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When? Started: 1993 Who? Started with staff and friends from U H S, Chester. Organiser: Martyn Harris We walk every Wednesday and Saturdays, New Years day and May Day. How many walk? Walks take place as long as there are at least 2 wanting to walk on that day. More walk on a Wednesday than on a Saturday. Most ever: 29. Current group size walking: 2-7 in mid-week and 2-4 on Saturday. Where do we walk? Saturday: Anywhere in North and Mid-Wales, Peak District, Shropshire and the Long Mynd and as far North as the Trough of Bowland. Thursday: Anywhere within about 40 miles of Chester. Type of walk: Distance: 6 – 14 miles (but usually under 10 miles). Climb: up to 4000’ (but usually very much less!). People involved on walks in 2024:- Martyn Harris, Fran Murphy, Sue and Michel Pelissier, Mike Dodd, David Savage,, Ed Meads, Nigel and Elaine Taylor, Winston Feather.

Saturday, 5 March 2022

Denbigh, the Ystrad Valley and More 5th March 2022

 

Denbigh Casle from the start of the walk.
On the way to the Gwaynynog estate - inspiration for Beaatrice Potter's Peter Rabbit.
Gwaynynog through the trees.
The memorial to Dr Samuel Johnson next to mthe Afon Ystrad,
The site of Dr Samuel Johnson's cottage in the Ystrad Valley.
A fantastic show of  Crocus in the grounds of a house next the the Afon Ystrad.
The Clwydian hills from the path east of Segrwyd,
Checking on the latest set of lambs - the first tha we have seen this year.
Denbigh Castle from our lunch spot.
Stanley's statue in the centre of Denbigh.
The Clwydians above Denbigh rom Denbigh Quarry.
Distance: 7.5 mils. Climb: 950'.
Time: 4 hours 26 minutes. On the move walking average: 2.2 m.p.h. Overallwalk average: 1.7 m.p.h.
Beaufort Wind Force: 0 - 2. calm, light air and occasionly a light breeze.
Temperature: 9.2 Celsius at lunch, feeling cooler at the start and warmer when shelterted and in the Sun.
This was a glorious day for walking, a compensation for the many muddy paths encountered on route. Thankfully some of us arrived at home in time to clean our boots still in the warm sunshine. 
This was the first time that I had done this walk in an anticlockwise direct, so it gave me different views  to enjoy and with trees devoid of foliage we could even see the former Denbigh Hospital to the niorth of our path.
The surprise of the day was a fantastic display of Crocus next to the Afon Ystrad in the grounds odf a house that we went through.
Lunch was taken just outside the entrance of Denbigh Castle, but the ony available seat was in the shade, so we took advantage of remains of a stone wall nearby.
After lunch Ed took us on a tour of Denbigh, a little contrived with some interesting historicalbits and one goofd viewpoint over bthetown towards the Clwydian Hills, but an extension that has a good chance of not being srepeated!
 Birds see or heard today incuded: Grweat tit, Blue tit, Wood nuthatch, Common buzzard, Common pheasant, Comon blackbird House sparrow, Rook, Carrion crow and Jackdaw, 
Overall a good and enjoyable walk, only marred by the lack of a suitable hostelry to visit in Denbigh!

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