Charnwood Borough Council

Click on the above attachment for the new guided walks brochure for 2010. (Please note: Walk on the 3rd June 2010 in Cropston starts at 10.00am)

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.

For details about access to public footpaths, bridleways and byways in Leicestershire visit the County Council's Website.

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

WALKING FESTIVALS

Charnwood Borough Council will be putting on extra walks for the Leicestershire Walking Festival which runs from 19-27 September 2010 and is also working with the National Forest Walk Festival. A leaflet is available from Leicestershire County Council, but further information can be obtained by contacting Leisure Services on 01509 634594 and mentioning Leicestershire Walking Festival

GUIDED WALKS FOR 2010

Charnwood Borough Council is pleased to offer its walking programme for 2010. 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 2010 walks brochure is now available. For your copy please contact 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
• 14 Family Walks information (Word Document 25.5 Kb.)

• Queens Park - Historical information (Word Document 3.85 Mb.)

FAMILY WALKS IN & AROUND CHARNWOOD

• Barrow upon Soar
• Stapleford Park & Boothwood Loughborough
• Watermead Park
• Groby Pool & Newtown Linford
• Mountsorrel, River Soar, Water Mill, Farm & Castle
• Around Rothley
• Swithland Wood to Newtown Linford
• Mount St Bernard Abbey & Forest Rock Wood
• Sutton Bonnington, The River Soar & Devils Elbow
• Old John Tower to Swithland Village
• Beacon Hill, Woodhouse Eaves & Hanging Stone
• Copt Oak, Charley & Old Rise Rocks
• Queniborough Ridge
• Cotes Stamford Hall, Church & Burton

Loughborough Ramblers club offers longer walks which may be of interest. They can be contacted on

http://www.loughboroughramblers.org.uk/

The National Forest Organisation also offers a wide variety of walk publications. Please see www.nationalforest.org for further details.

You may also be interested in some of Leicester City Council's walk brochures, and in particular Leicester's Riverside North (Watermead-Belgrave) which encompasses part of Watermead Country Park, Thurmaston and Birstall lock. Charnwood Borough Council have some copies of the Watermead walk, so please let us know if you would like one of these. For all other Leicester walks, please contact Leicester City Council direct.