Walking Links

Weather

• Met Office rainfall animation and weather for "Central Southern England" and the South East
• BBC's Tide Timetables for the South Coast.
• Rain Today - Rainfall Animation

Trains (and tubes and buses)

• UK rail timetable (includes ticket prices)
• Transport for London (includes delays and a pretty journey planner)
• Rail Maps : "London & the South East" and "London Connections" (As the URL's keep changing, start with the National Rail website, and follow the link to Maps).
• SWT (trains from Waterloo) : real time information and weekend engineering work.
• Live train departure information for Waterloo, Hersham, and Victoria.
• Public Transport Timetables (includes buses) : South East, (national site).

Walking

• The relative hills ("Marilyns") of the South East
• Streetmap.co.uk - 1:25,000 Ordnance Survey maps of the entire country
• Circone publish loads of walking books, including the Tour de Mt Blanc, GR5, the Coast to Coast, St James' Way (the pilgrims way to Santiago), ...
• HF Walking Holidays : here and abroad ... they have affiliated local walking groups.
• Walking links from Manchester and Lancester Universities.
• The Open Directory's general hiking and UK walking links.
• Walking Routes a website of links.
• Alternative Gomera : a guide to a week's walk around Gomera, near Tenerife. Perfect for a winter getaway. Published by the Nichola Albery Foundation.

Walking Gear

• Cotswold Camping
• Field and Trek
• Banana Guard stop bananas getting squashed in your rucksac.
• On the high street: Blacks, Millets

Sites maintained by Walkers

• Andrew Murphy - Perl & Web Developer
• Catherine Ames - Landscape Photographer. Photos from some of the walks.

Other London Based Walking Clubs

Groups that Walk in the Southeast

• Central London Outdoors Group (also weekend trips)
• Long Distance Walkers Association: London and Thames Valley branches
• The Ramblers Association has many local walking groups in and around London & the Home Counties. Some of the groups are for younger walkers (20's-30's), but most seem to be for less young walkers. The Central London ones tend to be public transport based, the outer London/home counties ones car based (sometimes with car sharing).
• Outsiders Walking Club : A London based club that does day walks and some weekends away, and helped walk-check book 2.
• Surrey Walking Club: Longer walks (including 100 mile walks!) and race walking

Groups who organise weekend trips to the National Parks.

• Rockhoppers
• Ibex Mountaineering Club
• London Mountaineering Club
• Marylebone Mountaineering Club
• Southern Trekking and Mountaineering Club
• Gentian Mountaineering Club

Walking Groups for people with a common interest other than walking.

• Singles Outdoors Club - Naturist Walks : The SOC organise naturist walks in the southeast. Apparantly, couples welcome despite the name.
• Philosophy for All : Philisophical walks?
• St Francis Ramblers : A Catholic Rambling Club affiliated to Westminster Cathedral.
• Hiking Dykes
• Red Rope (London Branch - walks in the southeast). The club is socialist in the sense that membership rates and trip costs are based on ability to pay, and aims to be non-sexist, non-racist and actively supportive to child-carers... There is no requirement to belong to a political party
• The Alpine Club For Alpine climbers only, rather than walkers, but seeing as how I made the effort to look at its website...

Other places to look.

• Google
• The classified sections of walking magazines, e.g. Trail, TGO, Country Walking, etc.
• The Open Directory's London walking page, which lists us, and several other London based walking (and mountaineering) clubs. There are many other directory pages to try, e.g. the Southeast walking page

Last Update: Feb-08 by Andrew