Presented by
Friends of Spital Cemetery
Starting point
Spital Cemetery, opposite the chapels
S41 0DZ
What to take
- a drink
- comfortable shoes or boots
- warm, waterproof clothing in case of rain
Overview of walk grades
- Easy Access - Suitable for people with conventional wheelchairs and pushchairs.
- Easy - For anyone who doesn’t have a mobility or specific health problem, or is seriously unfit.
- Leisurely - For reasonably fit people with at least a little country walking experience
- Moderate - For people with country walking experience and a good level of fitness.
- Strenuous - For experienced country walkers with an above average fitness level.
Access
Registered assistance dogs welcome.
Victorian Philanthropy and Three Chesterfield Women
Walking Festival 2025 (Leisurely, 4 miles)
- Accessibility of route - Leisurely
- Description of route - Circular, no stiles, stops for brief points of information.
- Length of route (miles) - 4 miles
- Typical duration of route - 3 hours
- Free on street parking - Next to chapels or on Cemetery Road (one way, access via Valley Road).
- Dogs on leads welcome
- Toilets available at some point on route
- By bus: Buses to Royal Hospital, stop at Cemetery Road.
- By rail: Chesterfield Railway Station
This walk includes sights of interest relating to three women either buried in Spital Cemetery or who had connections with Spital (Blanche Eastwood, Violet Markham and Mary Swanwick).
Leaving the Cemetery, we will follow the old mining track to the town’s original municipal golf course, first passing Brambling Cottage (once the home of Blanche Eastwood). We will then return to town through the golf course, taking in the Markham grave memorial, the site of the former Markham works with its “Snail Turbine” sculpture, the former site of the Eastwood Wagon Works. We will briefly visit the 17th century Unitarian Chapel at Elder Yard where Mary Swanwick worshipped.
A couple of points of further interest relating to two suffragettes will be pointed out along the way. We will conclude the walk with an offer of refreshments and a brief talk about the people buried in the cemetery and the work of the Friends group.
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