Sheffield Walking Group
Sheffield Walking Group
Walks Programme
COVID-19 and Guidance for Walkers
Restarting group walks
We are delighted to have restarted our walks programme, albeit with some restrictions in place. Reducing the risks of Covid-19 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 if it means cancelling shortly before the walk starts. 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 the maximum legal group size is currently 30 (or less at the walk leader's discretion).
- Book using EventBrite via the link in the walk description. This allows us to manage numbers and reduces work for our walk leaders.
- 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 immediately to give others a chance to book on in your place.
- Please respect others by keeping a distance of 2 metres and standing back to give way.
- Good hand hygiene: avoid touching gates, stiles, path benches, etc. and bring hand sanitiser for when this is unavoidable. Do not share food, water or walking equipment.
- Please follow your walk leader's 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.
For more info please read the Ramblers' Quick Guide for Walkers and also their more general guidance.
We’ve done our best to ensure that walks are as safe as possible and the booking system is fair for everyone. However, we can always improve things, so please do email us some feedback.
Above all, please enjoy getting back walking with your SWG friends!
SWG Committee
Places available on walks
Key
dog-friendly 
challenge 
child-friendly 
fast-paced 
linear walk
Changes to the printed programme are shown in red.
6.5mi/10km,
Dusky Halloween hike in Limb Valley
Start: Open in map app SK333829, River Sheaf Walk, Millhouses
Transport: Meet at 15:30 at the walk start. Meet at 15:30 outside Millhouses Park Cafe
Walk Leader: Natalie T (07890531598)
Backmarker: Volunteer on day
Do your best Halloween fancy dress, bring your head torch and wrap up warm for this early evening walk from Millhouses park.
We walk through the lofty trees of Eccelsall woods as dusk approaches. Once out of the woods, we head to spooky Limb Valley up towards Ringinglow. Back we come on a similar route avoiding the ghouls and through the darkened woods, we return to the start.
Natalie will arrive at the park to meet at 3.30pm. The cafe closes at 4pm, so there will be a bit of time to grab a takeaway cuppa and a cake if you like before we head off around 3.45pm.
Social distancing and a head torch is a must for this walk!!!
Walk leader - Natalie T
Places - 11
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.
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
13mi/21km,
Circular Walk: A journey through loxley river and the reservoirs
Start: Open in map app SK327895, Malin Bridge Tram stop
Transport: Meet at 10:30 at the walk start.
Walk Leader: Isabel G (07874 671582) – don't call during office hours
Backmarker: Volunteer on day
A 13 miles mostly flat land walk. It starts at Malin bridge tram stop, walking up the river loxley to damflask reservoir, then walking round damflask and agden reservoirs the back to Hillsborough via the river loxley.
Walk leader - Isabel G
Places - 9
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.
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
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
