Bradford to the Millennium Dome at Greenwich ...the CHA way

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Bradford City Hall to Greenwich Dome

The Walks

The outline plan has now become a reality. The first ten Millennium Walks got us from Bradford's Centenary Square (where the Civic Team attended our departure) to the county of Leicestershire, east and just south of Loughborough.

Walks 1 - 3: from Bradford to The Peak District.
Woods, stone villages, views across Calderdale

1: Leaving Bradford Centenary Square to Mirfield
Saturday 9th January ... Map 104
Meet Centenary Square at 9.45 for 10.00 Civic Send off
Bernard Beanland & Rita Schofield

2: Calderdale to Kirklees Three Nuns to Shepley
Saturday 30th January ... Map 104/110
Sheila Hogg & Anne Hardy

3: Kirklees to the Peak District Shepley to Flouch
Saturday 13th February ... Map 110
Mike Smith

Walks 4-7: across the Peak District
Gritstone and Limestone; moors, woods, reservoirs.

4: Midhope Moors
Sunday 21st February ... Map 110
A: Flouch to Snake Inn: Steve Oake
B: Flouch to Hagg Farm: Patrick Swithinbank

5 & 6: Castleton Weekend
Friday 19th March ... Map 110/119
Hagg Farm to Wirksworth

7: Alport Height & Amber Valley
Wirksworth to Morley (just north east of Derby)
Sunday 11th April ... Map 119/128
A: Patrick Swithinbank B: Russell Wilkes

Walks 8 - 10: across Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire
and into Leicestershire
Between two cities, across two rivers and into gentler hills

8: Last of the Pennines Morley to Shardlow
Sunday 9th May ... Map 128/9
A: Alan Lindley B: Ray Wilkes
(Shardlow is where the Trent & Mersey Canal
joins the River Trent)

9: The Rivers Trent & Soar Shardlow to Wysall
(GR 605271, west of Long Eaton)
Sunday 13th June ... Map 129
A: Steve Oake B: Jackie Wilkes

10: Willow on the Wold & Old Dalby
Wysall to Gaddesby (GR 688132)
Sunday 4th July ... Map 129
A: Steve Oake B: Mike Smith

From July onwards, Millennium Walks 11-15 will take us south of Northampton, which we skirt, and almost to Milton Keynes, which we have heard will not confirm any prejudices you may have about that place. Thanks to Mike Smith we have obtained a set of leaflets on the Midshires Way. This has a footpath and a bridleway/cycle route option, so we shall be using the footpaths in this area. See the new syllabus for information on these and all our other walks.

Walks 11 - 15: from Leicestershire to Milton Keynes.
Midshires by name and location, marching on through the farm land of Middle England.

11: Eye Brook Gaddesby to Tugby
Sunday 25th July ... Maps 129 / 141
A: Alan Lindley
B: Roy Hudson

12: Into Northamptonshire Tugby to Braybook
Sunday 15th August ... Map 141
A: Patrick Swithenbank
B: Ray Wilkes

13: Quite near Althorpe ! Braybook to Pitsford
Sunday 5th Sept ... Maps 141 / 152
A: Alan Lindley
B: Jackie Wilkes

14: Into the Nene Valley Pitsford to Bugbrooke
Sunday 26th Sept ... Maps 152
A: Steve Oake
B: Mike Smith

15: Stoke Park Pavilions Bugbrooke to Yardley Gobion
Sunday 24th Oct ... Map 152
A: Steve Oake
B: Ray Wilkes

This will leave us seven or eight walks short of our destination, and we may need to do Millennium Walks 16-22 (or will it be 23) as weekends rather than day trips. We will see just how long a day trip to Milton Keynes takes before planning the next bits in detail. The first four of these will take us through the Woburn Abbey Estate onto chalk downs, and then we shall have three to four walks on the Lea Valley Way.

And then, some time during the second syllabus of 2000 AD, we shall arrive!

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