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A walk around Farnham. The LDWA has over 40 local groups, [8] which organise challenge events and social walks. It publishes a journal, Strider, three times a year, [9] and maintains a data base of long-distance paths, and registers of achievements in hillwalking and trail walking.
There is no formal definition of a long-distance path, though the British Long Distance Walkers Association defines one as a route "20 miles [32 km] or more in length and mainly off-road." [ 1 ] They usually follow existing rights of way , often over private land, linked and sometimes waymarked to make a named route. [ 3 ]
The Long Distance Walkers Association (LDWA) has the most comprehensive online database of long-distance paths in the UK, [7] and members are able to download GPX files of routes. The association also maintains the LDWA National Trails Register, [ 8 ] with different levels of membership for people who have completed five, 10, 15 or all 19 of ...
Details of connecting routes may be found on the Limestone Way page of the Long Distance Walkers' Association website. [1] The official guidebook is the Limestone Way Walker's Guide, published by Derbyshire Dales District Council. [19] The route is marked on Ordance Survey maps and is covered by three OS Explorer maps:
He has created many long-distance walks including The Limey Way, The Peakland Way, and Jennifer's Challenge Walk and more than 50 day challenge walks, which have been used to raise more than £1.3 million for different charities. He has also written about non-walking matters such as Essex Witch Walks, Legends of Derbyshire, Sir Richard ...
The Vanguard Way is a long-distance walk of 66.2 mi (106.5 km) [1] from East Croydon station in outer London (OS grid reference), travelling from the north, to Newhaven, on the south coast of England. [2] [3] It passes through the counties of Surrey, Kent and East Sussex, between Croydon and Newhaven, East Sussex. [2]
The walk is mainly on tracks and green lanes, taking in the wide tracts of countryside in eastern Hertfordshire, western Essex and southern Cambridgeshire, mostly within what is now known as The Hundred Parishes and dropping into many villages on the way, passing many places of historic interest.
The White Rose Walk, a 35-mile (56 km) trail located in North Yorkshire, England, was devised in 1968 by the Yorkshire Wayfarers, [1] It starts at the Kilburn White Horse (National Grid Ref SE 514 813) and is completed by touching the trig point on top of Roseberry Topping (NZ 579 126).