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Borough Highway to Health Council is pleased to Rathmore Road support “Highway to Highway to Health is a simple Church Street Health” and hopes that it and innovative scheme which will benefit local people by aims to encourage people of Main Street Broad Road encouraging them to take steps along the road to all ages to walk for leisure Council Route A improved health and and good health. It uses Offices 3.30 km Showgrounds Backburn Park To / attractive pole signs at one fitness. Market Street Scroggy Road Highway kilometre intervals on an The Limavady Walk is established route. Roe To Health Valley Route B measured from a point on Greystone Road outside Hospital 2.82 km LIMAVADY Walking is one of the simplest, Length of the Leisure Centre. safest and most effective It proceeds in an forms of physical activity. LIMAVADY WALK anticlockwise direction to Every adult in Northern is 4.47 KM Broad Road, turns past should accumulate 30 minutes the Showgrounds and Irish Green Street (42-43 Mins) of physical activity on most days of through the town centre the week. has via Church Street, Main Street and Market Street, one of the highest rates of heart returning to Greystone disease and stroke in the western Greystone Road Road by Irish Green world. Taking regular exercise is Street. The Limavady one effective method of reducing Walk is 4.47 Kms long. the risk of cardiovascular disease. GreystoneRoe Road Valley To Limavady (42 - 43 minutes) Using Scroggy Road Leisure Centre To Garvagh People who have not been creates two shorter taking regular exercise should routes, Route A - 3.30 start slowly and gradually To Dungiven Kms (31 - 32 minutes) Glenshane and Route B - 2.82 Kms build up to 30 minutes per day. Length of Community DUNGIVEN WALK Development (26 - 27 minutes) It may be advisable to consult is 2.44 KM The Dungiven route is your doctor if you have any (23 - 24 Mins) 2.44 Kms long (23 - 24 history of cardiovascular disease Ballyquin RoadStation Road minutes) and is measured in the family or if you are from outside the factory overweight. It is important in To L' Garvagh Road on the Ballyquin Road. It these instances that you begin goes via Main Street and with gentle exercise, moving to Garvagh Road, turning a brisker pace in time. Main Street left just before Derryware Bridge and back on to Ballyquin Road. If you would like further advice please contact our Advice Line : Km Marker All the walks can be 0845 769 7299 : Walk started at any point and (Mon. to Fri. 9 am to 1 pm). Calls walked in either direction. are charged at local rates. : Other Routes Dungiven Castle To Let’s Go Andrew P Dougal Chief Executive, Walking... Northern Ireland Chest, Heart, Stroke Association L I M A V A D Y B O R O U G H C O U N C I L