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Walking Britain - Comprehensive site featuring walks, photos and other information for walkers and hikers in the British Isles.
Walking the Way to Health - An initiative of the British Heart Foundation and the Countryside Agency to persuade more people to take up walking. Includes objectives, advice and related resources .
Walkingworld - The UK site with a database of walks from all round the country - complete with Ordnance Survey maps.
Chasetrek Home - 2 day annual team competition for younger people. Also contains a map and compass tutorial
The Relative Hills of Britain - Internet Book - How many hills are there in Britain? Has anyone climbed them all? Answers to these and other questions.
Muddy Boots: Roaming the Welsh Marshes - Walking and rambling in the Welsh hills and the border areas known as the Welsh Marches. Also in Herefordshire, Powys, Radnoshire.
Camping and Tramping ... in England and Wales - Campsites, walks, pubs and good food in the mountains of England and Wales
Peak Bagging Page - Names, heights and grid references of hills in the UK over 2000 feet. Richard Moss.
TACit Press - Online publisher of UK mountain tables and fables, and 'The Angry Corrie' fanzine.
GPS Walks - Contains information on gps walks with more than 80 routes which can be downloaded and used in conjunction with the Garmin PCX5 program .
The Hills of Great Britain and Ireland - Lists of more than 2600 hills and mountains in Great Britain and Ireland, using the database at the University of Liverpool.
The Peak Baggers List - Hills over 2000 ft. in the Lake District, Peak District, Pennines and the Welsh Hills. Includes Excel format download.
Routecards Resource - A database of walk routecards as used by scouts, ramblers and other walkers. Searchable by location and area .
Countrywalker - Walking guides, hiking, photographs and information on walking the Lake District and the Peak District.
The British Tourist Authority: Walking Britain - Guide to walking in Britain with routes, maps and advice.
Walkz.com - Walking information and guided UK walks. Easy rambles to mountain expeditions. Adventurous activities, abseils caving, and climbing. Outdoor training courses.
WalkLink.com - Resource site with a listing of walks in the uk, searchable by location and difficulty. Includes holidays, events, news and beginners advice.
Wild Camp - Backpacking, fellwalking and camping in the lake District and Snowdonia . Includes trip reports, photographs and related links.
Statistical Topics in Hillwalking - Articles and information of a statistical or scientific nature for hillwalkers. Includes the use of altimeters in height measurement and UK weather links.
go4awalk.com - A comprehensive collection of maps and descriptions of walks (in pdf format) searched using a series of interactive maps, directory of local accommodation plus hints and tips for walkers.
Sherwood Long Distance Walkers Association - Details of challenge and group walks in the East Midlands.
Hiking UK - Lancashire, Lakes, and Yorkshire walks, and links.
Hillwalking.org.uk - Links on climbing, mountaineering, hillwalking and related accommodation. Includes books and maps purchase facility.
GPS Waypoints - Grid reference resource for walkers and hikers.
OUTDOORSmagic - News, detailed gear reviews, features and links and much for walkers and climbers.
GoWalking - The official site for the Pathfinder Walking Guides.
Fell Walking for Pensioners - Mainly based on the lake district fells.
North Yorkshire Long Distance Walking Assoc - Includes programme, information and contact details.
Combe Walks - Self guided circular walks in North Devon, Exmoor and Tarka Country.
Fellwalker - UK walk descriptions, plus shareware database of the British hills and mountains. Also contains information on books and landscape photography.
The Institute of Public Rights of Way Officers - A professional body which represents over 300 individuals who are involved in the management of public rights of way in England, Wales and Scotland principally as local government officers.
Three Peaks 24hr Challenge - A slightly different walking challenge
Dangerous Walkers - The official magazine of the British Ministry of Defence Dangerous Walkers Association featuring several walkers and their expeditions.
WebRing: UK Walking - Sites with content of interest to walkers and hikers from the UK or traveling to the UK.
Three Peaks Challenge Guide - Routes and simple maps, advice, tips and forum. Links page.
The Mountains of England and Wales - OS grid references and downloadable GPS files for the 2000ft mountain summits of England and Wales, for hillwalkers and summit baggers.
Walks in Northern England - David Jones' guide to walks in the Yorkshire Dales and the Lake District, on long-distance paths, and in York city. Maps, pictures and route descriptions; also includes a photo gallery, and e-mail to add your own walks.
Crag Happy - One stop resource for those interested in walking, rambling or hiking in the UK.
Walking Pages - Descriptive walks in England and Wales.
British Footpaths - Devoted to a series of books on British footpaths, which have been written by Richard Hayward.
Inn Way - A series of walking guidebooks by Mark Reid that cover the Yorkshire Dales, Lake District, and Black Sheep Pubs. Long distance walks via traditional English country inns.
DEFRA - Public Access - Government sites offers the Conservation Walks register with details and maps for 1,000 walks in the UK. Includes information about educational access, the Countryside Stewardship Scheme and Environmentally Sensitive Areas (ESAs).
The Celtic Way - A 722 mile walking route that runs from west Wales to Stonehenge then Cornwall. Includes detailed route instructions.
The Antonine Way - A guide to walking and cycling the Antonine Wall. Information on sporting facilities, cycling, walking, tourist attractions, accommodation, Millennium Link Canals and the Falkirk Wheel.
The Saint Kenelm's Way - Long distance walk across Worcestershire and Gloucestershire, linking the two places most connected with the life of the ninth century Mercian Saint. Includes history of Saint Kenelm and detailed route instructions.
Discovery Travel - Provides walking and cycling holidays in a wide range of specially selected destinations for the independent traveller. Details of holidays.
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. -- Mark Twain "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Trust everybody, but cut the cards. -- Finley Peter Dunne Mistakes are the portals of discovery. -- James Joyce Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Walking Remember your dreams. -- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity. -- Winston Churchill "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Walking Criticism is prejudice made plausible. -- H. L. Mencken For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me. -- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Grove giveth and Gates taketh away. - Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with software demands Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Walking Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night. -- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you a hundre Walking It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. - George Bernard Shaw Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. -- Stephen Leacock Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. -- Arthur C. Clarke "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. -- Mark Russell Walking When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover, He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job. -- Anonymous My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Walking There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job. -- George Crane He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke. -- Terry Cohen Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Walking When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. -- Henry Miller blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) If a man does his best, what else is there? - General George S. Patton Walking "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. -- Booker T. Washington He who hesitates is a damned fool. - Mae West Walking Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. -- Epicurus "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. -- Jean de La Fontaine Walking Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. -- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. -- Joseph Addison Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. -- Jim Backus If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible. -- James McNeill Whistler The time is always right to do what is right. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Walking Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them. -- Richard Strauss, on conducting And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide. -- Chris Hubbock, who sh "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Walking An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever sea Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out. -- Michel de Montaigne The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Walking "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Hell is a half-filled auditorium. - Robert Frost My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Walking The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind. -- John Allston If you are going through hell, keep going. - Sir Winston Churchill A clever man commits no minor blunders. - Goethe A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee. -- Polish proverb Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw Walking Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning. -- Billie Holliday Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease. -- Colin Greene Walking blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order. -- Brian Pickrell I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car. -- Seen on a bumper sticker blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Walking Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. -- Samuel Butler Every calling is great when greatly pursued. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Walking Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach. -- Aldous Huxley Cliches should be avoided like the plague. -- Anon. Walking Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together. - Georg Lichtenberg In the end, everything is a gag. -- Charlie Chaplin blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Walking Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management. -- Senator Soaper "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. -- Simeon Strunsky Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. -- Paulo Freire When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Walking I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been. -- Wayne Gretzky The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Walking
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