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Index of Walks Programmes

FAKENHAM 30 - 31 NORWICH 20 - 22

GREAT YARMOUTH 24 - 25 SHERINGHAM 12 - 13

HIKE NORFOLK 11 SHORT & LEISURELY 14

KING’S LYNN 4 - 9 SOUTHERN NORFOLK 28 - 29

LEG STRETCHERS 23 WENSUM 26 - 27

MID NORFOLK 18 - 19

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Norfolk Area Newsletter & Walks Programme

August - November 2013

RAMBLERS CENTRAL OFFICE

The address of the Ramblers’ Central Office is:

2nd Floor, Camelford House, 87—90 Albert Embankment, London SE1 7TW

Tel: 020 7339 8500, Fax: 020 7339 8501

The Norfolk Area, Ramblers’ Association, is part of The Ramblers’ Association, a registered charity

(number 1093577), and a company limited by guarantee (registration number 4458492)

http://www.norfolkra.org.uk/

AREA OFFICE: Our Area Secretary is Br ian Ansell, the address for area

correspondence is 44 The Street, Rockland St. Mary, Norwich, NR14 7AH. The phone

number is (01508) 538654 and the email address is [email protected]

Path Problems in Norfolk, where sure of your details, can be reported directly to: Rights of

Way Team, Planning & Transportation Dept, Norfolk County Council, County Hall,

Martineau Lane, Norwich, NR1 2SG. (Telephone: 0344 800 8020)

Where a member is unsure, or the problem is not clear, report the problem to Ian Mitchell, 5

Montcalm Road, Norwich, NR1 4HX. (Telephone: 01603 622539, email address:

[email protected]) Ian would also like to know anything directly reported to

the Rights of Way Team.

The Area News Editor: Richard May, 24 Swanton Avenue, Dereham, NR19 2HJ. Telephone

01362 851547, email address is [email protected]

All RA members are invited to take part in any walk in the Area programme. Non-members

are welcome to participate and are invited to join the RA if they so desire once they have

sampled the variety of walks on offer. New members can join or existing members can

update their details (change of group, change of name or address) by phoning Ramblers

Central Office in London on 020 7339 8500 . You can also join on the Ramblers website:

http://www.ramblers.org.uk

Dates for your diary:

The next deadline for copy for the newsletter is 19 October 2013. The deadline for copy for

the following newsletter will be 15 February 2014. The remaining Area Council meeting in

2013 will be 16th November at 10:00 at Honingham Village Hall.

The Ramblers’ Association Working for walkers

The Ramblers’ Norfolk Area

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England Coast Path

Natural England should, by the end of June, confirmed and published its

final report for the first section of the Coastal Path in Norfolk (Sea Palling to

Weybourne). Work is proceeding on the next section, Hopton on Sea to Sea

Palling. I am acting as the local contact in developing proposals to be put

by The Ramblers to Natural England, and for then responding to NE’s

initial plans. By the time this is published, I will have met (with Ian

Mitchell) with Natural England to discuss their and our initial thoughts,

and will be working on a draft of the report to be submitted on behalf of the

Ramblers. I will have walked along the whole section, but I do not have the

local knowledge held by members and others who live near or walk

regularly along that section of coast. I would welcome all suggestions

about where the coast path should run for the best enjoyment of

walkers. Please contact me via [email protected] or 01362

691455. Thank you.

Ken Hawkins

Ramblers path survey

We now have over 1000 survey reports covering over a third of all the

parishes in the county. Key features are

only a little over half of the paths meet all the legal requirements and

are easy or even possible to use

one third are not signed and/or not waymarked, making it

impossible for people to know where rights of way actually are

at the time they were surveyed, over a third presented difficulties

because the path had not been re-established over ploughed land or

through crops

more than one third of the identified difficulties were not reported to

the county council, suggesting that its own statistics should be

increased by half as much again to give a fair picture of the state of

the county’s paths

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We are still looking for more reports, so if you haven’t already ‘signed up’,

may I invite you to do so. All of the information is on the Norfolk RA

website at http://www.norfolkra.org.uk/Survey2012pg1.htm or I can send it

directly to you by email - contact me at [email protected] - or, if

you prefer (or need) hard copies, please phone me at 01362 691455.

Ken Hawkins

GPS for sale.

SATMAP ACTIVE 10. As new with cards for Norfolk, Coast to Coast and

The National Parks. Battery charger included. £150 Contact Sue Day 01328

701545 or mobile 07776466393.

Life on the Board

As many of you will know, this April I was elected as a member of the

Board of Trustees for Ramblers nationally. Therefore, I thought I’d give you

a mini report on my first few month’s experiences.

Apart from a brief meeting after the AGM, my first proper board meeting

was in May and took place in Cardiff. The other two new trustees and I

started off with a number of meetings with key Ramblers staff members,

and with the chairman of the board. It was at this point that I first started to

grasp the significant responsibility I had taken on.

Following this meeting all board members had a “Welsh Tea” and met with

representatives of partner organisations in Wales. The board meeting

proper was on the next day, during which I was allocated responsibilities

for IT and for membership numbers (the latter was a surprise!)

As well as this board meeting, I have had teleconferences with the Finance

& Operations and Mission subcommittees, and also one on young walkers

groups.

Richard May


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The following paragraph relates to all walks advertised in this guide:

All sporting and leisure activities have inherent hazards associated with them and

rambling is no exception. In spite of the safety of members always being the

paramount concern, accidents will occasionally occur. It is important, therefore,

that when entering into the activity, each member appreciates that they have a

responsibility to identify the hazards associated with the activity and take all

reasonable steps to eliminate or minimise the potential for an accident to arise.


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Hike Norfolk

Important Note: The table below is only a guide to our programme, the full programme

can be found at the address below. All walks are subject to change!

Date Details Start Length Leader

4th August Cromer & Felbrigg TBA 9.5 miles Jenny Nichols

11th August TBA TBA TBA Tim

17th August Night hike near Sizewell TBA 18 miles Julian White & Clive

18th August Reepham TBA 6 miles Rebecca Mills

24th August Acle TBA 4.5 miles Euan Griffiths

31st August TBA TBA TBA Adele

1st September TBA TBA TBA Clive Manwaring

7th September Great Yarmouth short walk and maritime festival

TBA TBA Hanna

8th September TBA TBA TBA Jenny Nichols

21st September Wroxham short evening walk, then Barton House railway

evening event

17:00 5 miles Hanna

22nd September TBA TBA TBA Julian

29th September TBA TBA TBA Tim

5th October TBA TBA TBA Adele

6th October Gressenhall TBA 8.5 miles Euan Griffiths

12th October Ludham TBA 6 miles Rosemary

13th October TBA TBA TBA Graham Finlayson

20th October TBA TBA TBA Tim

27th October TBA TBA TBA Clive Manwaring

2nd November TBA TBA TBA Adele

3rd November Thetford to Brandon Little Ouse TBA 9 miles Jennifer

24th November TBA TBA TBA Julian

More walks are expected to be added as time goes by, so check our forum for the latest walks

and social events!


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Group AGM. Wednesday 6th November 2013 – 7.30pm, Church House, Dereham.

Date for you diary. Group Christmas meal – Yaxham Mill – Saturday 7th December 2013. Full details at AGM or from Chris Gribble 01603-872709.


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Norfolk Ramblers’ : Walks Finder Calendar : August

August 2013

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun

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HKW 2 3

FK 4

GIKMNO

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K 8

HKSW 9

S 10

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HKW 16

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GKO 21

KO 22

HKW 23 O

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kKNOS 29 HKW

30 31 IKO

This calendar shows which groups are holding a walk on a particular date, walks are indicated by a capital letter in the appr

by a lower case letter. Please see the group’s listing for the specific details of the walk or event.

Key: F: Fakenham, G: Great Yarmouth, K: King’s Lynn, M: Mid Norfolk, N: Norwich, S: Sher ingham,

September 2013


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Norfolk Ramblers’ : Walks Finder Calendar : August - November 2013

This calendar shows which groups are holding a walk on a particular date, walks are indicated by a capital letter in the appropriate day’s box, whilst any other event by that group is indicated

by a lower case letter. Please see the group’s listing for the specific details of the walk or event.

: Sher ingham, O: Southern Norfolk, W: Wensum, L: Leg Stretcher s, H: Shor t Leisurely, I: Hike Norfolk

November 2013


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