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Process for Dealing with Requests

Process for Dealing with Requests, 9th January 2025 Guidance for members of the Committee The subject of the request should be: Walking related, preferably in the London region and of a significant length. There should only be a maximum of 4 requests granted each year outside of a formal Committee…

Founders Tree

The Founders Tree Learn about our origins in the depths of the 1990s.. By Rob Myers, Colin Saunders and Douglas Robinson   LDWA London Group History London was one of the last local groups to be formed. It wasn’t till 20 years after the formation of the LDWA that the idea was first mooted when…

Join Us

In order to join LDWA, please click on the link below: https://www.ldwa.org.uk/membership/join/enter_details_1.php?action=N

Extra information about the Caterham Cloudsplitter

1 June 2017:  Extra information about the Caterham Cloudsplitter walk Provided by Ken Fancett, 15 May 2017   Caterham Cloudsplitter   Details Date: Thursday 1st June 2017 Venue: Outside Caterham Railway Station Time:11:00 Distance: 18.9 miles Ascent: 1820 feet Leader: Ken Fancett The walk…

Minutes of 2020 AGM, 12 February 2020

The minutes of the LDWA London group's AGM for 2020 are available here

Minutes of 2019 AGM, 13 February 2019

Minutes of LDWA London Group Annual General Meeting 2019 18:30 Wednesday 13th February 2019 King and Queen pub, 1 Foley Street London W1W 6DL Chair: Peter Alymer Present: Pete Colley, Cathy Phillips, Jeff Golland, Gordon Parker, Julie Welch, Marie Heracleous, Keith Lane Gavin Fuller, Dave Williams,…

Guidance Notes for Social Walk Leaders- prepared by Lonica Vanclay

Notes for Walk Leaders prepared by Lonica Vanclay (former Walks Secretary) Lonica Vanclay is a long-standing walks leader for London LDWA.   She is a past Walks Secretary and one of our most experienced leaders. While she was Walks Secretary, she prepared notes for Walks Leaders and although the…

Minutes of 2017 AGM, 9 March 2017

Minutes of LDWA London Annual General Meeting 2017 Held Thursday 9 March, 2017 MINUTES OF LDWA LONDON GROUP AGM, 9 MARCH 2017 Present Keith Lane, Paul Tilley, Lonica Vanclay, Gordon Parker, Peter Aylmer (Chair), Ron Williamson, Marita Sanders, Dave Williams, Susanne Waldschmidt, Alan Knight, Paul…

2018 AGM 8th March 2018

AGM 2018 The minutes of the AGM have been published and you can access the document below 2018_AGM_minutes_.pdf LDWA London Group has a collection of maps generously donated by Peter Charlton. Click below for a list of those maps. maps_LDWAL18-19.pdf If you’d like to borrow any of them please…

Draft Home Page v1

  WELCOME to the website of LDWA LONDON         WELCOME to the website of LDWA LONDON   In addition to group day walks and summer evening walks London group organises the 26 mile Founders Challenge event in October and 28 mile Capital Challenge walk in May each year. We also have regular…

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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