15th - 30th September 2018 ryone Eve For ks Wal Amber Valley & Erewash Walking Festival www.autumnfootprints.co.uk What you need to know Walks grading Amber Valley • Please wear suitable footwear and clothing and How easy is this walk? & Erewash have a waterproof, as the weather is often Walks in this Programme are graded for unpredictable. Unfortunately, an inadequately difficulty as follows: equipped person could affect the safety and Walking enjoyment of the whole group, so we reserve the • Easy Access: Walks for everyone, including people Festival right not to take a person who is not properly with conventional wheelchairs and pushchairs, using equipped. easy access paths. Comfortable shoes or trainers can be worn. Assistance may be needed to push The Autumn Footprints • Dogs are allowed on some of the walks. To avoid wheelchairs on some sections: please enquire. inconvenience to other walkers or disturbance to Festival offers a great • Easy: Walks for anyone who does not have a choice of 42 free guided farm animals or wildlife, please keep your dog on All walks are FREE OF CHARGE. a lead and under control throughout the walk. mobility difficulty or a specific health problem or is walks from 15th – 30th There are some walks on which dogs are not seriously unfit. Comfortable shoes or trainers can be September 2018. Sixteen However there may be a parking permitted due to travelling through fields of cattle worn. (see symbols on individual walks). - see symbols against each walk. days of enjoyable walks charge • Moderate: Walks for people with country walking and informative talks Booking is recommended for all the walks and essential • Most walk leaders are volunteers. experience and a good level of fitness. May include for some. We cannot guarantee being able to take you some steep paths and open country, and may be at with something for if you do not book in advance. Please contact: • Remember to bring along any medication you may need during the walk. a brisk pace. Walking boots and warm, waterproof everyone of all abilities. Shipley Country Park on 01629 533991 for bookings clothing are essential. and further information unless stated otherwise. • Booking is recommended for all the walks and Set in picturesque Derbyshire, The essential for some. We cannot guarantee being • Strenuous: Walks for experienced country walkers Autumn Footprints Walking Festival Visit our website www.autumnfootprints.co.uk for with an above average fitness level. May include hills more details. able to take you if you do not book in advance. takes place in an area known for its Tel: 01629 533991 unless stated otherwise. and rough country, and may be at a brisk pace. natural beauty and superb scenery. Walking boots and warm, waterproof clothing are We would love to hear your thoughts about • All walks are circular unless stated otherwise. essential. People in doubt about their fitness are Popular with both novice and experienced walkers wanting to enjoy the walking festival. Please go to our website • In poor weather the walk may be modified by the advised to contact the organiser or leader in advance. the beautiful colours of autumn and and enter your feedback on the form on the leader, or in extreme conditions it may be cancelled. the area’s fabulous views, undulating homepage. • On some walks a packed lunch is required, look for countryside, industrial heritage and the symbol on each walk detail. It is always advisable Come to the Peak District to carry a drink. There may be a stop for lunch. attractive towns and villages. & Derbyshire and enjoy • Young walkers 16 and below must be the great outdoors at one Led by knowledgeable local of the four superb annual Why not take a break accompanied by an adult. volunteers and staff keen to show walking festivals. With off their patch, you will discover during the Walking Festival? • All those taking part do so at their own risk. hundreds of walks offering a wide variety of walks to explore • Cars should be parked sensibly and locked with a wide variety of themes, local heritage, natural history and There are lots of comfortable places to stay from friendly pubs no valuables on show. you will be spoilt for choice. and B & B’s to campsites. Why not make a short break of your wildlife. The routes take in walks • Look for the pushchair or wheelchair symbols at the Take a look at alongside rivers and canals, as well visit and attend more than one walk. Derbyshire offers a wide base of the walk details. Whilst many walks are not Matlock www.visitpeakdistrict.com as through open countryside, range of Quality Assured accommodation – look for the Walkers suitable for wheelchair or pushchair users, there are for the October walks, towns and villages. Welcome sign for special facilities. www.visitambervalley.co.uk a number of suitable walks. Alfreton Discovery Days • Walks will start promptly. Crich Ironville and next year’s Please be advised walkers may be taking Whatstandwell programme. • Times for the duration of the walk are an estimate Ambergate Ripley photographs on any of the festival walks. and can vary according to conditions, interest Codnor They may be used for future publicity. shown and the numbers of walkers on the day. AMBER VALLEY DerwentWISE is about inspiring and enabling people to care for Idridgehay Belper Heanor the Lower Derwent Valley. For the last five years they have been Langley Mill Duffield Horsley planting meadows, enhancing ancient woodland, surveying Important. Grades are provided as a general guide only: Mapperley heritage features and learning about the landscape. This has all Morley Ilkeston if you have any doubt about your fitness for a particular Little Eaton West Hallam been made possible by the local organisations, community Hallam Fields groups, schools and volunteers that have been involved in the walk please contact the organiser or leader in advance. You should also bear in mind the distance of the walk, regional EREWASH Kirk Hallam project. Now in its final year, DerwentWISE will be having three Kirk Langley Stanley spectacular events to showcase the work that’s been done and differences in terrain and the possibility of bad weather, Dale Abbey Sandiacre place the people who have made it happen at the heart of each Locko Park which can make a walk more difficult than planned. If Risley festivity. If you’d like to join in the celebrations then come to Ockbrook you’re unsure of your fitness level, try a short and easy walk Derby Darley Park for a family fun day on 2nd August 2018, Derby Spondon Theatre for a musical composition inspired by the landscape on first: it’s much better to find a walk a little too slow and easy Draycott Borrowash 19th January 2019 and Cromford Mills on 23rd March 2019. than to make yourself miserable and exhausted. Leaders Breaston Long Eaton DerwentWISE is the Lower Derwent Valley Landscape may refuse to accept participants who in their opinion are Partnership, hosted by Derbyshire Wildlife Trust and supported by Sawley Heritage Lottery Funds. For more information contact inadequately equipped or unfit. Nottingham [email protected] What you need to know Walks grading • Please wear suitable footwear and clothing and How easy is this walk? have a waterproof, as the weather is often Walks in this Programme are graded for unpredictable. Unfortunately, an inadequately difficulty as follows: equipped person could affect the safety and enjoyment of the whole group, so we reserve the • Easy Access: Walks for everyone, including people right not to take a person who is not properly with conventional wheelchairs and pushchairs, using equipped. easy access paths. Comfortable shoes or trainers can be worn. Assistance may be needed to push • Dogs are allowed on some of the walks. To avoid wheelchairs on some sections: please enquire. inconvenience to other walkers or disturbance to farm animals or wildlife, please keep your dog on • Easy: Walks for anyone who does not have a a lead and under control throughout the walk. mobility difficulty or a specific health problem or is There are some walks on which dogs are not seriously unfit. Comfortable shoes or trainers can be permitted due to travelling through fields of cattle worn. - see symbols against each walk. • Moderate: Walks for people with country walking • Most walk leaders are volunteers. experience and a good level of fitness. May include • Remember to bring along any medication you some steep paths and open country, and may be at may need during the walk. a brisk pace. Walking boots and warm, waterproof clothing are essential. • Booking is recommended for all the walks and essential for some. We cannot guarantee being • Strenuous: Walks for experienced country walkers able to take you if you do not book in advance. with an above average fitness level. May include hills Tel: 01629 533991 unless stated otherwise. and rough country, and may be at a brisk pace. Walking boots and warm, waterproof clothing are • All walks are circular unless stated otherwise. essential. People in doubt about their fitness are • In poor weather the walk may be modified by the advised to contact the organiser or leader in advance. leader, or in extreme conditions it may be cancelled. • On some walks a packed lunch is required, look for the symbol on each walk detail. It is always advisable Come to the Peak District to carry a drink. There may be a stop for lunch. & Derbyshire and enjoy • Young walkers 16 and below must be the great outdoors at one accompanied by an adult. of the four superb annual walking festivals. With • All those taking part do so at their own risk.