Local Walks

Chris French, May 2020

These walks are a small selection from a set of “historic” walks, produced by a couple of U3A groups. The first was a Thames Valley group, Historic Pathways (HP), starting in 2013 and the second was a follow on for Wokingham U3A, Walks into History (starting in 2016). The historic aspect was because we are emphasising Places of Interest (POI) along the route. The walk creator then leads a group and points these out. The walks vary from very short, 2 miles, to 7 or 8 (with a pub stop half-way round!).

We created 22 walks during the 3 years of the HP project and another 25 (so far) in the WIH group (with many repeats).

For each walk there may be up to 4 items: a document describing the route and a corresponding numbered map, with key turn directions along the route and a document of the POI and a corresponding numbered map. Sometimes these may be combined, depending who devised the route. I designed all the maps. Where the route description is labelled “WW Route” this is because many were adapted (by me) to a layout such that they could be posted on the Walkingworld site, of which I am a member.

I’ve chosen the following walks, which are fairly near to Wokingham and don’t need public transport. Follow the links to walk details which include maps, route directions and places of interest (POI).