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Tina and her Autumn at Ashridge walkers
Hello Everyone
New Members
A very warm welcome to new Associate members Josie Foster and Tom Timms - we look forward to meeting you on one of our group walks or challenge events.
Photos
Strawberry Hill for Autumn - Thursday 5th November
Steve’s report and photos Photos
Autumn at Ashridge - Sunday 8th November
Some of Tina's photos Photos
This week‘s walk is the Steppingley Step Challenge Event
This popular event has been fully booked for many weeks. Good luck to everybody taking part. 25 or so members will be helping at the event HQ (Barton-Le-Clay) and at the three checkpoints the participants will visit during the day. Looking forward to a good day for everyone.
Full details of all BBN’s future social walks and challenge events can be found on the BBN website Our Walks
AGM Lunch - Sunday 29th November
Following the 8½ mile morning walk starting at 8.45am from Yardley Hastings Memorial Hall, the AGM meal will take place at the nearby Rose & Crown at 12.30pm. Your meal must be pre-ordered. Menu Please help Alan by emailing your food choices as soon as possible and by 22nd November at the latest acleadbetter64@gmail.com
Full details of the walk, lunch and AGM are here Info
Committee Meeting – 28th October 2026
The Minutes are on the website – any comments or questions, please let me know. Meetings
New Walk Registers
There are new walk register forms. These can be downloaded from the Toolkit (under Social Walks) on the LDWA website. They can also be accessed via a link in the Document Store on the BBN website.
Here you will also find links to new Social Walk Guidelines – there will be a further update about this in the next few weeks.
London Group are walking in our area this coming weekend
Please check here for any last minute changes to walk details. https://ldwa.org.uk/London/E/0/walks-prog-list.html
Saturday 14th November - Camino de Eleanor Part 5
Distance: 21 miles Start Time: 9:00
Meet at Northampton Railway Station (07.56 from Euston arrives 08.55
Notes: We are heading further north in the Eleanor Crosses pilgrimage but still within an hour of a main London station so I hope you will join me, particularly as you will get to see one of the original mediaeval crosses today. Today's route is fairly flat and includes a good section of grand union canal. We start in Northampton, see the cross, head down the canal to Stony Stratford, which was once the site of another cross and also home to the famous Cock and Bull inns of 'cock and bull story' fame. For those who like a pub at the end, we will break with tradition and have a stop at one of these historic inns. Then a simple two mile walk to Wolverton, from where you can catch a train back to London. Please bring packed lunch and plenty of water, as well as headtorch as sunset is at 4.13pm today.
Sunday 15th November
Camino de Eleanor Part 6 - Distance: 16.5 miles
Start Time: 9:00
Meet at Wolverton Railway Station (07.51 from Euston arrives 08.55).
Notes: Today's route picks up where we left off yesterday, walking through the site of mediaeval Wolverton to Stony Stratford, with its long High Street and many coaching inns. Yes, there is a seven mile option along Watling Street, which is the route they would have taken in 1290 but, having walked this for research purposes, I cannot recommend it. Therefore I will be taking you on a perambulation around the boundary of Milton Keynes, calling in at a couple of villages and finishing at Bletchley railway station, or Captain Ridley's Shooting Party (Wetherspoons, named after the MI6 scouts who chose Bletchley Park as the wartime home for the Government Code and Cypher School). Please bring lunch and plenty of water plus a headtorch, as sunset is at 4.11pm today.
Contact: Catharine Gregory 07876 577037 for use on day only catharinegregory@hotmail.co.uk
This week we’re celebrating 226 years since the publication of the first
OS map.
What’s a pirate’s favourite map?
The one with an X on it!
Why did the cartographer get kicked out of map making club?
He had a bad latitude.
What is the highest form of flattery?
A plateau.
Geography teacher: Please name a country with no ‘R’ in it?
Student: No way!
What do you call an island populated entirely by cupcakes?
Desserted
Where can you find an ocean without any water?
On a map!
Why was the map always calm?
It knew the way!
Gill Bunker
bbn.secretary@ldwa.org.uk
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