Once you have joined and logged-in to Walkingworld you have the opportunity to print out some free sample walks. Each walk comes with an easy-to-follow photographic guide and high resolution Ordnance Survey map to print out, plus files* to import into digital mapping applications and handheld GPS.

Currently we have sample walks all around the country, as featured in the current series of supplements in the Guardian and Observer newspapers. To access these walks first join Walkingworld and then come back to this page. Then click on the walk ID number of the walk of your choice from the list below. On the summary page click to get the step-by-step guide, map and digital mapping files.

Saturday: Art
1702 Sudbury - Valley Path - Borley - Sudbury
3209 Constable Country 2
1548 Achlean to Glenfeshie Lodge
256 Sefton Coastal Path 1, Waterloo - Hightown
4155 Kirkby Lonsdale and Barbon Fell
1410 Brignall Banks - Brignall Mill - Greta Bridge – Brignal
28 Maidenhead - Cookham - Maidenhead

Saturday: Literature
4790 Stratford-upon–Avon Historic Town Trail
4500 Higher Bockhampton - Puddletown Forest
3627 Tam o'Shanter Trail
1167 Haworth - Top Withins - the Bronte Walk
1163 Grasmere and Rydal - the 'Wordsworth Walk'
4215 Dundee Waterfront - McGonagall's Walk
2718 Laugharne - Dylan's Way - Laugharne

Sunday: Film&TV
4485 Loch Airigh - Losgaintir Sands via the Bealach Eor
83 Pangbourne - Greenmoor Hill - Mapledurham - Pangbourne
1936 Holmfirth - Last of the Summer Wine Country
2826 Grosmont - Goathland
270 Oxford Parks and Spires
339 Saltram House (NT) Circular
4322 Ecchinswell – Nuthanger Farm and Watership Down – Ecchinswell

Sunday: Music
2063 Liverpool - Queen's Dock south to Cressington Park
2518 Hanley Swan - Malvern Wells
3924 Firle - Alfriston Circular
312 Llangollen, Canal and Castle
968 Much Wenlock - Wenlock Edge
1544 Burrington Combe - Rowberrow - Dolebury
2432 Dunkeld - River Tay and The Hermitage

Monday: War
3013 Shingle Street - Orford Haven - Hollesley - Aldert
1488 Fort Augustus to Glenmoriston
3180 Lossiemouth to Kingston
206 1066 Walk: Battle to Bexhill
4657 High Down - River Lyd - Tin-Streaming - Great Noddon
300 Housesteads - Once Brewed - Vindolanda - Housesteads
4198 Cheriton and the Civil War Battlefields

Monday: Politics
3497 Kinder Scout from the Grouse Inn
901 Begbroke - Bladon
1444 Burston
1153 Llangynidr - Llangynidr Mountain - Chartist Cave - Llangynidr
4057 Barnes Bridge - Putney
4630 Criccieth - Llanystumdwy - Afon Dwyfor
888 Around Wigtown

Tuesday: Engineering
5020 Bolam - Heighington - Redworth - Shildon - Hummerbeck - Lutterington
2522 South Queensferry - Dalmeny
2788 Anderton and the Trent and Mersey Canal
3649 Ironbridge - Buildwas Abbey - Benthall Hall - Ironbridge
2594 Chirk - The Aqueduct - Shropshire Union Canal - Chirk
1761 Blaenavon - Carreg Maen Taro - Blaenavon
4140 Ogden Water - Ovenden Windfarm

Tuesday: Architecture
728 London Circular: Tower Bridge to Westminster and Back
5205 Twentieth Century London
2641 Belton Park, Grantham
646 Sights of Cardiff
1739 Alnwick - Corby Craggs circular
194 The Splendours of Georgian Bath
3326 Port Sunlight
4431 Edinburgh: the Two-Hour Tour

Wednesday: Lost worlds
4946 Bontddu - Tal-y-bont via the Old Road
4755 Amesbury - Stonehenge
5081 Little Salkeld, Lacy's Caves and Long Meg
3739 Wee Sma Glen
4670 Sparsholt - The Ridgeway - Uffington Castle - Sparsholt
3979 Creswell Crags and Belph Spoil
4460 Corndon Hill - Priest Weston - Mitchell's Fold Stone Circle

Wednesday: Legends
809 Inverfarigaig - Foyers - Loch Ness - Inverfarigaig
4471 Tintagel - Trebarwith - Barras Nose - Tintagel
463 Eildon Hills Circuit
1376 Cadair Idris by the Fox's Path
2630 Fan Foel - Bannau Sir Gaer - Llyn y Fan Fac
4112 Beeding Hill - Monarch's Way - South Downs Way Circuit
3765 Hole of Horcum - Levisham - Lockton

Thursday: Castles
714 Windsor Castle, the River Thames and Eton College
2817 Conwy Mountain by Groesffordd
1079 Richmond - Easby - Richmond
3277 Hawkshead, Blelham Tarn and Wray Castle
1727 Ochil Hills: Dollar Glen
2461 Keyhaven - Hurst Castle
403 White Castle - Grosmont - Skenfrith - White Castle

Thursday: Churches
4792 Baddesley Clinton - Rowington - Baddesley Clinton
750 Footdee - Seaton Park - Old Aberdeen - Footdee
2073 Caldey Island
3407 Parwich - Ballidon - Bradbourne
4549 Holywell Bay to Penhale Sands and the Lost Church
2231 The Marden Villages
2652 Roslin and the North Esk Valley

Friday: Wildlife
4942 Inshes Marshes Nature Reserve
1007 Oddington - Noke - Ot Moor
52 Flamborough Head
3957 Nefyn - Porth Dinllaen - Morfa Nefyn - Nefyn
4066 New Forest - Brockenhurst - Ober Heath - Brockenhurst
3623 Thorney Island - a remote coastal walk
1784 Wood of Cree

Friday: Water
309 Hunters Inn - Woody Bay - South West Coast Path - Hunters Inn
2618 Howtown - Patterdale - Glenridding
878 Plodda Falls
1629 Bourton-on-the-Water - The Slaughters
4038 Water's Edge and Barton Claypit
2358 Bosherston Lily Ponds - Stackpole Head - Bosherston
3878 Glasgow's Kelvin Walkway: Clydeside - Maryhill

For the walks featured in the Times supplement (published 18th April 2009), join as above and then use the Find a Walk search to enter the walk ID given in the supplement.

On top of these walks there are a few more made free by their contributors:

1557 Abergregan - Coed Morgannwg Way - Pontrhydyfen in the Swansea area by John Thorn
From the old mining village of Abergregan follow the Coed Morgannwg Way to Efail Fach, returning along old railway lines in the Afan Valley. This walk is sponsored by the Colliers at Pontrhydyfen.

599 Clacton - Holland - Great Holland - Frinton - Walton - Shopping Village Essex coast by Brian and Anne Sandland
This walk is made free by the Sandlands especially for people from Essex. A walk of great variety and interest enjoyable by all and at all times of year.

2997 The Ken - Dee Marshes Nature Reserve in Dumfries & Galloway by Tony Brotherton
This is another walk kindly donated by the contributor and is for all visitors, including wheelchair users, wanting a pleasant stroll in a nature reserve.

4380 Formby to Freshfield, a wheelchair special in Merseyside by Jim Grindle
Starting from Fromby Station, everyone including wheelchair users, has the opportunuty to see the sea, the church and red squirrels on this special walk kindly donated as a free walk by Jim Grindle.

You can link to all these walks either from this page or by going to Find a Walk, typing the walk ID number into the appropriate box and pressing 'Go'.

We do hope you enjoy trying out some of these walks and that you like the format, which is designed to make routes very easy to follow. If you would like to access all 5000+ walks in the database a modest annual subscription is all you need to pay. When you are logged in just click any of the links to 'subscribe' and follow the instructions - your payment is taken on a secure server by WorldPay and you will get access to all the walks immediately.

* Currently GPX files can only be accessed by subscribers. You can convert an MMO or RXF file for free by downloading Quo from the Mapyx website. You don't need to buy any maps, just use the application to import the MMO or RXF and export it as GPX.