Past Events: 

•   Heritage Open Days   6-15 September 2024

  Many of our towns/villages  take part in this each year  (there are a few highlighted below) .   The 2024 theme for England ,  History of routes, networks and communications, was ideal for Walkers are Welcome. R=These are some of the towns that took part:

  • • Corsham (4 walks including a Box Heritage Walk )

      • To find them all search for Corsham  on the HOD’s search page.

    • Dereham ( A walk around the town –  Dereham routes)

    • Evesham -Not registered on HODs, but in the period and on the theme
      • 2  walks reenacting historical journeys,  see details here 

    • Kirkby Stephen (3 events including a walk incorporating  the Belah viaduct and packhorse roads)

      • To find them all search for Kirkby Stephen on the HOD’s search page.

    • Wellington (11 events including Longdon on Tern Aqueduct walk ). 

      • To find them all look here or search for Telford + 5 miles on the HOD’s search page

  • In  Scotland and Wales  these events  were  called Open Doors and are also in September. 

• June 2024   Slow Ways Waycheck

• May 2024- Celebrate your local waymarked path during  National Walking Month

• Heritage Open Days,  September 2023
  
  • The theme for the 2023 event was based around the history of creativity and the arts encompassing topics such as literature, art, music, and drama. Many of our towns took part.  See also the Autumn 2023 edition of Way this Way 
• Great Slow Ways Summer Waycheck,  June 16th to 25th 
• Keep Britain Tidy’s Great British Spring Clean, 7th March to 2nd April 2023
• Countryfile Ramble / Children in Need,  October 2022
  •  Their  preferred dates were ” the first week in October”, but events could be on  any date , We believe a least 3  towns (2 of those below plus Market Weighton)  took  part in the Countryfile Ramble with another supporting their local radio station . 

    Henley-on-Thames	Bingley	Wellington
    October 2nd	October 9th	November 12th
    A choice of 4 walks from 2.3 to 8.6 miles,  including one suitable for mobility scooters.	3 mile walk as above, They were very pleased with how it went and raised £333.  Photos here .	Wellington Welly Walk A short 45-minute walk, for Children in Need’ in conjunction with Paul Shuttleworth of BBC Radio Shropshire.  It was   a  circular walk from outside Dothill Primary School, with both a short cut option and the chance to do a longer walk too.   They  raised £217.59  on the day with more online.  Pudsey Bear was there. Photos here

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• Heritage Open Days,  September 2022
  
  • The theme for the 2022 event, running from September 9th to 18th ,  was Astounding Inventions.   The full list of  events can be seen here.
  • We have been told about  7 events being organised by WaW towns:
• Celebrating our heritage – Autumn 2021 All our towns and villages have something to celebrate.  for England, the dates  for Heritage Open Days were 10th to 19th September and the theme was Edible England , see https://www.heritageopendays.org.uk/organising/edible-england  but towns or villages were free to choose another aspect.
  • Some of our members’ events:

    Bus Walk and Vineyard Visit Wellington  September 14, 2021

    Historical Pub Crawl Kirkby Stephen September 16, 2021

    St Ives Heritage Walk Bingley September 19, 2021

• National tree week 2020   The Tree Council’s National Tree Week ran  from 28th November to 6th December. We encouraged those of our member towns and villages, who were currently holding small group walks for the benefit of their local community, to hold a woodland walk  during National Tree Walk to  celebrate the work of The Tree Council. These walks were listed on our events page    Other activities were welcome too,  e.g. publicising  self-guided walks in woodland or just publishing a news item about a special local tree. 

  Kirkby Stephen  3rd December	Wellington  6th December	Whitchurch Hampshire
  Otley	Middleton-in-Teesdale	Bingley

• The lock down lifting event 2020  as towns gradually restart their activities in line with government guidelines we  encouraged towns to publish a news item about their  first event on our news page. By the second week  of July 2020  there were 6 events there, including one committee meeting.
•  The  first event  was to be held in March 2020 would have been the Walkers are Welcome National Litter-Pick    Unfortunately this event had to be cancelled due to the Coronavirus advice.