General Info
Information for Walk Leaders and Walkers
Walk leaders when looking for inspiration can see all past walks on the old web site by clicking on legacy web site at the bottom of the home page
You are welcome to join any walks and to bring friends. Please let the walk leader know if you plan to bring anyone. And remember that we hope that people who come on more than one or two walks will join the LWG.
As always we are grateful to our leaders: here is a check list for the information needed – please let me, Margaret Miles, have the details 3 weeks before the date so that I can circulate to the group.
If you need a map, contact me to see if the LWG has one or can buy one for you.
Walk Check List
- Date
- Leaders
- Home Tel
- Mobile
- Meeting Point
- Meeting Time
- OS Map Number
- Grid Reference
- Distance in miles
- Travel with station details or brief road route
- Brief outline of route
- Pub name and village
- Is food to be pre-ordered?
- Are muddy boots and/or dogs allowed in pub?
- Can own food be eaten in garden?
- Any common land nearby for eating own lunch?
- Historical, geographical or other notes
Useful Links
The Trainline
For travel tickets and timetables - http://www.thetrainline.com/buytickets/
National Rail
For engineering works or phone 08457 48 49 50 - http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/
The AA
For planning a car journey - http://www.theaa.com/route-planner/index.jsp
Multimap
For OS type maps - http://www.multimap.com/maps/
Walkers
Walking World (website: http://walks.walkingworld.com/ The LWG is a member – contact me (Margaret Miles)if you want to download a walk)
The Countryside Code
The full code is available on the Ramblers Website
Here are a few reminders:
- Be safe, plan ahead and follow any signs
- Leave gates and property as you find them
- Protect plants and animals and take your litter home
- Keep dogs under close control
- Consider other people
For us I think that it is also important:
On the roads walk in a group on the right, facing the traffic, where it is safe to do so. Try not to have a split group.
Try to keep behind the leader, and carry a mobile with either the leader's or a fellow walker's number (mobile numbers are now in the directory) in case you get lost or detached from the group.
It is useful to pack water, a snack and a small first aid kit in your rucksack, including a blister kit.
Please remember that you walk entirely at your own risk – the LWG does not have any insurance cover in case of accident or incident arising from any of our walks.
OTHER IDEAS FOR WALKING
CRUISE AND WALK HOLIDAYS
A few years ago Ramblers Holidays Worldwide got together with Fred Olson Cruise Lines (originally at a dinner party, I believe) and thought up the idea of a Cruise and Walk Holiday (C&WH), two of which I have now been on. You are in a relatively small group of about 35 people, including two leaders, who are travelling with the other hundreds of regular cruise customers on a cruise ship. Whereas the other hundreds go sightseeing when the ship docks, the Ramblers go on a country hike. So you get the best of both worlds: you are having a walking holiday and a cruise, with all the luxury, facilities and activities available on a cruise ship (if you like that sort of thing). Being on a ship also means that you are walking in lots of different places which are miles apart, all in one holiday.
My first C&WH was in July 2012 travelling around the Baltic. It was in the two weeks when the weather was good, so that the sun shone even in St Petersburg, which only has on average 30 days of sunshine a year. This C&WH called ‘Baltic Discovery’ was of necessity a mainly sightseeing – with only two really country walks, but we Ramblers walked around the cities more than the other hundreds. I knew this would be the case but the itinerary was too good to miss: Rostock, Tallinn, St Petersburg (for two days, and there we had to be in coaches as we had no visas), Helsinki, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Kristiansand (Norway). We also had five full days at sea, during which there were concerts, art classes, Pilates, etc.
My second C&WH was for ten days in July this year. Again I was lucky enough to hit the heat wave (during which my attic flat would have been unbearable) and the places we visited were uncharacteristically warm. This was ‘Roaming Around Britain and Ireland’ and, again, I was attracted by the itinerary: Guernsey, Dublin, Tobermory (Island of Mull), Ullapool, Orkney, Isle of Lewis, Belfast (Giant’s Causeway). This time the novelty of life on a cruise ship had worn off a bit, so I don’t think I’ll be going on cruises much in the future, but the walks under cloudless skies were wonderful. I got a chance to see the city of Dublin which I loved (and the silky-smooth draught Guinness), and the Stone-Age settlements on Orkney were a highlight too.
If you’re interested go to www.cruiseandwalk.co.uk
Posted by: Joy Puritz on Monday, 26th August 2013