Sheffield Walking Group
Sheffield Walking Group
Walks Programme
COVID-19 and Guidance for walkers
Restarting Group Walks
We are delighted to be restarting our walks programme albeit with some restrictions still in place. Reducing Covid-19 risks for you, your fellow walkers and those they come in contact with is everyone’s responsibility. Here are some important points for everyone on walks:
- If you have Covid-19 symptoms you must NOT attend any group walk. This is crucial, even it means dropping off a few minutes before the start of the walk. Symptoms include a new, continuous cough, high temperature and/or loss or change of taste and smell
- You MUST book on a walk beforehand: You’ll be turned away if you haven’t. This is because we must still limit group sizes up to 30 people. (We will probably start with a smaller limit than 30 just to see how things go with managing a larger group).
- To Book: Using EventBrite ONLY via the link in the walk description. This allows us to manage participant numbers & reduces work for our walk leaders.
- Bookings Open: EventBrite states when the walk booking is open (around two days before the walk start).
- If showing SOLD OUT please check back in case places become available. If you are unable to attend you MUST cancel your booking via EventBrite straight away to give others a chance to book on in your place.
- Keep 2m from others: Please respect others by keeping a distance of 2m and standing back to give way.
- Avoid touching (if possible): Gates, stiles, path benches, etc
- Good hand hygiene: Please bring hand sanitiser or/and gloves to use when you do have to touch gates/stiles & keep in your pocket for easy access
- Do not share: food, water or any walking equipment.
- Please follow your walk leaders advice: They have a responsibility to ensure that walks are safe for everyone. They may even gently remind you about social distancing and good hygiene whilst on walks.
For more info please read the Ramblers' Quick Guide for Walkers and also their more general guidance.
We’ve done our best to ensure walks are safe as possible & the booking system fair for everyone. However, we can always improve things so please email the group to give us some feedback.
Above all, please enjoy getting back walking with some of your SWG friends.
SWG Committee
Booking your place
If you would like to join this walk, please book a place via the link in the walk description.
Tickets will be made available generally 2 days prior to the walk (check EventBrite). If you are unable to attend, please cancel your booking straight away so that someone else can take your place.
Please do not turn up for a walk without booking, as we will have to turn you away.
Key
dog-friendly 
challenge 
kiddy-friendly 
fast-paced 
linear walk
Changes to the printed programme are shown in red.
13mi/21km,
Penistone-langsett reservoir circular
Start: Open in map app SE251033, Lairds Way, Penistone
Transport: Meet at 10:30 at the walk start. Starting from Penistone train station at 10.30 (Recommended 0935 train from Sheffield)
Walk Leader: Ruth B (07834703462) – don't call during office hours
Backmarker: Volunteer on day
Taking in part of the Pennine way, touching the edge of the magnificently bleak Thurlston Moor, around the south side of Langsett reservoir and back up to Penistone in time for the 1543 train home (or 1643 if walkers take a more leisurely pace). Moderate walk, proper shoes required, return trainfare approx £6. Meet the walk leader at the start of the walk.
Walk leader - Ruth B
Places - 10
COVID-19
Due to COVID-19, we all need to take extra steps to stay safe. Please follow all safety advice given by the walk leader, including the latest guidelines on physical distancing. For more information about COVID-19 and Ramblers group walks, please see our guidance for walkers on the coronavirus pages of the Ramblers website.
Booking your place:
If you would like to join this walk, please book a place here.
Please sign up by Friday at 18:00.
If you are unable to attend, please cancel your booking so that someone else can take your place.
Please do not turn up for a walk without booking, as we will have to turn you away.
Booking on walks is ONLY by EventBrite - do not try to book on directly with the walk leader
12mi/19km,
Rivelin and Loxley Valleys
Start: Open in map app SK327895, Loxley New Road, Malin Bridge
Transport: Meet at 10:00 at the walk start.
Walk Leader: Nigel L (0777 934 2861)
Backmarker: Volunteer on day
What better way to entice you on this walk than a promise of an Our Cow Molly ice-cream en-route. Although there’ll be a queue your pain will soon be forgotten as the luxuriant but delicately flavoured dairy delight envelopes those taste buds.
As for the walk, it heads westward with some sweeping views overlooking the largely tree topped Rivelin Valley taking in soft forest paths of Wyming Brook till we hot Rivelin Dams. Rising out of Rivelin Valley takes us into more open hill farmed livestock land walking along dry stone walled paths to our ice-cream stop. The return route drops down to the Loxley River following its gentle flow.
leader: Nigel
Spaces: 10
COVID-19
Due to COVID-19, we all need to take extra steps to stay safe. Please follow all safety advice given by the walk leader, including the latest guidelines on physical distancing. For more information about COVID-19 and Ramblers group walks, please see our guidance for walkers on the coronavirus pages of the Ramblers website.
Booking your place:
If you would like to join this walk, please book a place here.
Please sign up by Saturday at 18:00.
If you are unable to attend, please cancel your booking so that someone else can take your place.
Please do not turn up for a walk without booking, as we will have to turn you away.
Remember to bring your PPE and/or alcohol hand gel, keep your distance and follow walk leader's advice
Och Aye to Scotland We Go
More info: Here
Places: 26 at £60 (three nights) (remember the booking and refunds policy)
Contact: Nigel L
NOTHING TO DO WITH LOCKDOWN. OUR CHOSEN HOSTEL HAS HAD A WATER LEAK WHICH HAS DAMAGED THE ACCOMMODATION. SADLY IT WON'T BE AVAILABLE TILL 2022 (not next but the year after...)
There's a moose loose aboot this bunkhoose! Well there will be some SWGers at least! This August Bank Holiday we are heading north of the border to South West Scotland. We will be staying at Newton Stewart Youth Hostel close to the Galloway Forest Park and within easy reach of the Southern Uplands. We have sole use of the Hostel for 3 nights, so there will be plenty of time to explore the area, socialise and relax. More details to follow.
Spaces are very limited - let us know straight away if you cancel
10mi/16km,
Brockholes- Holmfirth circular
Start: Open in map app SE153112, Ridings Fields, Holme Valley
Transport: Meet at 10:45 at the walk start. Meet at Brockholes station (recommended 0935 train from Sheffield; bus options available)
Walk Leader: Ruth B (07834703462) – don't call during office hours
Backmarker: Volunteer on day
The walk takes in the splendours of West Yorkshire and the northern parts of the Peak District, and if you are inclined a view of Last of the Summer Wine country.
Aiming to finish for 1624 (super fit option) or 1728 (likely option) train back to Sheffield.
A strenuous 10 miles with 2172ft of ascent
Booking on walks is ONLY by EventBrite - do not try to book on directly with the walk leader
Autumn in the Lakes
We are returning to the Bury Jubilee Hostel at the base of Helvellyn for our October weekend away, with great opportunity to bag this great mountain. There is plenty of other fantastic walking to be done in the area. Although the hostel is relatively basic, it is in a fantastic location and very reasonably priced. This is always a popular weekend.
Remember to bring your PPE and/or alcohol hand gel, keep your distance and follow walk leader's advice
Splendid Seahouses
*** CANCELLED because the Bunkhouse is no longer a bunkhouse, sorry :-( ****
** This weekend away has been rescheduled from May 2020 due to Covid-19 **
(May 2020 itself was a rescheduling from May 2019 because the bunkhouse had double booked us - but this weekend away will happen one day, for sure!)
To wave goodbye to spring and say hello to summer we are visiting the stunning Northumberland Coast. We will be staying in the Lookout at Springhill Farm by Seahouses for three nights of the Bank Holiday weekend. For more information see https://www.springhill-farm.co.uk/the-lookout.
There will be sand (guaranteed), castles (guaranteed), sand-castles (if you make them - bring your bucket and spade), kippers (optional), a beach barbeque (weather permitting) and sunshine (with hopefully a clouds in between for us pasty folk who burn easily).
Spaces are very limited - let us know straight away if you cancel
