Join one mile stroll to improve your health and enjoy countryside

Published 21 Sep 2010 13:15 0 Comments

KEEP fit and rekindle your love for the countryside on West Berkshire’s new one mile walk. As part of its Walking for Health Scheme, West Berkshire Council is launching a new one mile walk at Hosehill Lake Nature Reserve on Friday (September 24).

The entrance to the reserve is opposite the Fox and Hounds pub at Sunnyside in Station Road, Theale, and the one-mile walk lasts from 10-11.15am - aimed at making it easy for non-active to take a stroll.

Hilary Cole, environment member on the West Berkshire executive, said: “The new route is set around around the fantastic lake setting.”

The event is one of many being staged to mark the launch of the national Walk4Life project set up to try and identify, map, and waymark 2,012 one mile routes by the time of the 2012 Olympic Games.

More adventurous walkers are also invited to join a longer walk that takes place at Hosehill on every fourth Friday of the month.

Plans are now in place to waymark other routes in and around West Berkshire over the coming months, including walks at Greenham Common, Snelsmore Common, and The Nature Discovery Centre.

Cllr Cole said: “Walking is an excellent way of getting out and enjoying the great countryside that we have all around us here in West Berkshire.”

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