Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
  1. Home
  2. Search

Refine search

Refine search

Access:
Content type:
Publication date:
Apply   From and To filters
Subject: Show more
Journals Show more
Publishers: Show more
Societies Show more
Series: Show more
Collections: Show more

Actions for selected content:

Select all | Deselect all
  • View selected items
  • Export citations
  • Download PDF (zip)
  • Save to Kindle
  • Save to Dropbox
  • Save to Google Drive

Save Search

You can save your searches here and later view and run them again in "My saved searches".

Please provide a title, maximum of 40 characters.
Cancel
×

1 results

  • Walkers' Navigational Needs–Steam or the Chip?

  • Julian Tippett
  • Journal:
    The Journal of Navigation / Volume 49 / Issue 1 / January 1996
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    21 October 2009, pp. 53-57
    Print publication:
    January 1996

  • Surveys reveal that walking is by far the most popular leisure activity in the UK, and still growing. Each year some half a billion ‘leisure day visits’ specifically involve walking in the countryside and over 60 percent of the adult population claim to participate in walking as a ‘sport’. These statistics serve to confirm our own experience that enormous numbers of walkers go out to enjoy the countryside, but when we say ‘walker’ we include Sunday afternoon strollers in Windsor Great Park, a rambling group following the coastal path in Dorset, strong fit youths doing the Pennine Way, or Munro baggers in the Scottish highlands. Walkers come in many a hue.