Smarter Travel Walking Guide
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This is your guide to walks and walking Bruce Castle Distance, times, calories table Ramblers Lea Valley Walk groups around the paths, parks and open Bruce Castle opened as a museum in If you are planning a more ambitious walk This is an 18 mile (29 km) walk along the spaces in Haringey, to help you get active Park/ Lap Lap time Calories 1906 and now houses history collections then the Rambler’s website is a great Lee Valley that follows the Lee Navigation all year round. Recreaction distance minutes burnt per relating to the Borough of Haringey. Park ground metres lap resource and has a useful walks finder to towpath from Waltham Abbey through Walking is the easiest and cheapest way visitors can follow the Tree Trail and the help you plan further afield. Haringey to Limehouse Basin. Albert 625 6.5 39 to exercise. It saves you money and helps park is part of the Better Haringey Road Visit www.ramblers.org.uk/walksfinder For more guides and maps visit the environment too. Walking for just Walking Trail. www.walklondon.org.uk 30 minutes a day helps keep your heart Bruce 750 7.5 51 Smarter Travel For more details call 020 8808 8772 healthy and strengthens muscles. Castle Walking trails or visit www.haringey.gov.uk/ greenways Walking Guide Haringey benefits from sixteen parks with brucecastlemuseum Chestnuts 680 7 42 Better Haringey walking trail- These are safe routes running through green flag status, the benchmark gold Downhills 965 10 60 free walking guide parks, forests, waterways, and quiet standard for parks and green spaces in Walk yourself fi tter Down Lane 850 8 48 The Better Haringey Trail is a 12-mile residential streets. Greenways in Haringey the UK. borough-wide circular walk, joining places run from Finsbury Park to Tottenham Taking a frequent walk is one of the most Finsbury 2230 21 126 of interest and environmental importance. Marshes and Finsbury Park to Alexandra effective ways of improving your health. Healthy walks Lordship 1200 12 72 It gives residents and visitors a great Palace. See map overleaf for details. If 30 minutes exercise at one time is Markfield 700 7 42 opportunity to enjoy walking and to Walk your way to health Moselle River Walk inconvenient, shorter bouts of 10-15 Priory 500 5 30 explore different areas of Haringey. Walks are led by trained volunteers and minutes exercise spread over the day can This is a seven and a half mile walk along Visit are a great way to meet new people and be just as good. the course of the Moselle, Haringey’s river, www.haringey.gov.uk/ discover your local neighbourhood. Walking resources flowing from the heights of Queens Wood Walking is virtually injury-free and has betterharingeytrail to download a free in the west to the river Lea at Tottenham. For more details call 020 8885 7307 or the lowest drop-out rate of any form Walkit.com walking guide. A detailed brochure is available at email [email protected] of exercise. A great online walk planning resource and www.haringeyfriendsofparks.org.uk. simple to use, Walkit.com lets you know Capital Ring Walk Pram Attack Walking a mile in 20 minutes is a 020 8489 5351 highly effective workout and burns how many calories you burn walking at The Haringey section of the Capital Ring New River Walk Designed for mums who want to keep slow, medium or fast pace. It even lets you Walk passes through Highgate down to www.haringey.gov.uk/haringeywalks approximately the same amount of The New River Action Group leads regular fit. Classes are held in Finsbury Park and know how much Co2 you are saving by not Finsbury Park and Manor House. energy as: walks along the New River. Caledonia Park. using a car. y Running a mile in 10 minutes A walking guide is available from Visit www.newriver.org.uk For more details contact Vicky on Visit www.Walkit.com www.walklondon.org.uk y Swimming breast stroke for 07903 272 934 or info@pramattack. Alexandra Palace 10 minutes co.uk or visit www.pramattack.co.uk Walk to School For nature trails, environmental walks and y Doing aerobics for 16 minutes Walk to School is a national campaign that walking maps visit Shqip Polski Pushy Mothers y Playing football for 12 minutes was launched in 1995 – to encourage all www.alexandrapalace.com and This is a pregnancy and post-natal fitness y Cycling for 16 minutes parents and children to make walking to www.friendsofalexandrapark.org initiative providing safe and effective school part of their daily routine. exercise for mums and mums to be in Haringey Parks What’s your target? Visit www.walktoschool.org local parks. No childcare worries - you To find out more about your local parks bring your baby in your buggy. 2 x 15 minutes Walk London or report a problem call 020 8489 1000, Franҫais Soomaali email [email protected] or visit Visit www.PushyMothers.com Build up gradually to regular 30 minutes There are lots of downloadable routes to www.haringey.gov.uk/greenspaces continuous walking by starting with two choose from at Walk London including the Historical Walks 15 minute walks a day, at least five days Lea Valley Walk. More details of walking events and groups a week. and downloadable walking maps are Find your walk at Highgate Society available at 3 x 30 minutes www.walklondon.org.uk The Highgate Society has published www.haringey.gov.uk/smartertravel Kurdî Kurmanci Türkҫe Walk continuously at a fast or fairly brisk several guided walks available on its Walk 4 Life website at www.highgatesociety.org.uk pace for 30 minutes at least three times a week. Find new routes, upload your own Tottenham Civic Society routes and record your progress on 10,000 steps a day this great online resource. You can also The Tottenham Civic Society organises The British Heart Foundation use the website to find out about your regular historic walks. The programme local walking groups and take a charity Please tell us if you would like a copy of this leaflet includes walks around conservation areas, recommends 10,000 steps a day for a in another language that is not listed above or in healthy heart. Use a pedometer to check challenge. any of the following formats, and send the form parks and housing estates, as well as visits to the Freepost address below. to various buildings of interest both new you are walking about four and a half miles Visit www.walk4life.info In large print On audio tape In Braille and old. a day (10,000 steps). In another language, please state: ........................ To find out more visit Name: ................................................................................ www.tottenhamcivicsociety.org.uk Tel: ...................................................................................... Address: ............................................................................. ..................................... Email: ............................................ Please return to: Freepost RLXS-XZGT-UGRJ, Haringey Council, Translation and Interpretation Services, 8th Floor, River Park House,225 High Road, London N22 8HQ Haringey Council offers this translating and interpreting service to Haringey residents. We can translate this document into one language per resident ONLY. This is printed on recycled paper Created by Creative Services 2799.142. 2016. Trails around Haringey Key Better Haringey Trail Capital Ring Walk N Lea Valley Walk WE Greenways Routes New River Walk S Moselle River Walk Sports Centres This map is reproduced from Ordnance Survey material with the permission of Ordnance Survey on behalf of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office © Crown copyright. Unauthorised reproduction infringes Crown copyright and may lead to prosecution or civil proceedings. LBH licence number 100019199 (2014)..