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A brief history of the Surrey Group*

Even as the LDWA was being formed, a number of challenge walks like the Tanners Marathon, were already taking place in Surrey. The first two LDWA walks – across Surrey - were both in the County. Interestingly, at the first official get-together of LDWA members in January 1973 at Tanners Hatch YH,…

Newsletter Archive

This archive contains PDF copies of past Surrey Group Newsletters. Under the editorship of Peter Waterhouse, the Newsletter was published 3 times a year. It contained walk reports, pictures and articles of interest to Surrey Group members. In recent years it became increasingly difficult to attract…

Past Officers

See a list of our past officers from the formation of the Group to the present day

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

click here to be taken to the latest news updates for this Local Group.

National LDWA

National LDWA

click here to be taken to the home page of the LDWA National website

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.

Click here to go to the LDWA website.

Challenge Events

Social Walks

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