New Members’ Social Evening on Thursday 14th April

We will be holding a new members' social evening on Thursday 14^th April starting 7.30pm at Hashomer House, 37a Broadhurst Gardens (just around the corner from Finchley Road station on the Jubilee and Metropolitan lines).  

Come to find out more about CLOG's active programme including day walks, weekends away, social events, other activities and longer trips both in the UK and overseas. If you love the countryside as much as we do, why not come and join us? Visitors, prospective members and existing members and friends very welcome!

To reach Hashomer House turn right out of Finchley Road tube station and immediately right into Canfield Gardens, and right again into Broadhurst Gardens – Hashomer House is three minutes' walk further on the left hand side, accessed through a gate and passage.  

Go with the Flow - Evening Walks for 2016

You can lead a horse to water.....or maybe to Sadler’s Wells. So to follow last summer’s horse-drawn London walks, there will be a series of evening walks on the theme of water in London: water for life and water for pleasure. Geology, engineering and entertainment as we take in the remains and sites of London’s watery history, and the more decorative water features of today. Expect to hear about and see most of aqueducts, reservoirs, springs, wells, spas, public baths, water towers, fountains, watergates, pumps and pumping stations, lost and new rivers. Learn about cholera and epidemiology – presume the first time that word has made it into a Clog email. Discover where free water was dispensed outside Tesco’s. Enjoy the lavish Victorian architecture of the water industry. Learn about the protectionist behaviour of the Honourable Company of Water Tankard Bearers. See the Devil’s Conduit. A word to manage expectations. Apart from the New River, most of these walks won’t follow riversides. Much of London’s water history has been buried or replaced as water supply has become safer over the years. So sometimes there’s not much to see but the stories are worth hearing. The leader will bring along some old pictures and maps of how things were. But he will also try to include other London ephemera on some of the routes – Charlie Chaplin’s garden, a former Catholic friary, the Cinema Museum in a workhouse...... The detailed programme is still to be finalised but will include: Tuesday 26 April - Water in the City: London’s first lost river Thursday 21 April - Chelsea Waterworks – from reservoir to source Wednesday 4 May - Streatham Wells and around The 17th century New River Backwaters of Lambeth Wells, Spas and Reservoirs of Hampstead All dates are provisional at this stage; dates for the others will follow later. The leader will send out more details of the first walk before Easter. A few other possibilities are being researched and he will schedule these later in the summer. Woodberry Wetlands is scheduled to open in the spring; if it’s open in the evening we will try to visit. Currently there are no plans for water polo, tap dancing or similar events but the year is yet young....

Getting away walking at Easter

Not long to Easter now and many of us will be heading out of London on one of our two Easter trips: 

Cornwall Coast

There’s a certain magic about Devon and Cornwall at this time of year. Whether on the coast, in the estuaries or the deeply incised river valleys, this is a special place, hillier than further east, a contorted landscape designed for travel by boat or on foot. There is a rich history of occupation, from iron age forts, to picturesque fishing villages, to huge naval facilities, to today’s tourist business.

Water is everywhere. Walk on water at a tidal crossing; listen to a geyser that spouts every 15 minutes, flag down a train at GWR’s St Keyne Wishing Well Halt. Around Plymouth the landscape is of rias, flooded valleys which extend in many directions from the harbour. We will cross the Tamar by road, and by Brunel’s bridge. We spend time in Looe where two rivers meet the coast. All being well with tide and time, we intend to do a boat trip to a small nature reserve island on our last day.

Kirby Stephen

Kirkby Stephen is in the historic county of Westmorland, quite near the historic capital of Appleby. There are beautiful walks on the Cumbrian moors, the Eden valley, the nearby Howgill Fells, with the Pennines about five miles away.  It is located between the North Pennines AONB (Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty), the Yorkshire Dales National Park, and the Lake District National Park.

The hostel is in the town, near pubs and shops and 1.5 miles walk from the Kirkby Stephen railway station on the scenic Settle to Carlisle line. The local walks include part of Wainwright's coast to coast route.  With a car, it is possible to drive to the Eastern Lakes District, which is relatively unexplored. Cross Fell at 2,930 feet (893 m) is accessible by a short car journey and is the highest English peak outside the Lake District. In fact, it is higher than many of the peaks in the Lake District, and will be a considerable effort to ascend, should you choose to climb it. It often has snow in March

Trips away planned so far in 2016

Volcano Island trip January 2016

Cabo de Gata walking and mountain biking, February 2016

Cornwall Coast Easter trip, March 2016

Howgill Fells, Easter trip, March 2016

Narrowboating, Peak District, April 2016

Forest of Dean and Wye valley, May 2016

Lake District June 2016

Cycling round Lake Constance June 2016

Sea kayaking, cycling and walking weekend, Chichester, July 2016

Dorset Coast July 2016

Champing weekend, Surrey, August 2016

Trips away planned so far in 2016

Volcano Island trip January 2016

Cabo de Gata walking and mountain biking, February 2016

Cornwall Coast Easter trip, March 2016

Howgill Fells, Easter trip, March 2016

Narrowboating, Peak District, April 2016

Forest of Dean and Wye valley, May 2016

Lake District June 2016

Cycling round Lake Constance June 2016

Sea kayaking, cycling and walking weekend, Chichester, July 2016

Dorset Coast July 2016

Champing weekend, Surrey, August 2016

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