Welcome to The Aycliffe Fell Walking Club Website

Aycliffe Fell Walking Club is based in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham (near Darlington in the North East of England) and is open to everyone interested in fell walking or rambling. It caters for walkers of all abilities and ages. It became Aycliffe Fell Walking Club in 2011.

Each outing has a variety of walks of different lengths and difficulty ratings and transport is by comfortable coach that picks up in Darlington, Newton Aycliffe and Bishop Auckland.

The pickup times and routes are always published in each notification post, which can be accessed from this website.

Walking Routes at the click of a mouse!

Country Walking and Trail have launched a new Routes website, giving you access to loads of great walks at the click of a mouse button. Each walk comes with clear Ordnance Survey mapping and step-by-step directions.

The service is FREE to all Country Walking and Trail subscribers, who also receive FREE online access to Ordnance Survey Landranger mapping for the whole of Britain. Other readers can still search the database and pay to subscribe to the online routes service. They’ve teamed up with Memory-Map TrailZilla to make the site ultra-easy to use.

You can search walks, and download maps, step-by-step directions and GPS trails. You can even upload your own walks for others to share.

To find out more, click here: www.lfto.com/routes

Record number of visitors for January 2012

The new website continues to attract new visitors and members, and in January 2012 the website received a new record number of visits. 208 people came to our site during the month, viewing 488 pages. Thanks for the support, especially those people who have supplied pictures, and I hope to add more articles in 2012.

Request – if anyone can write a ‘story of their walk’ when they go on Aycliffe Fell Walking Club trips, we’d like to hear from you. If you are signed up as a member of the Aycliffe Fell Walking Club website (and 18 of you have so far), you can contribute your posts to the site. Once they’ve been checked out, we’ll publish them. We’d really like this to become reality, as the site truly then becomes ‘yours’ as members.

Minutes of the 2011 AGM

Here are the minutes from the 2011 AGM of the Aycliffe Fell Walking Club, held on Wednesday 2nd November 2011.

Minutes of previous AGM
Chairman’s and Walk Secretary’s Reports
Secretary’s, Membership Secretary’s, Publicity and Treasurer’s Report
Election of Officers
Programme of Walks for 2012
Appendices

2011-11-AGM-minutes

Festive walk for Lake District fells weather assessor

For one Cumbrian resident Christmas Day will begin with a walk to the top of one of England’s highest mountains. Jason Taylor, 38, is a fell-top weather assessor for the Lake District National Park and regularly climbs Helvellyn to report on the summit conditions. The Weatherline service has operated for 36 years and is used by more than half a million people each year. The Christmas Day climb was cancelled in 2009 for the first time in 34 years due to a staff vacancy. Mr Taylor, from Penrith, said: “My wife is Danish and we tend to celebrate on Christmas Eve”.

More : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-16194796

2011 Prize Draw Results

Aycliffe Fell Walking Club – Wines and Spirits Draw – The winning numbers!

The wining numbers drawn today are pasted below or can be seen on the sheet which is attached.

To claim your prize and to arrange collection, please contact the person who sold you your ticket.

AFWC-2011-Prize-draw-results

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