Crows’ Eye View of “Walkin’ round Pecket”: the making of the Pecket Well Village Walks leaflet.

Paul Degnan

Crows’ Eye View of “Walkin’ round Pecket”: the making of the Pecket Well Village Walks leaflet.T

he Pecket Well Village Walks leaflet is the latest in a series of leaflets published by Friends of Calderdale Countryside (FOCC) in conjunction with CROWS (Community Rights of Way Service) volunteers. The talk covers a post-Covid community effort in making the leaflet: the key players involved and the surveys and the repairs of the three walks. There are tales to be told with about  landmarks and features encountered on the walks, including Pecket Well village, the moorland landscape and the view over Old Town.

Paul Degnan has been a CROWS volunteer for ten years and manages the Wadsworth area. A resident of Old Town, Paul retired from a career in Social Work in 2013. A keen hiker, storyteller and writer, he helped to run Shaggy Dog Storytelling Club for many years and in 2021, published a collection of short stories, many of which relate to the local area. Paul loves walking out in the countryside to study the local flora and fauna along with discovering the local history of the place.