Stone Ramblers have produced a new book of walks covering the villages around Stone. It is a high quality full colour publication, with the primary objective of promoting walking in the area for healthy recreation. Our aim is:-

To encourage healthy walking and exploration of the countryside around Stone.

To provide a wide range of walks to enable people with varying abilities and interests to enjoy walking at their own level.

To encourage progression to longer walks as confidence increases, perhaps making them personal or family challenges.

To encourage further exploration of the footpath network around Stone.

The book contains 20+ walks ranging from 1.4 to 36 miles (the Challenge walk). The walks are all divided up by waypoints which allow readers to join and leave walks at easily identifiable points.

Each walk starts from a village on a bus route and with a car parking place. Clear descriptions help the walker to enjoy the routes without the need for map reading skills. All the footpaths and bridleways used are public Rights of Way, mostly clearly waymarked.

All the walks are easy for any averagely fit person if taken at a leisurely pace, but we would class the longer walks as moderate requiring a little more fitness and the Challenge Walk as strenuous if it is done in 1 or 2 days.

The idea is to encourage a gradual build up of fitness and stamina, if you are unfit to begin with.

Lists are given of bus routes, refreshment stops and outdoor shops which may be useful and general advice given to walkers.

The contributors are all experienced members of the Ramblers Association. The Association seeks to help everyone to enjoy walking in the Countryside, to foster care and understanding of the countryside, to protect rights of way, to secure public access on foot to open country and to defend the natural beauty of the countryside.