The Wakefield Way is a 70 mile, waymarked walking route around the Wakefield Metropolitan District and covers a wide variety of landscapes. The route is divided into 11 sections of varying length with start and end points accessible by public transport.
PLEASE can members of all Groups and West Riding Area complete the questionnaire that was included in the latest West Riding Rambler (January 2018). Please complete the questionnaire whether you are an active member or not. We particularly want to know your age as for future policy decisions we…
The Annual General Meeting of the West Riding Area of the Ramblers’ Association will be held at the Clarke Foley Centre, Cunliffe Road. Ilkley at 2 p.m. on Saturday 27th January 2018. All members of West Riding Area (that includes all members of Groups, and unattached members) are eligible…
Message from the Area Chairman, I am very pleased to announce that the 152nd edition of the West Riding Rambler and subsequence editions will now be produced. My cry for help has brought forward three volunteers to edit the newsletter, Colin Speakman as lead, supported by Simon Hogg and Jim…
The Ramblers CEO, Vanessa Griffiths (known as Van) and the new Area Support Manager, Richard Sharp visited the West Riding Area on Thursday. It was great to chat to Van and Richard about what we do locally and hear about the plans for the future for the wider organisation. Van is a keen…
JANET STREET-PORTER TO UNVEIL COMMEMORATIVE RIGHT TO ROAM PLAQUE Media Personality and Right to Roam campaigner Janet Street-Porter will unveil a plaque to commemorate a historic meeting in the Right to Roam campaign. The historic meeting, the “Stalling Busk Conference”, took place in the…
The restored 400ha St Aidan’s opencast coal site a few miles south east of Leeds near Woodlesford was opened to great acclaim four years ago on 23rd May 2013. That date also marked the confirmation by Leeds City Council of the order creating over 12km of footpaths and bridleways across the restored site and extinguishing […]
When we wander about the countryside surely the thing we encounter most often is grass in its various guises, but had you realised just how many guises there are and just how valuable that grass is for our wildlife? Meadows for example can have a rich variety of flora associated with them and with these […]
A plaque to commemorate an important historic site and event for The Ramblers and the whole walking community will be unveiled on October 7th. The site of the plaque is on Jerry Pearlman’s house at Stalling Busk in Wensleydale. It was at this house in Wensleydale in August 1998 that the Stalling Busk Conference took […]
The West Riding Rambler is our quarterly magazine, received by all Ramblers members in our area.
