Thursday walk 11 May 2023. Sheffield parks and woods

[David Pendlebury]

A walk through some of the parks and woodland of south Sheffield, passing Sheffield’s oldest standing building, seeing a herd of Fallow deer, walking through ancient woodland and with a good chance of seeing Sheffield’s most recent resident bird species.
Tea and cakes at the end of the walk. Please bring cake!!
Starting from our house, 89A Folds Lane, at 11am, a route of approximately 8 miles of easy, well-surfaced paths.
There should still be bluebells, wood anenomies and wild garlic in the woods and hopefully I can give some history on the way round.
David and Linda

[David Pendlebury]

Hope that you can make it on Thursday. Tea and cakes at our house afterwards. Please bring cake!
The bluebells were looking spectacular this morning.
The coffee stop will hopefully offer extensive views over the moors, while the planned lunch break over looks a meadow full of cowslips.
David and Linda

[David Pendlebury]

Meet report – a very wet start to the walk but undismayed we viewed the impressive remaining tower of Beauchief Abbey before moving on to Beauchief Hall and its herd of Fallow deer. The bluebells were excellent in the ancient woodland of Lady Spring Wood which was more than could be said for Moor View. Walking through Greenhill Park, we were beside the stream that marks the boundary between Sheffield and Derbyshire. It reminded us that our whole walk would have been in Derbyshire prior to the 1934 boundary changes. Lunch, and an end to the rain, was in Chantryland Meadow, Graves Park. The whole meadow was full of cowslips in this peaceful corner. Traversing Graves Park and crossing rhe A61 we finished the walk through Chancet Wood and Parkbank Wood, returning to the Abbey. The drifts of bluebells with the bright green beech leaves above them were particularly entrancing in Parkbank Wood. The walk finished with tea and a great variety of cakes.
Linda’s pic:

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