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Anglo-German Walks
- Offers a chance to get to know and go hiking with German and English speaking ramblers, by organising a programme of walks in Germany and the UK.
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The Backpackers Club
- Promotes and encourages lightweight camping and backpacking; includes details of membership, benefits, and publications, with an events diary and contacts.
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Backpacking In Britain
- Personal site logging many walks with descriptions and photographs.
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Boots and Paws
- Details of dog friendly walks, photography, places to visit and accommodation from around the UK and Ireland.
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British Walking Federation
- Member of the International Federation of Popular Sports (IVV) promoting public health by offering non-competitive outdoor events; includes information about membership and their awards scheme, with a guide to events and national trails.
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Car Free Walks
- Source of walking route guides that encourage people to explore the UK countryside without the need to take their car.
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Cheviots Challenge
- An annual long distance walk in the Cheviot Hills, open to walkers and fell runners, to raise funds for the Northumberland National Park Mountain Rescue Team. Includes a history, entry details, route information, news, and contacts.
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Discovering Britain
- Showcasing a variety of geographically themed walks around Britain.
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Footprints Walking Club
- Organises walking events around the country; day walks, weekend breaks, and longer holidays. Includes information about their national and regional programmes, membership, and contacts.
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Geowalks
- An Edinburgh geologist offers a programme of day walks and walking holidays exploring the richness and variety of Scotland's geology. Includes a schedule, details of education prorgrammes, a blog, and contacts.
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Go4awalk.com
- A walking portal, with a library of routes, advice, ideas, and interactive resources.
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GrabYourBoots.com
- Offers a UK-wide directory of walks and walking events, with a newsletter.
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Happy Hiker
- A keen walker provides a library of walks around England and Wales, with maps, GPS downloads, photos, and a collection of advice resources.
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Heritage Paths Project
- Works to identify, research, and promote historic paths of all sorts in Scotland, from Roman roads to drove roads; includes an expanding gazetteer with access information, learning resources, and contacts.
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John and Anne Nuttall
- Manchester Evening News columnists and authors of number of books about walking and climbing; includes photo galleries, lists, details of their lectures, and a range of resources.
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Kinder Trespass
- Commemorates the mass trespass of Kinder Scout by ramblers in April, 1932, and the part it played in establishing National Parks and opening up access to moorland and countryside across the UK; includes a history, resources, and a trail.
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Lakeland Walks
- Provides a walking diary about the walks of a group of friends as they walk around the English Lake District.
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Lochalsh Dirty 30
- An annual hill walking event around Glenelg in Lochalsh, covering 30 miles in 24 hours; includes route and entry details, and practical information for visitors and participants.
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Marilyn News Centre
- A comprehensive guide to the British Marilyns (hills of any height with a drop of 150 metres or more on all sides), and hill list competitions.
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Ministry of Defence Access and Recreation
- A guide to access and walking opportunities on Defence land; includes a gazetteer, organised by region.
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The Mountains of the United Kingdom and Ireland
- A website for hill walkers and summit-baggers, with accurate Ordnance Survey grid references for the 2000ft mountain tops, and prominent lower hills, organised by lists, type, and area. Also offers advice and guidance, and details of membership and league tables.
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MyWainwrights
- A photographic walking journal of the author's walking trips.
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National Trust: Walking
- Features information from the National Trust about walks on and near its properties, including a selection of themed walks and car-free walks.
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One Foot
- Presents a photo diary of walks in the English Lake District, Yorkshire Dales and on the Limestone Fringe.
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Paths for All Partnership
- Established to create local path networks throughout Scotland; offers information about their projects, news, events, and training.
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Peak Walker
- Photo diary of Angela Clarke's walks, illustrating the different moods and beauty of the English landscape and in particular that of the Peak District.
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Pushchair Walks
- A collection of over 250 tried and tested family-friendly pushchair walks across Britain, with a newsletter, contacts, links, and details of their books.
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Rambleon.org.uk
- A walking and rambling information resource for England and Wales, with links, and listings of national and regional long-distance paths, and festivals.
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The Ramblers
- A membership charity promoting recreational walking; information about campaigns to preserve rights of way and access to the countryside, newsletters, a directory of walking routes and paths, and their local group network.
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Ramblings
- Official site of the BBC Radio 4 programme about walking in the UK; includes a library of podcasts and an archive of walks covered.
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Red Rope
- National walking and climbing club, the club has socialist, left-wing and alternative roots and is still organised with socialist and green ethics in mind.
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ScottishHills.com
- Offers a forum, trip reports, and resource maps for walking the hills of Scotland.
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Share the Fell Walking Experience
- Walk descriptions and photographs from the Lake District fells, Scottish and Welsh mountains and other hills in England.
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Social Hiking
- Offers a free mobile phone app to extends the functionality of ViewRanger and allow walkers to share their progress live on a map with embedded tweets, photos, blog posts and audio clips. Includes a collection of featured routes and examples of its use.
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Statistical Topics in Hillwalking
- Maintains the DoBH (Database of British Hills); includes downloads, background to the project, a collection of articles and links.
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TGO (The Great Outdoors)
- A monthly magazine for the independent hillwalker and backpacker. Includes a gazetteer of walks, articles and features, news, and details of their annual TGO Challenge, the world's only organised backpack.
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The TGO Challenge
- An annual self-supported walking event across the Highlands of Scotland, west coast to east coast, held every May; includes information for participants, a forum, and resources.
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Thames Path Challenge
- Offers opportunities to participate in 100km or 50km charity walks along the Thames Path; includes entry details for individuals and teams, information for and about charities, and contacts.
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The Three Peaks Trial
- Organised challenge walk arranged each year in March by the Cardiff Outdoor Group.
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Trailwalker
- An annual 100km walking challenge event organised by Oxfam and the Gurkha Welfare Trust; includes entry details, resources for teams and fundraising, route, news, and contacts.
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Trekking in Britain
- Provides a wide range of walking routes, with OS maps and GPS files, organised by area.
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UK Walking & Hiking Forum
- Forum for discussing all aspects of country walking and hiking in the UK with boards for general chat, gear, long distance trails, and all the popular UK walking destinations.
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Ulster Federation of Walking Clubs
- Affiliated to the Ramblers Association; includes details of member clubs, a guide to the Ulster Way, news, and walking holiday links.
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Urbanwalks
- Designs tailor-made walking routes for the community, workplace and school, to encourage local communities to become more active; with details of their services, resources, and contacts.
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Walk
- Online edition of the magazine of the Ramblers; includes news and features, covering walking, geocaching, events and festivals, reviews, and walking routes. Includes subscription details.
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Walk 4 Life
- Allows users to find walks of any length local to them, and to upload their own walks and measure them.
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Walk England
- A social enterprise working to get more people walking to more places; provides information about their projects and activities, with contacts.
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Walk Highlands
- Online guide to walking and the outdoors for the Highlands of Scotland. Includes routes and maps, accommodation, and news.
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Walk North Wales
- A keen walker and photographer provides a library of walks and cycling routes in the area, with maps, elevation profiles, and GPS files.
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Walkers are Welcome
- Network of eighteen towns across the UK of interest to walkers; includes case studies and resources.
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Walking and Hiking
- Specialist advice site offers tips and advice on trekking and rambling in safety.
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Walking Britain
- Dedicated to enjoyment of the footpaths of Britain, with thousands of pages of resources, maps and information.
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The Walking Englishman
- Contains extensive walking resources including guides, maps and journals for both long distance and shorter walks across England.
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Walking for Health
- Encourages people to become physically active in their local communities by supporting a network of health walk schemes across England, offering regular short walks over easy terrain with trained walk leaders.
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Walking World
- Community offering access to thousands of user contributed walking routes around Britain.
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Walkit.com
- Offers an interactive mapping service to find walking routes in a number of UK cities, getting people walking for all/part of any given journey. Includes a FAQ and contacts.
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Walks with Buggies
- Provides information on walking routes around the UK that are suitable for parents with buggies and young children.
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Walks with Wheelchairs
- A directory of walking routes suitable for wheelchair users throughout the UK.
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