Then, Now and Next Walk: Heavitree

Wednesday 3rd June at 14:00-16:00

Start at 2pm outside Waitrose

Diana Taylor will guide our walk in Junew. We will start outside Waitrose where the Heavitree workhouse used to be. We will then proceed up to Polsloe Road mainly down the main street, veering off to the Heavitree Church area. There are a lot of historic places in Heavitree and the walk will be focusing on these.

The walk will finish in Heavitree Pleasure Ground (park) and should take about 2 hours. There is a café in the park but it closes at 4pm. However there is a pub nearby if anyone needs a drink afterwards.

All our walks are advertised in the public section of our website under ‘Events’. They are also listed in the monthly News Bulletin. Before leaving home to join us on a walk, can we please ask you to check the website entry. At times we had to cancel walks last minute due to weather or illness of the lead. So please double-check that the walk is actually still on to avoid disappointments.

For walks you can subscribe (as preferred means of communications) to a Whatsapp group now run by Gert Vonhoff for the ECS walks under: https://chat.whatsapp.com/H9GRjkBkiIoBNc6ZfwAnMK ; all information and communications should preferably run via this group. You need to check before coming that the walk is on like scheduled, as cancellations will be notified through this platform. This Whatsapp group is restricted, so you need contact Gert to be granted access. This might take a few days, and it is best to send Gert an email with the request, your full name and mobile number, so he can add you to the group. Additionally you need to have Gert with mobile and email listed in your contacts.

As the function of the Whatsapp group is to communicate about the walks, please do not use this as a general chatroom.

If you prefer not to become member of the Whatsapp group, you are requested to book yourself in for each individual walk by either sending Gert an email (gertvonhoff@btinternet.com) or a text message to his mobile (07766 706614). This way we can inform you should a walk have to be cancelled with short notice.

Otherwise please use Gert’s mobile phone contact only as a means of last resort.

A word about insurance: please be aware, you won’t be insured via the Civic Society or the lead of a walk, but only by your own insurance.