Charnwood Borough Council - Leading in Leicestershire

Walking is healthy, cheap and easy and readily available to everyone.However, even though walking is a great way to keep fit, most of us will find any excuse to get out of this most basic form of exercise, something which we should possibly reconsider.

The Benefits of Walking

It's easy to get started:

• Almost anyone can do it
• You can do it anywhere at any time
• You don't need special equipment
• It's free and easy and all our walks are graded into levels of difficulty
• You can start slowly and build up gently. If you can only walk for a couple of minutes and then you need to rest that's OK. Where you start from isn't important - it's where you're going that counts!

Walking can bring added benefits:

• Led walks are a chance to meet people and make friends - they can be fun
• It's a gentle exercise and its suitable if you are recovering from heart trouble, a stroke or other illness
• Walking schemes such as ours, which have the Walking For Health Initiative accreditation, can help improve your local environment by clearing/maintaining local paths and increasing the number of safe areas to walk

Guided Walks

Charnwood Borough Council is pleased to offer its walking programme for 2008. The walks we have on offer cover a variety of locations across the Borough, and include pleasant walks in beautiful surroundings, with other people, some of whom may well
become your friends.

The walks programme has received the 'Walking for Health' national accreditation. This shows that the scheme is properly monitored and evaluated and conforms to current regulations and standards.

Our 2009 walks brochure will be available in February 2009, but we have some continuation walks, details below, running from the end of our 2008 brochure until the start of the 2009 brochure.

• Guided Walks in & around Charnwood 2008 (PDF Document 1.17 Mb.)

If you require any further information, please call Nita Pearson Active Lifestyle Development Officer on 01509 634594 or email nita.pearson@charnwood.gov.uk.

• Loughborough Town Trail
• Woodhouse Eaves Trail
• Thorpe Acre Trail
• Walking for nature leaflet
• Leicestershire County Council Walks
• Walking the way to health initiative
• Queens Park - Historical information (Word Document 3.85 Mb.)
• Charnwood Walks January - April 2009 Charnwood Walks January 2009 - April 2009 (Word Document 187 Kb.)
• 14 Family Walks information (Word Document 25.5 Kb.)
• Family Walks Around Charnwood No 1 (PDF Document 695.33 Kb.)
• Family Walks Around Charnwood No 2 (PDF Document 661.19 Kb.)
• Family Walks Around Charnwood No 3 (PDF Document 718.72 Kb.)
• Family Walks Around Charnwood No 4 (PDF Document 1.44 Mb.)
• Family Walks Around Charnwood No 5 (PDF Document 1.36 Mb.)
• Family Walks Around Charnwood No 6 (PDF Document 782.59 Kb.)
• Family Walks in Charnwood No 7 (PDF Document 1.87 Mb.)
• Family Walks in Charnwood No 8 (PDF Document 804.41 Kb.)
• Family Walks in Charnwood No 9 (PDF Document 780.54 Kb.)
• Family Walks Around Charnwood No 10 (PDF Document 843.41 Kb.)
• Family Walks Around Charnwood No 11 (PDF Document 807.8 Kb.)
• Family Walks Around Charnwood No 12 (PDF Document 757.03 Kb.)
• Family Walks Around Charnwood No 13 (PDF Document 746.69 Kb.)
• Family Walk Around Charnwood No 14 (PDF Document 928.32 Kb.)

Guided Walks around Charnwood 2009 brochure

• Guided Walks around Charnwood 2009 (PDF Document 2.49 Mb.)