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English equivalent of Walkhighlands?

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 girlymonkey 16 Mar 2022

Is there something like Walkhighlands down south? A friend just moved to London and is looking for resources.

Thanks!

 DaveHK 16 Mar 2022
In reply to girlymonkey:

It's not the same thing but The Walking Englishman has some really good stuff.

https://www.walkingenglishman.com/

OP girlymonkey 16 Mar 2022
In reply to DaveHK:

Super, thanks!

In reply to girlymonkey:

At the risk of stating the obvious, er, https://www.ukhillwalking.com

Loads of summits, reports, ticklists, walks, all over the country.

Alan

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In reply to girlymonkey:

Further to Alan's suggestion, our Route Cards are a similar resource to Walkhighlands:

https://www.ukhillwalking.com/logbook/r/find.php

Of course being all about Hillwalking we tend to concentrate on bigger hills rather than having the detailed area coverage of shorter low-level local walks that WH offer. The low-relief geography tends to rule out much route info in the Southeast anyway, along with the fact that none of the team are based near London. However we do have a few Dorset and Devon routes in the database that would be accessible on a weekend, and we'll gradually add others.

As an ex-Londoner all too familiar with the challenges of getting anything much done from the Metropolis I did once write a hillwalker's survival guide to the capital, which is probably now a bit dated in places but may still prove some use:

https://www.ukhillwalking.com/articles/features/hillwalking_for_londoners_-... 

In terms of other resources, it looks like Pocket Mountains do a couple of guidebooks to places accessible from London - and they tent to concentrate on shorter, easier country walks of the sort that WH also have a lot of. I've no doubt Cicerone will have decent walk guides to Kent and the Chilterns etc too


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