- Get fit and stay fit
- Live longer
- Get stronger
- Feel better
- Control your weight
- Improve your general health
- Make new friends
FYLDE COAST RAMBLERS
"a brilliant walking club"
- WALKS OF THREE GRADES
- LED WALKS
- WALKS EVERY WEEK
- TRANSPORT BY COACH
- TRANSPORT BY CARS
- SOCIAL EVENTS
- WEEKENDS AWAY
Welcome to the Official Website of the Fylde Coast Ramblers
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We are based on the Fylde Coast in Lancashire. With coach collection points in Lytham St.Annes, Blackpool, Cleveleys, Thornton Cleveleys and Poulton le Fylde. Popular destinations can be the Lake District, Yorkshire Dales, Derbyshire's Peak District and Lancashire.
All walks have experienced leaders and are graded to suit different levels of fitness
Are you interested in friendship through walking?
Do you want to get fit?
Then take a look at what we do, and how you can join us. [more]
Previously known as The Fylde CHA/HF Rambling and FellWalking Club.
Fylde Coast Ramblers is affiliated to the Ramblers Association.
Affiliation number is 591570
Latest News
Try this walk around Scorton
Fylde Coast Ramblers features in a Lancashire Evening Gazette newspaper pull-out supplement entitled "Fylde and Wyre Rural Life - Autumn 2005". This shows a favourite walk around Scorton, Lancashire. It is has a detailed map and description, and is made available here for all to try out.
Menorca Walking Guides
Two members of Fylde Coast Ramblers have had a love affair with the island of Menorca for some time. Each year Vivien and Jeff Hopcroft have been busy exploring new and old routes, preparing maps and walk descriptions. Gradually three "pocket sized" walks guides have been published.
[Click here] or [click here] for guides containing maps, holiday walks, routes and walk descriptions for the Spanish Island of Menorca.
Please also note that Vivien and Jeff have almost completed a brand new walk book, in similar style, which describes about a dozen of the best walks around the coastline of the beautiful island of Menorca. This will be available from early Summer 2006. "Watch this space".
Eunice McGuire is starting a new life in the USA. [Click here] for more details.
Alfred Wainwright is an important influence in the minds of all those who seek to escape to the Lake District hills or take on the Coast to Coast walk. His handwritten, minutely illustrated Pictorial Guides are a modern classic. Many of the walks the Fylde Coast Ramblers go on are in these wonderful guides. At the moment Fred Talbot takes us on some Wainright Walks on ITV1.
To learn more here is a good starting point (www.wainwright.org.uk).
Cyril Brown's Scrapbook (NEW FEATURE) - well worth a look!)
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Cyril Brown has been an active member of the club for many years. During that time he has built up an interesting collection of newspaper cuttings and photographs. A chance remark during a recent walk caused me to wonder if these old documents would be of interest to visitors of the website and club members.
So [click here] or [click here] to look at a selection of club history taken from Cyril's scrapbook.
Photos from Doreen and Derek Hill
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Doreen and Derek have found some forgotten photographs taken on CHA/HF holidays and walks. They are published here so that our members can have a trip down "memory lane".
So [click here] to look these photographs.
HEALTH MATTERS
Walking is the most natural form of movement, and an excellent all-round mode of exercise. Yet as a nation we are walking less and less. Walking can help you to:
* Improve your general health
* Get fit and stay fit
* Control your weight
* Live longer!
Walking helps protect the body from many illnesses and conditions: heart disease and stroke, high blood pressure, osteoarthritis, obesity, depression, some types of diabetes and colon cancer.
Health experts agree that 30 minutes brisk walking on most days of the week is sufficient to improve fitness. However like a lot of things in life that we are supposed to do, daily exercise can become a chore. A much more enjoyable way is to join us every weekend and walk in the beautiful countryside, with good company.
All you need is some sensible clothing/footwear and the price of the coach fare.
This gradual start to walking can help people who feel they are not active enough to change their day to day habits through the simple activity of walking more.
If your main aim is to lose weight, you need to use more calories through physical activity than you take in as food. This means doing as much as possible: short walks, longer walks, climbing stairs – every bit of physical activity counts toward the total number of calories burned off.
If you recovering from an illness/operation and your main aim is to increase your fitness, it is important to gradually increase the intensity of your exercise. This can be achieved by coming on a short walk or part of the C walk. Then as you improve your level of fitness you can take on a B walk and eventually an A walk. For most people, walking is a safe and effective form of exercise. However, if you have any concerns or are at all worried about your health, discuss this with your doctor.
Changing lifelong habits requires determination and courage. We can make it much easier for the next generation by introducing them to walking early in life. Families and children are most welcome.
Hope to see you on the walks.
