Our meeting point for the July walk was the parking lay-by near Greasley Church.
It was a warm, sunny day and a busy lay-by as Gedling Ramblers were also assembling to start their walk from there at 10am.
Our walk took us across the field footpath from the church towards Moorgreen, skirting Colliers Wood before taking the footpath through the Industrial Estate.
This is on the site that was once Moorgreen Colliery and Mining Training Centre.
The photograph shows the centre in the 1970s.
The walk continued to Lower Beauvale followed by a steep ascent to Beauvale passing both the Greasley Beauvale Primary School (where DH Lawrence was a pupil) and then the new 2011 school before reaching Newthorpe and finally back to Greasley. The original school site became a Listed Building in 2008.
The group posing underneath a mural on the industrial estate
Our next walk is on Thursday August 15th starting from Farnsfield.