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How to find a walk
This example shows you how to select and download a walk on Ordnance Survey Map Landranger 119. This page is for guidance only and you should carry out each of the steps described below on the site itself.
You will also find an interactive walkthrough guide under the Help hill if you prefer. (Click in the Dark Green 'Help' Hill on the go4awalk.com site and then 'Walkthrough: Find a Walk' in the light green bar).
If this page is not open in a separate window, click
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| First get on to the Walks Section
of the site by clicking on the 'Walks' Hill.
Click on the go4awalk.com site and do this now before moving on to the next step |
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| The page automatically opens on our interactive map of the UK showing 'OS Landranger Maps' If you would prefer to select your walk by 'OS Outdoor Leisure' Maps', County or National Park select that option in the Light Green 'Meadow' beneath the navigational 'Hills'. |
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| Select the OS Landranger Map you want to walk in from the interactive Map of the UK.
This example selects 119 Buxton, Matlock & Dovedale.
Click on the go4awalk.com site and do this now before moving on to the next step |
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| This is close up view of the area covered by Ordnance Survey Landranger Map 119.
When you Position the Mouse over a Coloured Circle the shape of a walk in that area appears. If you Click on a Coloured Circle details of a Walk in that location appear at the TOP of the Left Hand Column.
Click on the go4awalk.com site and do this now before moving on to the next step.
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| The outline of the walk tells you where the walk goes, how far it is, what the ascent is, how long it should take and what grade it is. If you need more details about the route, click on the Route Outline button.
If we have pictures from this walk then click on the 'See Pictures of the walk' link.
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To download this walk you must be a current Account Holder/subscriber and logged-on. Accounts with go4awalk.com are only £14.95 for 50 downloads (plus 50 extra downloads ABSOLUTELY FREE if you join today!) - with no time limit, That's just 15p/walk.
Click on the Log On/Accounts Hill and log on with your email and password.
Once you have logged, on click the 'Get Walk' icon (it turns blue when you position the mouse over it) and an Acrobat pdf file of the walk will be downloaded to your computer (providing you have the Acrobat Reader plug-in installed in your browser - see Help > FAQs for more information).
This may take 10-20 seconds or so depending on the speed of your modem and how busy the internet is at the time.
You can decide whether to print it directly or save it to your hard disk to print later (with some browsers you can only choose one of these options)
How it arrives depends a little bit on which computer and browser you are using. Usually the walk will open into a new window. On some computers though, the walk is downloaded direct to your desktop where you have to open it independently.
NB. To print the walk pdf on some browsers you need to click on Acrobat's own print icon situated at the top of each pdf (circled in red on the illustration below) rather than the print icon located in the menu at the top of your browser.
Adobe Acrobat File: d259 Pilsbury and Upper Dovedale from Monyash
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