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Circular walks now live on walkit.com
In response to user feedback, we've now launched circular walks – a unique feature of walkit.com.
So if you're looking to stretch your legs during your lunch hour, or maybe are planning a longer walking expedition for the weekend, you can now plan a circular walk from 15 minutes up to 4 hours.
We hope you'll find this feature particularly useful if you're more into walking for health or for leisure (rather than 'functional' A to B walking).
To generate a circular walk just click on the green 'Circular' tab, enter a start point (postcode, street name or point of interest), select your time and speed, and off you go.
Here are a few examples (see note below re timings):
2.5 hour walk from Waterloo Station, London (medium pace)
30 minute walk from Glasgow University (medium pace)
30 minute walk from the Custard Factory, Birmingham (medium pace)
1.5 hour walk from Piccadilly Station, Manchester (medium pace)
Why not have a play generating some routes from your home or place of work, and let us know what you think, or add a comment below.
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Please note the following from our FAQ:- Like our 'less busy' routes, we try and favour quieter streets and 'off-road' paths, but please note that we can't guarantee to find you a 'nice' walk.
- Our timings may be out by a few minutes – it's not always possible to get it spot on. We also prioritise 'less busy' routes, where we can find them, over hitting precise target times.
- Longer routes may take you out of the town/city limits, in which case the walk may be along roads (where we can't guarantee there are pavements) as we haven't yet captured footpath data in the urban/rural fringes of many of our towns/cities.
- We don't have the facility to 'drag' the route in a different direction.
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March 9th, 2010 at 6:15 pm (#)
This is a brilliant idea, I walk for fitness reasons but get lost easily, I think I will definitely use this.
BTW, I can't get your Subscribe by RSS feed button to work, I get an error when I press it.
Cheers.
March 14th, 2010 at 9:27 am (#)
Hi BB – thanks for the positive comment – please spread the word!
We've fixed the RSS issue, so please try and subscribe again.
April 8th, 2010 at 10:48 pm (#)
Yes, great idea. I recently did a 15 mile circular route plotted via the site which was very pleasant.
Any chance it could be enhanced to allow longer walks (4hrs+)?
Thx,
Fzzy
April 9th, 2010 at 3:28 pm (#)
Fzzy – we didn't think we'd get much demand for more than 4 hours! One risk is that longer walks are more likely to stray into urban fringes/countryside where we may not have off-road routing – so people would be taken down roads (which may not have pavements). But we'll look into extending it for larger cities.
April 11th, 2010 at 1:41 am (#)
Great, thanks. Hope you can extend to London. There are a lot of Green Chain routes near me, but I guess it's difficult to plot walks through parks, etc.
The 30 mile A to B route (plotted on here) I followed from London to Gatwick had several long sections without footpaths, but was still a good route.
Cheers, Fzzy