2017_10_031.jpg) The stepping stones |
![](thumb_2017_10_033.jpg) Back along the ridge |
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![](thumb_2017_10_041.jpg) The glacial accidental |
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![](thumb_2017_10_055.jpg) The Trig. Point |
![](thumb_2017_10_056.jpg) Amanita Muscaria |
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![](thumb_2017_11_010t_Munich_Walks.jpg) Walks during the Munich Opera visit November 2017 |
![](thumb_2017_11_011.jpg) The Englischer Garten from Studentenstadt to the Chinesisches Turm |
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![](thumb_2017_11_015.jpg) Coffe in the cold by the lake |
![](thumb_2017_11_027.jpg) Walk in the grounds of Schloss Nymphenberg |
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![](thumb_2017_11_033.jpg) The Hauptschloss |
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![](thumb_2017_11_041.jpg) In the Viktuellien Markt |
![](thumb_2017_11_080t_Greenway_Silverdale.jpg) Walk to Keele via the Greenway and Silverdale November 2017 |
![](thumb_2017_11_081.jpg) Silverdale Church |
![](thumb_2017_11_083.jpg) The last train has long gone from Silverdale Railway Station |
![](thumb_2017_11_090t_Cannock_Chase.jpg) Cannock Chase November 2017 |
![](thumb_2017_11_091.jpg) The Sherbrook Valley on a fine cold windy morning |
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![](thumb_2017_11_094.jpg) The Stepping Stones |
![](thumb_2017_11_095.jpg) climbing back to the ridge |
![](thumb_2017_11_096.jpg) The Telecom Mast |
![](thumb_2017_11_097.jpg) The "Accidental"; Ger: Findling |
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![](thumb_2017_12_010t_Hospital.jpg) Walk home from a hospital appointment |
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![](thumb_2017_12_144t_Apedale.jpg) Apedale in the snow; end of the year |
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