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) onto Rackford Road then climb over a stile and cross farmland (listening to the birds calling), via Dewidale Woods (another ancient woodland) to Woodsetts village. We walk over Socheage Hill to Lindrick Golf Course on the edge of which we will have coffee and biscuits then walk back through the Anston Stones Woods 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 walk will involve a walk round Anston village and then a drive to the Vintage Tea Shop in Todwick village before moving on to The Red Lion for lunch.
Would appreciate it if those intending to walk next Friday and to stay for lunch in The Red Lion would look at their menu by ‘searching’ ’www.chefandbrewer.com/pubs/south-yorkshire/red-lion’, then hit menu, and let us know your choices by Wednesday lunch-time (2pm), 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 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. (In comparison, our travel time for most HITW walks is at least 50mins to 1 hour!)
Reminder 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.
PS. Will probably do a similar walk on 19th June when hopefully the wild orchids will be in flower on the Anston Parish Council set aside grounds (Chris, please make a note in your diary if you would please as we will need your help in species identification)