Saturday Walkers' Club

SWC (Free) Walks

Devise A New Walk

See: walks in development

  • Anyone may devise a walk (i.e. you don't have to walk with the walking club).
  • If you walk with the club, have a word someone who's already done one, e.g. David, Sean, Marcus or Peter.
  • Have a look at the walk map for inspiration, for example, at the time of writing, there are few walks north east of London, and none in the New Forest.
  • Walks both shorter and longer than the ones we currently have are encouraged.

Guidelines

  1. New Walks should (i.e. not must) be public transport friendly. NB public transport includes buses as well as trains.
  2. New Walks should (i.e. not must) be suitable for a day trip from London, i.e. within the 'Network Railcard Area'
  3. Walks may be a map walk (an OS map is required to do the walk), or contain detailed walking instructions (no OS map required)
  4. Walks with detailed walking instructions:
    • must be walk checked by the group (or by at least 2 people other than yourself). You may wish to liaise with David (via the the club's email address on the 'contact us' page) about organising a club "walk check".
    • should be re-checked in the opposite season to which it was developed (e.g. write in summer, re-check in winter)
    • if possible should contain a sketch map of the route
  5. Walks may be submitted in HTML format using the template below (best), or MS Word, or PDF format - just email it in.
  6. You may retain ownership of the walk if you do not wish to donate it to the walking club, however, you must commit to maintain the walk as time goes by, or allow us to do so if you do not.

Walk Template

There are 2 HTML templates, walk_details (for the tabular text at the top of the page) and walk_instructions (for the list of walking instructions). Even if you submit a walk as a Word document, please try filling them in, at least the walk_details one.

walk_details

walk_instructions

  • Download the templates - If they displays as HTML (not as plain text), use "View - Source" in your web browser to get them.
  • Please fill in the gaps!
  • To test what you have done: File - Save As - "walk_details.html" or "walk_instructions.html" on your PC, and then use File - Open in your web browser to view it
  • To get an existing walk's file: replace index.shtml with walk_details.html or walk_instructions.html in the walk's web address e.g.
    • book 1, walk 7 is: http://www.walkingclub.org.uk/book_1/walk_07/walk_details.html
    • book 3 (swc walks), walk 12 is: http://www.walkingclub.org.uk/book_3/walk_12/walk_details.html
  • Edit this file in notepad (or similar, DO NOT not use MS Word)
  • walk_details - The rows are all optional, feel free to add new ones
  • Please do not include any HTML style or font tags - we use a 'CSS' style sheet

  • The "tags" are: i (italic) b (bold) li (list item - row in a list) p (paragraph) tr (table row) td (table data or table cell) th (table header cell)