This page contains a record of most of the walks we have done in the last 40-plus years. Click or tap on the Map button in any walk to see an Ordnance Survey map of the area, or choose the Satellite button for an aerial view. In each case, a marker (usually red) shows the meeting point for the walk.
The yellow matchstick figure at the bottom right of the Satellite view, when dragged on to the map, will highlight most roads in blue. Release the figure over any highlighted road, to show street level photography at that point.
Each walk in the table has a SatNav entry, which is normally a postcode, but you do have some options regarding the way SatNav entries are shown, and the coloured markers in the views produced by the Map or Satellite buttons. You can explore these choices, and learn more about the SatNav entry, in the Settings page.
When entering text in Quick Find or Advanced Find, you can search for a phrase such as 'bus pass', a complete word such as 'bridge', or just part of a word such as 'mouth' (which will find both Dartmouth and Teignmouth).
When you click or tap on All Walks, or when you search for walks, each walk in the archive must be either shown or hidden. Showing or hiding a handful of walks as the result of a search will happen almost instantly, but showing or hiding many or all of the walks (our archive contains over 9000 of them) will take longer. Be prepared for a delay of a few seconds, while your request is dealt with.
Walks with a Route Overlay on the OS Map ("Blue Routes")
Each walk shown in the list has a Map button, which when clicked or tapped will show an OS (Ordnance Survey) map, centred on the starting point of the walk. For some walks, the map will be overlaid with a blue line, showing the route which was taken on the walk.
For an overlay to be present, firstly the walk must have been recorded by someone equipped with a GPS device or a suitable smartphone, and secondly the resulting GPX file must have been copied from the recording device to our walks database, by an officer of Newton Abbot Ramblers (usually a Walks Co-ordinator) who has access to the database.
Blue Routes can be found by choosing Route Overlay search along with any other required terms, in the Advanced Find facility. If you are showing a Blue Route map on a Windows computer, rather than a tablet computer such as an iPad, you will be able to download the GPX file for your own use. Such use might include copying the file to a map app on your mobile phone, so you can use the phone to guide you along the route of the walk.
Although these notes refer to the route information being stored in a GPX (GPS Exchange Format) file, which is the format used by most GPS devices, some smartphone applications will use the KML (Keyhole Markup Language) format favoured by Google, instead. Our Blue Routes system has been set up to use the GPX format, but if you need to convert from one to the other, this can readily be done online.
Possible uses for a Blue Route include:
You would simply like some ideas as to where to go for a walk with a friend.
You are thinking about leading a walk for us, but you cannot decide where to go.
You have been on one of the walks shown on this site, without having taken in where the walk was going, and you would like to know where you went.
