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Welcome to the online edition of Signpost. This is an alternative to the print edition.
Walking around the Peak District and ambling around my patch as a Footpath Inspector, I never thought that one day I would become Chairman of Peak & Northern Footpaths Society, but that has now happened ...
The meeting started with the official AGM business. Following this, a discussion on common footpath problems and a talk by our guest speaker, Roly Smith, gave much food for thought. ...
The Society currently has 95 footpath ‘inspectors’ - volunteers who check Rights of Way (RoW) in a parish, or in several parishes, which they have agreed to ‘inspect’. ...
Local land charges registers are kept by district, borough and unitary councils; in them are recorded all local restrictions or charges affecting individual properties. ...
It is with sadness that we report the sudden death of Rosemary Fox in July 2015. Rosemary was a long-time member of PNFS and was a ...
Many organisations have chosen to be affiliated to PNFS. At the current moment, we have 84 affiliates, with organisations covering a diverse range of areas including footpath societies, local councils, mountaineering clubs, conservation societies and a retired teachers’ association. ...
In Signpost 50 (Jan 2016) Rhoda Barnett highlighted the challenge to find ‘Lost Ways’ before it is too late and David Gosling provided an example of lost ways in Pott Shrigley near Bollington. Rhoda’s article also suggested a training course on ‘Lost Ways’. ...
Since our last report in December 2015, the team have added 11 new signposts, with 5 more planned, and performed maintenance on 8 existing signs. ...
I am pleased to report that the Society has funded a small, but immaculate, new bridge 37 across a Gigg Brook tributary near Etherow Country Park, north of Compstall. A S Treeworks of Disley performed the work, ...
Like many people, I first became aware of PNFS through their classic signposts, which my wife and I discovered whilst walking in the Peak District. For years, I would stop and photograph them! When I was lucky enough to retire early, ...
Users of the path network usually rely on their trusty Ordnance Survey map, either in paper form or some electronic derivative. However, that is not the full picture. ...
At the recent Society AGM, there was a discussion about whether or not you could remove brambles, nettles, barbed wire, walls, fences and anything else which was obstructing your safe and convenient passage along a public right of way. ...
Whilst you won’t be sent packing if you turn up here in a car, the great thing about the No Car café is the special welcome given to walkers, cyclists and horse riders. ...
The Society involves itself in a range of publicity activities such as: presentations to interested groups; stands at events; Facebook and web information on our web pages; and publications such as this newsletter. ...
Membership subscriptions are due within one month of each AGM, so all members who have not yet renewed this year (2016) should do so at the appropriate rate ...
Signpost is edited and published for the Society by Ian Salvage, publicity@pnfs.org.uk. Postal: contact via Taylor House, 23 Turncroft Lane, Offerton, Stockport, SK1 4AB. Design and Print by Lymetrees (Tel / text 07984 059150).
The views expressed in this newsletter do not necessarily reflect the Society
| Page title: | Signpost 51, July 2016 |
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| Address: | https://peakandnorthern.org.uk/newsletter/1607-signpost51.htm |
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