Winter walks guide (From Ledbury Reporter)

Winter walks guide

8:50am Friday 25th December 2009

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THIS Christmas the West Midlands will host over 60 seasonal strolls as part of Britain’s biggest walking fiesta; the Ramblers Festival of Winter Walks with Nature Valley.

This year the festival will run from Boxing Day until January 3 with over 700 walks taking place across Britain that are fun, free, open to all, and for the vast part family-friendly.

There are many walks taking place in Malvern and the Worcestershire area. ‘Madhatters on the Malverns’ begins outside the shelter at Wyche Cutting for a five-mile morning walk over the top, and then back to the Wyche Inn to toast the outgoing and the incoming year. This is to take place on New Years Eve at 10am.

There is a shorter, four mile walk beginning at British Camp, for a Sunday stroll followed by lunch at a nearby hostelry. Easy paced walk on the Malvern Hills with plenty of view stops, taking place on January 3 at 10am.

Slightly further a field is the six mile Festival of Winter Walking which begins at the Coppertops Pub/Restaurant in Oldbury Road,Worcester at 9.45am for a morning walk to the Broadheath area on December 28.

As the walks are being sponsored by Nature Valley, their snack bars will be handed round on most walks.

The festival, which began 21 years ago, has achieved great success and is expected to tempt more than 17, 000 people to go walking in Britain’s winter wonderland.

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