All Trails

All Trails is a site with walking and biking trails. It covers a wide area, but you can narrow it down by selecting a town and it gives walks/bike rides near by.

Bishop's Stortford and District Footpaths Association

Walks in and around Bishop's Stortford. With maps and instructions that can be downloaded and printed.
This society does a lot of work keeping foot paths open and also publishes booklets of local walks.

Essex Walks

It does what it says in the title. Walks, maps and photos covering all of Essex. I particularly liked the look of the coastal walks where I am less familiar.

Hertfordshire and North Middlesex Ramblers

This group have developed some walk routes in our area that are downloadable to a smart phone using Google maps. You can use your phone to guide you round the route. The phone needs to have its location switched on, but not the internet. You can download them at home for free. The site recommends printing the map at home and to take it with you. Should your phone run out of battery you can always revert to the paper map.

Slow Ways

This organisation was formed in the Covid lockdowns. It is trying to promote footpath routes between cities.

The Essex Way Backwards

This is a long distance walk across Essex. The walk should start at Epping but this one starts at at the coast in Harwich and heads to Epping Central Line Station. It is divided into 9 separate 8 to 12 mile bits.

The Hundred Parishes Society

What is the Hundred Parishes?
It is a large, attractive, gently-undulating area, around 450 square miles of northwest Essex, northeast Hertfordshire and southern Cambridgeshire that is largely unspoilt and is richly endowed with many fine examples of agricultural and built heritage. It has many walks in what I consider to be our area.

Walking Britain

This is a very large site with hundreds of walks. They are sorted by county, and would be useful if you wanted walks either locally or perhaps going on holiday and wanted to walk a new area.

Walking in England

This site has walks sorted by county and covers the whole country. It breaks the walks down by town and village, with some good ones in our local area.