Category Archives: Reports

High Coniscliffe

Brian Wood 22 April Nine club members left Abbey Road at 7pm and journeyed to HighConiscliffe where we met up with Fal Sarker who had an earlier start.Due to the prolonged fine weather the path was dry and comfortable towalk on, the weather was perfect for an evening walk.We headed down the track to the […]

Rainton Meadows

Fleur Miles April 2025 Four of us (Fleur Miles (Leader), Carole Sobkoviak, Derek Risbey andMary Atkinson) set off from Abbey Road at 10:00am on Tuesday 15 April2025 for Rainton Meadows, the Headquarters of Durham Wildlife Trust.The weather was light overcast sky with a temperature of 12oC with nowind. We arrived at Rainton Meadows at 10:30am […]

Brusselton Incline

20th May 2025. Leader JillCunningham.This meet was programmed to co-inside with the 200th anniversary ofthe S and D Railway and12 DTNFC members attended on a warm,sunny afternoon.We walked beside the surviving Engine House and cottages andobserved the raised walling made of the original stone sleepers. Thehistory and mechanics of the stationary steam engine, Incline equipmentand […]

Hell Kettles

Hell Kettles 21 st of June 2022 was the longest day in the Northern Hemisphere and our club members werewalking, recording flora and fauna in the Hell Kettles. Famous botanists of Darlington, StephenRobson (1777), Dr.R.Taylor Manson (1884), J.B.Nicholson (! 929) visited and recorded plants atHell Kettles. There were two theories about the origins of these […]