Here is the full list of Dereks walks.

Half Day or Between Meal Walks

These short walks are across Essex. Click here for the full listing and here for an overview of the walks aross the county

Click the link next to the walk name to download details of the walk.

Wash to Channel Overview

The Wash to Channel Walk did not start and the beginning and continue through the middle until we got to the end. We were not even all the smae people every day.  The bulk of it was done as part of 4 week-long holidays; 1.2 in Norfolk plus 1 in Kent and 1 in Sussex.  The remainder were done as serial walks e.g. a Thursday here, a Wednesday there, wherever a hole appeared in the programme we filled it.  Most got into the Tendring  programme, but Colchester were more hestitant.  Some found out via Tendring members and came anyway.  We eere  persuing The Saint Edmund Walk a day a month moving northwards.  During one of the intervals we, Jessie and I, met Ron P of Thurrock Group at one of the Area Hundreds. “Were we likely to do the Peddars Way?” he asked.  He had walked from Beachey Head to Thetford, but his companions did not fancy a trot across Norfolk to Hunstanton.   He should not have thrown a gaunlet down in front of Jessie Keeble.  "We can do it” she mused, " After Brandon on the Saint Edmund Way."   So we did Peddars to help Ron, then took his advice hoofed it to Beachy Head too.

I have produced this 2018 record of it, because it was great fun a. finding the time to do it, and b. actually atending daily mobile socials whilst absorbing the Norfolk Landscape, The Brecklands, Thetford Forest, The Suffolk Bread & Beet Basket, several of the joys found along  Jonathon’s Journey in Essex, a cute flotation across the Thames plus two lots of four days traversing the South and North Downs plus The Weald, the medway valley and Ashdown Forest where Pooh Sticks were duly played.Back-up was by twenty-eight examples of Two-car trickery.

Events like these seem to be in short supply now.  I am sure modern ramblers will do this sort of adventure much better than we did, despite an increase in the price of petrol.  Kevn C serialised The Saffron Way approximately a Sunday a month till it was done, and Peter P did The Suffolk Way every other Wednesday from Flatford to Lowestoft.  Both were early this century I believe.  Has there been much since?   The Mucking Ugley Ways through Messing, Essex is a lot more than a joke; it visits some many examples of medieval settlement architecture.  Go with friends and have fun. 

Staple Day Walks

These full day walks are across Essex and Suffolk. Click here for an overview of the walks.

Click the link next to the walk name to download details of the walk.

Short and Slow Saunters

Here's a series of short and slow walks. All walks are between 3 and 4 kms. 

Bus Walks

Here's a series of walks that use the Bus to get the start and back from the finish. Click here for an overview of the walks, here for a list of the walks, here for a map of the walk locations, here for a breakdown of the walk distances and here for a list of abbreviations used.

Two Car Trickery

Here's a series of walks that use a Two Car Trick to get the start and back from the finish. Click here for a Scatter Map of the walks, here for a table of the walks, here for an overview of the walks and here for a list of abbreviations used.

Health Walks

Railway Walks

Here's a series of walks that uses a train as part of the walk. Click here for a Scatter Map of the walks, here for a table of the walks, here for an overview of the walks and here for the leaflet cover.

Derek has also provided details of another 18 walks in Essex. Click here  to download the pdf file.

Here are some additional ideas for more long distance walks..

Circular walks around the counties of the South East and East Anglia. Click here  to download the walk descriptions and here to download outline maps

Additional Long Distance Walks

Lasso is a 737km trail counter clockwise around the Essex border from Southend Pier, in the form of 17 marathon sections.

Medieval Mingle is a 200km trail through medieval settlements from Mucking, through Messing on to Ugley, returning via Matching to Thurrock

Cascade is a series of walks across Essex - Chunky Camuplodunum, Thurstabble Redhills, Winstree Layer, Roman River Tribute, Puddly Mud Crawl, Tendring Hinterland Marathon, Hinckford Path Care, Chompsfod Butter Fit from Pleshey, Tour de Braintree District, Maldon's Twin Rounds, W H A M F L A B Extravaganza and Dodge around Dengie.

Corduroy Country Strides more walks across Essex - Jonathan's Journey 70 + miles from Leigh-on-Sea to Ipswich, Constable Beat 30 miles from Mistley to Sudbury, Maria Mehalah Macabre 24 miles from Polstead to East Mersea, Walking the Essex Zone 133 kms from Cornish Hall End to Point Clear, Brythnoth's Last Essex Visit 49 miles and West Tendring Marathon.

Green Corridor - Ipswich to Bromley By Bow and Canon's Canter to Bury a linear walk from Chelmsford to Clare