Holywell Dene Walk
An Autumn walk on Sunday November 9th.
We meet at 2.00pm at the East end of Holywell Dene Road. Most people will be travelling North from Earsdon on A192. As you enter Holywell from the south, turn right at Milbourne Arms into Holywell Dene Road. At east end the road will turn into a farm track. We meet here. Suggest you park either on Holywell Dene Rd or on East Grange.
Duration of walk: 2hrs on well walked footpaths with some ups and downs.
We are leaving a car at the end to take drivers back to the start.
PLEASE LET US KNOW IF YOU ARE COMING BY EITHER LETTING ROB KNOW OR BY LIKING THE POST.
Nature writer Nicola Chester writing in RSPB Magazine, Autumn 2025 challenges us to go out and wear Autumn:
‘There’s a magical day in each season, or rather, a few salted moments of shift – an atmosphere, a temperature, a smell, the sound or sight of a particular bird or insect- that announces softly the next season is waiting in the wings. We feel it bodily, sensually, emotionally and often spiritually too. Feelings that stir a raft of associative memories, that deeply still connect us with the earth’s turning and all the other life that experiences it with us. It’s particularly powerful in Spring and Autumn- the year’s morning and evening, if you like-but perhaps it’s most poignant in Autumn. A sign that life is moving inexorably forward, that things must change, end, and begin to begin. If we nurture a connection with nature, there is comfort and re assurance to be found. Now, having come unsettingly early this year, it is fully Autumn and those salted moments of shift are already beginning to prep invitation cards for winter. It’s the season we must get out and wear, to feel it fully, to know it’s place in things- and our place within that. To take and make our own comforts and delights, to build our resilience, perhaps to try new things, make new discoveries’
Let’s take up Nicola’s suggestion and try to wear Autumn. I’m not precisely sure what that means but let’s be bold and seek to explore what it might mean.
Have a great walk and may your looking and finding be not only enjoyable but fulfilling and uplifting.
Take care
Blessings
Pete
Rob Wylie is the founder of BeachcomberFX and guides its leadership team. He has worked in the North East for over 20 years and has vast experience from various roles he has held. He has a passion for Fresh Expressions of Church and Pioneer Ministry as well as beer, beaches and Miniature Schnauzers.