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

Volunteers are crucial  to  the continuing  success of  Essex and Herts LDWA, whether they  be leading social walks, marshalling on our challenge events or the annual  LDWA 100,  or being  part of our Committee. All these roles are a vital part of our group and we recognise that anyone…

Committee meetings & AGM

2026Committee meetingsCommittee meeting 12/02/2026 Notes Committee meeting 09/06/2026 Notes AGM 2026Draft Minutes of the 22 February 2026 Essex & Herts LDWA Group AGM Minutes Agenda for 2026 AGM 22 February 2026 Draft Agenda v3 Chair's Report Report Secretaries Report Report Audited Year Ending 31…

Essex & Herts Triple Challenge

Essex & Herts Triple Challenge     Complete any three Essex and Herts Challenge events (any distance) over a two year period to qualify for an Essex and Herts Triple Challenge certificate.    Current qualifying events:   Stansted Stagger - January 2025  Herts Hobble - June 2025 Golden 50 -…

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…

Dogs on Walks

Dogs on Walks    Dogs may be allowed on Essex and Herts social walks at the walk leader’s discretion. Owners must keep dogs under close control and on a lead wherever livestock are present or likely,  and  they must confirm verbally they have pet owner’s liability insurance. Please…

Constitution

The Essex and Herts Constitution was approved at  the 2024 Annual General Meeting Essex and Herts LDWA Constitution At a Zoom call on 4 December 2025 amendments to the Constitution were discussed and their adoption proposed and seconded and unanimously agreed by all on the call. Essex and Herts…

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)

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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