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  • GPDR You will have received many e-mails recently from organizations regarding the new GPDR laws and confirming that you wish to remain on their databases.If you are receiving the walks list by e-mail then your details will be held by us according to the form that you filled in here. The data held by us is just your first and last name plus your e-mail address. This will be used for sending you the walks program and newsletter and may also be used to send out urgent communications such as the late cancellation of a walk. It will not be used for any other purpose and will not be shared with anyone else. Access to the data ...
    Posted by Ralph Burtonshaw
  • Essex Area Update Welcome to the May Edition of the Essex Area Update To link to this edition on the Essex Area Website click here   Festival of Walks 26th May - 3rd June Since the last update a further walk has been added thanks to the Havering Group, on Sat. 2nd June and we thanked them for their efforts. Groups and Area came together for Ramblers CEO walk  in June and comments were made by members that this should happen again.This festival is an opportunity for that to occur.  To get message out a number of Groups are volunteering to use their Facebook page to advertise the events. For a small sum, set by the Groups we will be able to contact many ...
    Posted 5 May 2018, 03:48 by Ralph Burtonshaw
  • Beware of using postcodes As you will know the walk details published give both an Ordnance Survey map reference and a postcode.The postcode is automatically generated by the Ramblers website to be the nearest one to the start of the walk but in some cases this might be quite a distance from the actual start. To give you a clue of how accurate the postcode is you can look at the map on the main ramblers website and you will see a marker for the start of the walk and also an envelope to mark the generated postcode. If they are close together then you can use them in your satnav, but if, as in the example below, they are apart then please ...
    Posted 29 Apr 2018, 00:38 by Ralph Burtonshaw
  • Network Rail Reopening Webmasters Newsletter   No 1 A message from Gordon Bird, Essex Area Chair. The Inspector has recently announced that the Public Inquiry into the proposed Network Rail Essex and others Level crossing reduction order will recommence in Chelmsford on Tues 25th September 2018 following its adjournment on 20th October 2017 due to Network Rail's failure to follow procedures correctly. In the meantime the Cambridgeshire Inquiry has completed whilst the Suffolk Inquiry is under way. We await the findings of these Inquiry's with interest.  For information, of the original 69 crossings scheduled for closure in Essex and other authorities 10 have been withdrawn. Of the remaining 59 Ramblers have objected to the closure of 37 (3 are conditional). Network Rail ...
    Posted 21 Mar 2018, 02:46 by Ralph Burtonshaw
  • Ron's walk 13/2/18 Thanks to Eddie for supplying the GPXDistance: 6.9 miles (11.1Km)Ascent: 746 feet (227 m)Descent: 769 feet (234 m)
    Posted 14 Mar 2018, 01:29 by Ralph Burtonshaw
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