Meet in the Anston Parish Hall Car Park, Ryton Road, North Anston S25 4DL. 10am
Walk through Anston Stones Wood (a SSSI and ancient woodland) where hopefully we’ll see wild orchids (Bee, Common Spotted and Southern Marsh? It would help if Chris and/or Shelagh could join us on the walk to identify these and other species ). We walk down to Anston Brook and walk by the side of the A57 before early coffee looking over Lindrick Golf Course. We then walk over Socheage Hill into Woodsetts village before crossing farmland and passing through Dewidale Woods (another ancient woodland). We cross more fields and then climb over a stile onto Rackford Road then through the top of the Woods back to the APH CP, approx distance 5 miles.
We then drive on the A57 for 2 miles back towards the M1 to The Red Lion, Todwick S26 1DJ (1st exit at the 1st roundabout) for lunch. Please ensure you enter your car registration on the screen inside the pub .
The short flat walk through the village will be followed by coffee/tea in The Red Lion.
Would appreciate it if those intending to walk next Friday and to stay for lunch would look at the menu by ‘searching’ ’ www.chefandbrewer.com/pubs/south-yorkshire/red-lion’, then hit menu, and let us know your choices by Wednesday lunch-time please, thank you.
Travel Directions:- once you reach the roundabout over the M1 Jct 31 take the A57 towards Worksop (passing the Red Lion at Todwick on the way) and after 3 miles turn left at the traffic lights in South Anston village onto Ryton Road, drive under the railway bridge (mind the pot hole patches and sinking road surface) and turn right after about 100 yards just before the zebra crossing into Anston Parish Hall grounds and follow the road round to the left to the car park.
Distances/driving time:- Chesterfield 20 miles/30 mins, Dronfield 18 miles/33 mins, Mansfield 22 miles/35 mins, Norton Roundabout Sheffield 13 miles/25 mins.
Footnote:- Anston Stone, used to rebuild the Palace of Westminster after the fire in the mid C19th, is Magnesian Limestone, a suite of carbonate rocks in north-east England dating from the Permian period. The outcrop stretches from Nottingham (Cresswell Crags) northwards through Yorkshire (Anston Stones Wood, a SSSI, and Roche Abbey both in South Yorkshire) and into County Durham where it is exposed along the coast between Hartlepool and South Shields.