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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 the Active Lifestyle Development team using the details below.

Or click on the related documents/attachments listed below and download the Guided Walks brochure for 2010.

Please note: The walk on 19th August 2010 from Charnwood Water relates to a walk to learn about bats.

Sponsored Walks

On Saturday 9th October there will be a Christian Aid sponsored walk around the 100 miles of the Leicestershire Round footpath, in one day. The walk has been split into 15 sections and we are inviting walkers to take part by being sponsored to walk one or more of the routes. The walks vary in length from the 6 miles to 9.5miles. There will be churches en route which will be open as rest stops for walkers, and each walk will begin and end at a church, which will provide refreshments and toilets (where facilities are available) for walkers. The route is well-trodden and should be ideal for a family outing or a youth group event. For further details please see www.christianaid.org.uk/walks or email walks@christian-aid.org.

Voluntary Action Leicestershire are working on another sponsored event, called Walking To The Moon. For further details, please see http://www.valonline.org.uk/walk-to-the-moon

WALKING FESTIVALS

Charnwood Borough Council are putting on extra walks for the Leicestershire Walking Festival which runs from 4-12 September 2010 and was also a partner with the National Forest Walk Festival which ran from 22 May to 2 June 2010. Our walks include the following extra walk, which is not included within our brochure:

4th September Garendon Health Walk, starting at 10am at Loughborough Leisure Centre - a 4 mile walk taking in Thorpe Acre and Garendon

A leaflet on the Leicestershire Walking Festival is available from Leicestershire County Council, but further information can be obtained by contacting Leisure Services on 01509 634594 and mentioning Leicestershire Walking Festival.

Other long walks being put on as part of the Leicestershire Walking Festival which take place in the borough, and which are not run by Charnwood Borough Council and are therefore also not in our current brochure, are:

Historic Parklands linking Charnwood and Leicester - meeting at Anstey Library, Paper Mill Close, Anstey at 10am on 4th September - 9.5 mile walk to include Bradgate Park, castle Hill Country Park at Beaumont Leys, Rothley and the Charnwood hills. Further details from Stepping Stones Project on 0116 305 7221 daytime only.

A Grand Day Out on our own Doorstep - Meeting at Britannia Street car park, next to St Wilfred's school, Shepshed at 10am on 4th September, this is a 12 mile walk organised by Coalville Ramblers which will cover the rolling hills of Charnwood and NW Leicestershire. The route is Shepshed, Dishley, Hathern, Zouch, River Soar at Kegworth (pub stop likely), Long Whatton, Piper Wood and Shepshed. For further information, please contact Coalville Ramblers on 01530 833334 - ansaphone.

A linear walk from Ratcliffe on the Wreake to Gaddesby meeting at 10.15am on 11th September outside the village hall, Main Street, Ratcliffe On The Wreake organised by Coalville Ramblers. This walk will include a pub stop either en route or at the end. For further details please ring 01530 831417 - ansaphone.

Details of the National Forest Walks Festival can be obtained from the National Forest organisation's website www.thenationalforestwalkingfestival.org.uk

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.

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

STOP PRESS

Following a successful walk earlier in 2010 with the Great Central Railway, a further walk is being put on from Rothley Great Central Railway on 4th September leaving the station by train around 10am travelling to Leicester North (Birstall).

The walk will go to Watermead, through to Cossington and Mountsorrel, at which point in time those wishing to have a shorter walk will follow a direct route back to Rothley, making a minimum 5 mile walk. The remainder of the group can opt to take the longer route, making a walk of about 9 or 10 miles in total. Further details to be published nearer the date! We can however state that the train cost is only £5, which is being generously discounted for us by Great Central Railway.

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

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FAMILY WALKS IN & AROUND CHARNWOOD

Other walks available

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

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

Please also see

http://www.loughboroughcharamblers.co.uk/

Kegworth Ramblers offer walks and can be reached on 01509 673462.

Charnwood U3A offer walks as part of their individual interest groups. Please see details on http://www.charnwoodu3a.org.uk/

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

Leicestershire Footpaths Association also offer walks as part of their membership package. Details can be found on http://beehive.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/default.asp?WCI=SiteHome&ID=15690&PageID=101058

Hinckley and Bosworth Council have various walk groups operating in the Groby, Hinckley, Market Bosworth and Barwell areas. Details of these weekly walks are available on http://www.whi.org.uk/walkfinder/region/East+Midlands/Lets+Walk+Hinckley+and+Bosworth/554.html

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.

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