Search for walks using OS Grid References

Using Maps | By National Park | By County | By Grid-Reference

Note For walks in Guernsey, Jersey, Isle of Man and Ireland please use Regional Lists of Walks and scroll down to Areas outside Mainland Britain.

Enter your grid reference (2 letters + 6 numbers).

Example - SH 989002

The search facility will then find the 20 nearest walks from that point.

Finding Walks

With more than 20,000 pages it can be a challenge to find what you want in the Walking Britain website. The search facilities are focused on finding walk descriptions and a number of alternatives are available.

Using Maps - the search facility enables you to select a village or town within Britain and find the walks within a given radius.

National Parks - you can search for walks to suit your ability in all the British National Parks.

Counties - similar to the search facility for National Parks you can filter walks of a selected difficulty from all the British Counties.

Grid Reference - If you are familiar with the OS grid reference system you can find the 20 nearest walks to a specified location.

Post Code - just enter a postcode and find the nearest 20 walks to your chosen location.

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