A healthy morning walk!
Six or seven years ago, Stone Town Council published three leaflets detailing Doorstep Walks. Devised and prepared by Stone Ramblers, each leaflet contains details of a short medium and long walk in and around the town. We’ve suspected for a while that the passage of time may have rendered some of the walk descriptions inaccurate - so yesterday morning councillors and ramblers donned their boots and went off to check the leaflets.
Janet and I joined the group checking the Pirehill walk - a five mile route across Crown Meadow, along Stafford Road, over the A34 footbridge through the estate to the very top of Pirehill Lane and then over the fields at the back of the Fire Service headquarters, back over the A34 to Aston and back to town along the canal towpath. And how quickly things change. A hedge has been removed, a stile is missing, a double fence has been reduced to single and a gate is now a stile. These major changes and a few other minor ones will be incorporated into the next edition of the leaflets. So we all had a very pleasant walk whilst performing a very useful task!
The Doorstep Walk leaflets are available free of charge from the Council offices in Station Road and from the Library in Market Square.
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