Walking is an excellent form of exercise as well as free travel to work!
Please visit the Explore Your Neighbourhood and Walking Routes pages on the Transport for Greater Manchester website. You’ll be able to plan your journey, look at the map or research different walking routes or heritage trails across Manchester.
Walking regularly can improve your health and wellbeing because walking is not only good for the body; it’s great for the mind too!
Some benefits of walking are:
(According to British Heart Foundation, Stay Alive Stay Active)
Visit the NHS Walking for Health website for more encouraging information.
For further interest the Walk It website has a lot of useful information including:
You can plan a route by using the Walkit - Urban Walking Route Planner
Please note that this planner will not calculate a route to the OU it is for general interest only.
Working to make the streets you live, work, shop and play in safe, attractive and enjoyable spaces. We've been doing just that, since 1929.
We are all pedestrians, and our streets are the one public space we all use, everyday. At Living Streets, we think that they are worth fighting for. With our supporters, we work to create streets that really put people first. When we have streets we want to walk in, lives are transformed - we are healthier, happier and more sociable
For further information see the Living Streets Website
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