Latest News

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• Latest News Events

• 'Walking the way to Health' aims to get more
  people walking in their own communities,
  especially those who take little exercise or live
  in areas of poor health. 

• Sunday 24th September1000 am Mortimer
  Fairground, Victoria Road, Mortimer,

• Welcome to Walking Week
• 16 - 24 September 2006
• National Day of Walking
• 17 September 2006

• Summer events 2006 West Berkshire Countryside
  Service

• Walking events the Ramblers association

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Walking groups - 1

• East Berkshire Ramblers
• West Berkshire Ramblers
• Mid Berkshire Ramblers
• South East Berkshire Ramblers
• Pang Valley group
• Loddon Valley group
• Windsor and District group
• Berkshire walkers group

• Newbury

• Thatcham

• Bracknell
• Maidenhead
• Reading
• Wokingham

• Disabled ramblers

• Purley Pathfinders

• Berkshire Blisters

• Amesbury Walkers

• More walking groups gtgtgt

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Walking groups - 2

• Gay Outdoor Club

• British Walking Federation

• Thames Valley long distance walkers

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Access for the disabled
The specific problems encountered by people with
disabilities in enjoying the outdoors vary
according to the individual disability. We give
practical advice relating to individual
disabilities.
Our membership is mainly mobility disabled
people. We get about using electrically powered
chairs / scooters.
English Nature believes that opportunities should
be available to everyone including visitors with
physical disabilities or special needs.
Fieldfare works with people with disabilities and
countryside managers to improve access to the
countryside for everyone.

• Marlborough Walks on Wheels

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Walk finders maps

• Open access maps - interactve

• Ordnance survey buy maps online

• Forestry commission

• The ramblers association

• Welcome to Walking

• Where can we go search the events diary

• Active places search for sports and leisure
  activities

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Self guided walks
Long walks to enjoy in different ways, dip in for
half or a full days walk or enjoy the Trails in
sections perhaps at weekends, or complete all
at once.

• Ridgeway National Trail

• Thames Path National Trail

• The Berkshire Way

• Walking by UK waterways

• Along the Kennet Avon Canal

• walks, rides and areas of open access provided
  under the Countryside Stewardship,
  Environmentally Sensitive Areas and Environmental
  Stewardship Schemes

• Thames Valley long distance walkers

• Three Castles Path

• Thames Valley Circular Walk

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Beginners / family walks

• Walking the way to health

• First Steps -the ramblers association

• Walking with children

• Discovering fossils

• The National Trust

• Walk to school 2006

• Thatcham nature discovery centre

• Walks around Lambourn

• Greenham common

• Newbury Town Centre walk

• Padworth common

• Snelsmore common

• Hosehill Lake - Theale

• Walks around Reading

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Health and fitness

• bbc.co.uk/health

• Walking the way to health

• Green exercise

• Everyday sport

Ramblers Association

• Walking for you

• Take 30

• British Heart Foundation

• Race walking

RACE WALKING

• Ticks and Lyme disease

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Links to useful websites

• Rural Ways

• National Trust

• West Berkshire Council

• Walking-routes.co.uk

• Countryside Access

• Hillwalking.org.uk

• The Countryside code

• RSPB Countryside

• Walking guide books

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Getting there

• Public passenger transport information from West
  Berkshire Council

• The Kennet Avon Sunday Shuttle Service
  Connecting Bradford-on-Avon, Devizes, Pewsey,
  Crofton and Great Bedwyn

• National Rail enquiries

• Newbury buses