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2022.10.26 – Start in Coal Aston at Bus Stop on Eckington Rd (B6056) near Methodist Church SK.363:795, ~E on road for 150m, turn N down Birches Lane passing Village Hall and free Parking behind it and continue to Allotments & follow Sheffield Country Walk (SCW) ~NE, then leaving SCW into Cook Spring Wood & ~E just past it to SK.377:805, ~SSE to Owler Car Lane and follow upward E / ENE / N thru Povey Farm, ~E along top edge of Ryalls Wood continuing to Dowland Farm, SSE down minor road and skew cross Main Rd (above Oak Ho) then ~E on BW to a junction of paths at SK.406:808, ~SE touching South end of Bushes Wood, then S / SSE down to SCW & ~E thru Twelve Acre Wood leaving it and continuing a short distance ~E to The (Eckington) Seldom Seen Engine / Pumping House at SK.421:800. Lunch Break

Return W for ~150m and take ‘track’ thru High Bramley Wood SW / S/ W / NW then WSW / W to Bramley, ~N on Ford Lane for 100m, turn off SSW then S to SK.404:793, ~W on FP to road & NNW up road but turn W thru Greenside then turn ~NW up to road  ~WNW passing Trowayhall Farm & Gate Inn PH, continue ~W thru woods on SCW, cross FB and turn ~N past Sicklebrook Farm up to Owler Car Lane at SK.379:801, follow O C Lane  ~W / WSW / S down to Woodcock Farm / Eckington Rd at SK.372:796, follow Eckington Road ~W for less than a km back to start.

Leader Pauline Heather, 16 on walk, ~ 10miles long, took just under 6 hours

3 Bus stop on Eckington Road, Coal Aston, at Primitive Methodist church built 1866
2 The Royal Oak near Birches Lane
9 - 15 of group plus photographer - 16 in party
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20 fungi
22 Cook Spring Wood
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32 a fair number of footbridges on walk
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39 Povey Farm across the valley high up
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45 closer in to Povey Farm
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47 tea break
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61 Avenue towards Povey Farm
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71 zoomed into Povey Farm
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75 up towards Povey Farm
79 have now passed Povey Farm
94 house on Sloadlane
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98 footbridge and ford for vehicles and animals near Dowland Farm
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128 a pond in The Moss in Twelve Acre Wood
137 to taste -  perchance to shred ones mortal coil?
143 The (Eckington) Seldom Seen Engine / Pumping House
146 lunch break
147 High Bramley Wood
154 Farm at Bramley
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166 Score House
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185 Trowayhall Farm
186 Gate Inn
188 looking now from above across valley at Povet Farm
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