The following towns currently have Walkers are Welcome status:

Hebden Bridge
Moffat
Dumfries and Galloway
Prestatyn & Meliden North Wales coast
Mytholmroyd
West Yorkshire
Church Stretton Shropshire
Market Weighton,
E Yorks
Kilsyth
Lanarkshire
Pentrefoelas
Bishop's Castle, Shropshire
Richmond,
North Yorks
Otley, West Yorkshire
Cilgerran,
Pembrokeshire
Martley, Worcs
Tadcaster
Rhuddlan
Haltwhistle
Llanfairfechan
Penmaenmawr
Kirkby Stephen
Holywell
Deal
Malvern
Kingsbridge
Llangollen
Leyburn
Pickering
Llandrindod Wells
Winchcombe, Glos
Ross-on-Wye
Ilkley
Llandysul & Pont Tyweli
Wiveliscombe
Newton Stewart
Huntly
Pateley Bridge
Corby
Tomintoul
Chesham
Marsden
Bradfield
Cleobury Mortimer
Dunster
Hayle, Cornwall
Kirkintilloch
Longborough, Glos
Wellington, Shropshire
Knaresborough

WHERE WALKERS ARE WELCOME:

2010 conference in Kilsyth

The 2010 conference will take place in Kilsyth on Oct 24th 2010.

2009 conference in Church Stretton

The excellent 2009 conference,'Our Present and Our Future', was held in Church Stretton on Sunday October 18th 2009. (For the programme, look here.)

2008 conference in Prestatyn

Our 2008 conference took place on Sunday October 26th, in the north Wales town of Prestatyn.

Over fifty delegates were present, representing twenty-two towns and villages. We were pleased also to welcome John Lloyd Jones, chairman of the Countryside Council for Wales, Tom Franklin, CEO The Ramblers Association, and Beverley Penney, Director, Ramblers Wales.

• Chair's introduction and review of 2007-8
• Prestatyn walking festival (PowerPoint)

The conference programme is still available for information.

2007 conference in Hebden Bridge

The first Walkers are Welcome conference, held in Hebden Bridge on October 21st 2007, was a lively and stimulating event. Among other decisions, delegates present agreed to create the Walkers are Welcome Towns Network and the first committee for the Network was elected. Prestatyn offered to host the second WaW conference, to be held in the autumn of 2008.

PowerPoint presentations are available for some of the presentations - be warned, however that these can be very large files.

Andrew Bibby: the Walkers are Welcome concept

Malcolm Wilkinson: Prestatyn and Meliden (2 Mb)

Andrew Bibby: Hebden Bridge (10 Mb)

Bruce Crowther: How the Fairtrade Town concept was developed (1.3 Mb)

Making the most of Walkers are welcome status. Workshop

Note: the original leaflet for the conference is still available here.

Conference delegates take part in one of the workshop sessions