Programme of Walks
Walk Leaders -- please notify any changes to the Webmaster. Any last-minute changes will be shown on this page and as a Newsflash on the Home Page.
Please note change of leader for walk on 21 February - Martin Burnell will lead instead of Kevin Knight.
On most of our walks, unless it says otherwise in the programme, you should bring food and drink for lunch and snacks. If the leader has planned for the group to eat lunch in a pub this will be clearly stated in the programme.
We show in green italics some (most) of the challenge events organised by our neighbouring groups. See "Strider", the LDWA website or the local Group's website for further details.
We organise several Weekends Away during the year. This year we are planning trips to the Lake District in June, the Brecon Beacons in August and Exmoor in September - details below. You will find reports of most of our Wekends Away for the past few years in the Journal or the archives.
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| Sunday 14 | Cheeseham Circular - ca. 20ml | 0900 Chesham Station CP: GR SP960015 | Landranger 165 or Explorer 181 | Choice of pub lunch in Wendover or bring sandwiches. | 
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| Sunday 21 | 02noxO8002 - ca. 21ml | 0900 Bix Village Hall: GR SU728853 | Landranger 175 | Note £1 charge for CP |
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| Wednesday 24 | Summer is a'Comin - ca. 16ml | 0930 Watlington town (free) CP: GR SU691944 | Landranger 175 | Social walk in the Chilterns with pub lunch. |
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| Sunday 28 | Seven Starts Stroll - ca. 20ml | 0900 outside Seven Stars pub, Knowl Hill: GR SU821791 | Landranger 175 | Seven Stars is on A4 W of Maidenhead. Picnic lunch. |
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| Sunday 11 | Oxon 20 Marshals' Walk - ca. 20ml | 0900 Mill Lane CP, Henley-on-Thames: GR SU771817 | Explorer 171 | A social walk open to all. |
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| Saturday 17 | Oxon 40 Marshals' Walk - ca. 40ml | 0730 Mill Lane CP, Henley-on-Thames: GR SU771817 | Explorer 171 | Note 7.30 start. Walk at your own pace following route description, this is not a social walk. Bring food & drink, and a torch. There will hopefully be some support. |
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| Sunday 18 | Chipperfield and the Chess Valley - ca. 18ml | 0900 Chipperfield Common CP: GR TL045015 | Landranger 182 |
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| Sunday 25 | A Promenade from Pangbourne - ca. 22ml | 0900 Station Road CP, Pangbourne: GR SU634765 | Landranger 171 or Explorer 159 | CP is in front of Village Hall, NOT the station CP. Pay & display but free on Sundays. |
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| Saturday 1 | Oxon 40/20 Challenge Event | More information will be available towards the end of January. | |||
| Sunday 9 | Riverside Walk - ca. 20ml | 0900 Pangbourne village hall CP: GR SU634765 | Explorer 159 | Flat as a pancake! No dogs please. |
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| Sunday 16 | Working Woman’s Walking Weekend - ca. 20ml | 0900 Braywick CP, Maidenhead: GR SU892798 | Explorer 160 or Landranger 175 | CP is less than 10 min walk from Maidenhead station. At Braywick turn right and park in the RHS CP (free) accessed under height restriction barriers. Parking in numbered bays on LHS is likely to get you a parking ticket! Bring picnic lunch but there will be a short pub stop for drinks/snack. |
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| Sunday 23 | 6 January Revisited - ca. 16ml | 0900 Goring Sports Field (free parking): GR SU604804 | Landranger 175 | Walk to include Streatley Hill with choice of pub or picnic lunch. Possible tea stop at end. |
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| Sunday 30 | A View of the Thames from Everywhere - ca. 20ml | 0900 Hambleden Valley CP (not village CP): GR SU785854 | Landranger 171 |
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| Sunday 6 | A Mystery Meander - ca. 18ml | 0900 Wendover Library CP: GR SP868078 | Explorer 181 |
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| Sunday 13 | Ashridge and beyond - ca. 18ml | 0900 Ivinghoe Beacon car park: GR SP964159 | Explorer 181 | Last chance to practice before the Lake District |
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| Friday 18 - Monday 21 | Weekend Away - Lake District | See below | |||
| Sunday 20 | No longer David’s Mystery Walk - ca. 18ml | 0900 Wendover Library CP: GR SU868078 | Explorer 181 | Picnic or pub lunch. The walk heads west to Coombe Hill, south to Dunsmore, Little Hamden and Gt Hamden, then back east to Whiteleaf. |
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| Sunday 27 | If you like Ridges - ca. 20ml | 0900 Haydon Lane, East Ilsley (near village pond): GR SU494811 | Landranger 174 or Explorer 170 | Picnic or pub lunch. |
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| Sunday 4 | Independence Day Walk - ca. 17ml | 0900 Whiteleaf Hill CP: GR SP822036 | Hot dogs and pop at finish! |
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| Sunday 11 | Wipe Your Feet on the Mat - ca. 13ml followed by BBQ | 0900 Wendover Woods CP: GR SP897084 | Explorer 181 | No lunch stop but extra snack break. BBQ starts approx. 1430. See here for more info on parking and BBQ arrangements including cost (payment by donation). |
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| Sunday 18 | Fiona's Walk | 0900 Council Offices CP, The Burys, Godalming GU7 1HR: GR SU972440 | Car park is free. |
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| Sunday 25 | Walking with Martin from Amersham | 0900 Amersham Station (large CP nearby): GR SU964983 | Explorer 172 | Car park is free. |
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| Sunday 1 | Whitchurch or Thereabouts - ca. 20ml | 0900 Whitchurch - CP on B471 opp. St John the Baptist church: GR SU637789 |
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| Saturday 7 - Sunday 8 | Weekend Away - Brecon Beacons | See below | |||
| Sunday 15 | Winter Hill to Maidenhead Thicket via the River at Hurley - ca. 18ml | 0900 CP (free) adjacent Pinkneys Drive: GR SU855815 | Explorer 172 | Picnic lunch, probable pub stop. |
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| Sunday 22 | A Lot of Ups and Downs - ca. 20ml | 0900 Public CP, Watlington village centre: GR SU691944 | Explorer 171 | Village is 3 miles SW of Junction 6 on M40. Parking in public car park in town centre - charge unknown. The walk is around Watlington Hill via Skirmett and Fingest. |
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| Sunday 29 | A Prehistoric Perambulation - ca. 19ml | 0900 Lambourn CP (off High Street): GR SU323789 | Landranger 174 |
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| Friday 24 - Sunday 26 | Weekend Away - Exmoor | See below | |||
- Steve's Lakes Weekend
- A long weekend of strenuous hillwalking on the fells of the Western Lake District, based at Keswick. Please book your own accommodation.
- There will be three full-day walks, on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and a walk finishing by early afternoon on the Monday, to allow time to travel home afterwards. No walking programme will be published in advance, as the intention is to choose the route for each day’s walk on the day to take best advantage of the weather.
- Should the weather be good, walks will be up to c14 miles with up to c5000 feet of ascent, on rough ground. Several of the walks will not start at Keswick; a rendezvous point will be chosen in Keswick, where we can meet and drive to the actual starting point for the day’s walk. The meeting time each day will be 9 a.m. (Please make sure that your accommodation provides breakfast early enough for you to make this rendezvous.) All walks will have a picnic lunch stop.
- If you wish to come on this weekend, please contact Steve in advance for more details.
- Steve will be staying on in the Lakes for the London Group Lakes weekend led by Paul Lawrence which takes place the weekend after. He will be willing to lead walks for anyone who is interested on the intervening days, should anyone want to stay in the Lakes for longer than just the weekend.
- Steve Singleton:
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- Clive's Welsh Weekend
- Clive will be leading 2 days' walking in the Brecon Beacons on Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 August with possibly a half-day walk on Friday 6th.
- Numbers will be limited to a maximum of 12, so please contact Clive to register your interest as soon as possible.
- More details later (there will be an email alert and RSS news feed when the information is available). You should plan to find your own accommodation once the venue is decided.
- Clive's contact details: phone
- Duncan's Exmoor Weekend
- Duncan's weekend will be based in Lynton over the weekend Friday 24 - Sunday 26 September. Come for as many or as few days as you like and please make your own accommodation arrangements.
- The Friday walk will meet at 10am at County Gate Car Park (GR 795485) on the A39 Minehead - Lynton road. The Saturday and Sunday walks will start at Lynton Tourist Info Centre (GR 718495) at 9am.
- All walks will be about 15-16 miles, hilly (typically 3000ft ascent), with cream tea stops where available. There will be a mixture of coast walking, wooded valleys and moors.
- Contact Duncan: phone
