General/Admin

Essex and Herts Merchandise

     Essex and Herts Merchandise Thank you for visiting the Essex & Herts LDWA merchandise page where you will find a link to our current range of club kit. Our club colour is bottle green and we have displayed a couple of photographs of group members wearing a selection of our current range -…

Expenses

  Guidelines for expenses claims Expenses Claim Form (Word) Expenses Claim Form (PDF)    

Committee meetings & AGM

2024 Committee meeting 15/01/2024    Notes    Financial Report Committee meeting 15/03/2024    Notes AGM 2024  Draft Minutes of the 49th Annual General Meeting of the Essex and Herts LDWA Appendix 1 Reports Appendix 2 2023 Accounts  2023 Committee meetings Committee meeting 09/03/2023  Notes …

Essex & Herts Triple Challenge

Essex & Herts Triple Challenge -  relaunched for 2024      Complete any three Essex and Herts Challenge events over a two year period to qualify for an Essex and Herts Triple Challenge certificate.    Current qualifying events:   Stansted Stagger - January 2024 Essex Walker - April 2024 Herts…

Car Parking - information for walk leaders

       Where should my walk start?    Traditionally, social walk leaders have tried to run walks from a spot where there is free car parking. With many councils and parks now introducing charges and with increased parking restrictions on public roads, it is becoming harder to find somewhere to park…

Dogs on Walks

Dogs on Walks    Dogs are allowed on  Essex and Herts social walks at the discretion of the  walk leader or organiser. Please check with the walk  leader before  bringing your dog on a  walk, and you must confirm verbally that  your dog is covered by your own liability insurance      The…

Constitution

Essex and Herts LDWA Constitution

Membership & Social Walk Statistics

Poppy Whiteside, the LDWA Data Analyst, will be producing  a twice yearly snapshot  of  data for  membership and social and challenge walks for both local  LDWA groups and the national LDWA.. .The date is derived from two sources: (1) Membership data - this is taken from the  SiEntries membership…

Early Days of Essex-Herts LDWA Group

The first AGM of the LDWA took place in 1973 following the publication of a newsletter devoted to long distance walking which was first published in 1971. There were three current EH members at the first AGM. In 1974 Frank Duerden contacted LDWA members in Essex Herts area & subsequently the first…

The Walking Partnership

The_Walking_Partnership.pdf Ramblers Walking Holidays (ramblersholidays.co.uk)

Local Walks

Walking the Boundaries          From Essex and Herts member Gavin Adlington:  I am churchwarden at St Michaels Church, Galleywood and on 1st October we are celebrating our 150th anniversary since the church was dedicated. The Bishop of Chelmsford will be attending the service and dedicating a large…

Future Walks

Future Walks

Click here to be taken to the upcoming social walk programme for this Local Group.

Past Walks

Past walks

click here to be taken to an interactive database containing details of all the social walks this Local Group has organised since January 2008

Local Group News

Long Distance Paths

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National LDWA

National LDWA

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LDWA Walks

The LDWA organises many challenge events and local group social walks, as well as listing many more organised by other organisations. Challenge events are normally between 20 and 100 miles and must generally be completed within a defined time limit. Social walks are normally led walks of around 20 miles.

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Challenge Events

Social Walks

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