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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.

Wednesday, 8 March 2023

Wepre Park, Ewloe Castle Aston Hill, Ewloe Green and Northop Hall 8th Mach 2023

The new "waterfall / hydroelectric system" on Wepre Brook in Wepre Park.
A Little egret on Wepre Brook in Wepre Park.
Wepre Brook on the way to Ewloe Castle in Wpre Park.
Ewloe Castle head.
Guess who thinks he is the king of Ewloe Castle,
A distant view of a Common kestrel, seen from Magazine Lane.
Ed's view from his lunch spot at Northop Hall War Memorial.
The path along he dismantled railway track through Coed Pentre Moch.
Is Mike in the picture?
Snowdrops, but not the most common varety.
The memorial island in the middle of The Rosie - a fishing lake in Wepre Park.
Walk stats: 
Distance: 8.1 miles. Climb: 725'.
Time: 3 hours 45 minutes. On the move walking average: 2.5 m.p.h. (although one GPS gave 2.7 m.p.h.) Overall walk average: 2.2 m.p.h.
Temperature: 3.2 Celsius  (near Aston Hill). 6.6 Celsius (at lunch), 4.4 Celsius after lunch until we arrived back a the cars.
Baufort Wind Force. Max 3 a Gentle Breeze, making it feel quite cool and requiring us to wear gloves/mits for most of the walk!
Group: Martyn, Mike, Ed.
This was a walk chosen at the last minute to avoid any threat of walking in temperatures feeling as low as - 6 Celsius , and prosects of it being icy underfoot.
Thankfully that objective was achieved.
It was good to see a smally nursery group of children having an outdoor activity session in the park, and a whole class of children enjoying a session in the childrens' swing/slide/ activity area in Wepre Park before heading back to school, just as a flurry of snow started.
Birds seen or heard today included: European robin, Common blackbird, Winter wren, Wood nuthatch, Great tit, Common kestel, Mallard, Moorhen, Little egret, Common buzzard, Rook, Great tit, Herring gull, Black headed gull and Oystercatcher.
Overall an enjoyable walk, less muddy than expected (but boots still needing to be cleaned!), and worthy of a refrshing pint of Purple Moose's Snowdonia Ale and  Dark Side of the Moose at the Central Hotel in Shotton ( another Wethersponns hostelry of course!).














 

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