Slow Ways Support

Slow Ways was started by Dan Raven-Ellison. Dan’s done lots of walking in the UK and began wondering why our incredible footpath infrastructure, heritage and culture is not better organised and eas...

All over Great Britain – from Shetland to Cornwall! We estimate that one million people live within 500 metres of a Slow Way. The next stage of development is to cover the whole of the UK and Irela...

No. The Slow Ways website should give you all the information you need to search for Slow Ways, find out about them and contribute reviews. There are specific requirements for submitting route surv...

As well as being used to search for, browse, download and print Slow Ways routes, it’s where users can review, rate, verify, and comment on them too. It’s a place to collect and share stories, film...

A small team of volunteers created an overview plan of all the towns and cities to be included in the Slow Ways network, and which neighbouring settlements should be connected. This resulted in the...

Yes.

Slow Ways is a walking network and is not designed for cyclists. We have ambitions to create a cycling network too.

We are keen to map and make clear which Slow Ways routes are useable and desirable for people with different needs. This information is show on the survey tab which can be seen on every route page....

When we say "wheel" we don't mean cycling. This term refers to travelling a route by wheelchair, scooter or with a pram.

The OS Maps platform has been used to collaboratively create all the Slow Ways routes we’ve made so far. The whole Slow Ways network of routes will be published to the OS Maps web platform. A blog ...