Walks & Events

Something for everyone, and every ability

Regular Walks

We organise midweek health walks around 3 miles in length starting at 10.30 am. and easy and fortnightly Saturday walks between 6 and 7 miles starting at 11.00 am which can be easy and or moderate.

For details of meeting point and postcode of the walk you wish to join us on, please get in touch a minimum 24 hours before the the start, a one off £5 registration fee applies. You can see some of our upcoming events below.

Social Events

We source out and subsidise great deals for social events anything from meals out, Ten Pin Bowling, Murder Mysteries, Live Entertainment, Casino nights, Yorkshire Wildlife Park, Days out in York, Whitby, Flamborough & Llandudno, Ghost walks, Crown Green bowling, Yorkshire Mining Museum, The Deep in Hull, Disco themed nights to weekends away where we have 3 walks of suitability each day from Easy, Moderate and Strenurous, so there is something for eveyone.

Over the years we have had some fantastic group holiday too, no more paying out for expensive singles holidays and all with the option of planned walks, or for our members just to relax and enjoy the sun, countries visited by our shamblers on tour include Turkey, Tunisia, Egypt, Greece and Gran Canaria.

Details of our events can be found on our forum once you have formally joined us.

Upcoming Walks and Events

A one off £5.00 joining fee on your first walk is all it costs, after this all walks are free.

On each walk we have an optional £1 50/50 raffle draw this enables us to get a few funds so we can subsidise socials and trips as well as maintain this website and our indemnity insurance. Again its optional. everyone associated with the planning and running of The Shamblers and all our walk leaders are dedicated volunteers.

We try to keep this page updated regularly but please contact us if you’d like full details on our upcoming walks.

Please Bring a Packed Lunch and Drink (except Wednesdays)

Please Note: YOU WALK AT YOUR OWN RISK

Every Wed

Every Wednesday Chapeltown Walk

Our regular Wednesday walk setting off from Chapeltown. All walks are easy or moderate.

May

Old Moor

This is a 6 mile walk and is easy Old Moor is an RSPB reserve. Some 250 acres of wetlands occupy a former coal waste tip from nearby Watt – Manvers Colliery, now restored with resplendent ponds, reed-beds and grasslands. This is a flat walk along the Barnsley Canal to Elsecar Heritage Centre and back.

Oxspring

This walk is 4.5 miles ans is easy. Starting in Oxspring, this short walk takes you on the TPT, through woods, close to the River Don and over the Rumtickle Viaduct. Country lanes, TPT, woods and fields with well-marked paths (and stiles). Includes a mix of both gentle and steep climbs. Can be very muddy in parts

May 2025

May

Wentworth to Elsecar

This is a 4.5 miles walk. Leaving the chocolate box village of Wentworth we head through fields and woods down to Elsecar where we will stop for lunch at the heritage centre before returning back to the village for a welcome drink at the Rockingham arms