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The Founders Footpaths
- an anytime 26 mile challenge -
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Tony Youngs, the walk's originator, on the summit of Pitch Hill
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| The Founders Footpaths |
The 26 mile Founders Footpaths, originally devised by Tony Youngs, and first walked in April 1995 by members of the LDWA Surrey Group. The route is used largely, but not completely, for the LDWA London Group's annual Founders Challenge which takes place in October. Under the recordership of Ann Sayer the Founders Footpaths is offered as an anytime challenge as detailed below.
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| Start & Finish |
The route is circular and can be started and finished anywhere but the route description starts and finishes at Ranmore East Car Park GR TQ141504 |
| Route |
The route follows mainly rights of way but in places it takes paths that are not shown as rights of way on Ordnance Survey maps but which are on open access land belonging to the National Trust or Hurtwood Control. The route is covered by Landranger sheets 186 & 187 and Explorer sheets 145 & 146. You will need a compass and all bearings in the route description are given as magnetic. The route description is checked periodicaly, but please bear in mind that stiles, gates, barriers, notices, waymarks and even woodlands can appear and disappear over time. The current edition of the route description was last updated in March 2010. |
| Sketch Map |
Tony produced an informative sketch map of the route which is broadly followed by the current route description with only minor differences. Sketch maps were a hallmark of Tony's routes and this for the Founders Footpaths is typical of them. |
| Pictures |
We are currently constructing a gallery of pictures taken around the route. If you have any pictures of your own and would like us to include them in the gallery for others to view please email them to us indicating when and where they were taken. |
| Certificate |
If you complete the walk in 10 hours or less and would like a certificate, please write a very brief account of your walk, saying where and when you started and finished and making any comments you may have on any aspect of the challenge, and send it with a cheque for £2, made payable LDWA Surrey Group, to the Recorder: Ann Sayer, 29 Twickenham Road, Teddington, Middlesex, TW11 8AQ. Your comments on the route description and your help in keeping it up to date would be most welcome. |
| Other Surrey Group Challenge Walks |
Although the Founders Footpaths is Surrey's only 'anytime' challenge we do offer a range other social & challenge events. See our programme of walks and walks archive for details. |
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