Travel on Foot
Walking is a great way to support your health and can be adapted to fit your lifestyle.
You can walk almost anywhere, so by grabbing your shoes and heading out, you’ll see benefits including:
- Improved health benefits – walking daily can increase your heart and lung fitness.
- A fitter body – Walking is a low impact exercise, better for your joints and helps alleviating joint pain.
- Reduced expenditure – Walking costs nothing and reduces your spending on petrol.
- New social opportunities – Usually sit down to catch up with friends or family? Try going for a walk with them instead.
There are a number of local amenities that are within an approximate 30-minute walk from your new home including:
Active 10 challenge
Download the Active 10 walking tracker app. It shows you how much brisk walking you’re doing and offers tips on how you can do more.
Living Streets UK
Provides 20 tips for walking; also see the ‘Walk to school’ campaign to get the whole family involved.
Walking Routes Around Kettering
Shows a variety of walking routes around your new home all with different levels of difficulty and distances to fit your needs.
Wellbeing walks North Northamptonshire
Volunteer led, fun, free and friendly local walking groups open to all ages and abilities, exploring the outdoors.
Kettering Walking Group
Walks every other Thursday at 10:30am. Enjoy a gentle-paced walk, through villages and towns around Kettering, covering 3 to 4 miles in about 90 minutes.
Love Exploring App
A free app to explore beautiful parks and open spaces through interactive games.
Free Online Journey Planner
To find the quickest or easiest way from A to B by walking, cycling, public transport and car, use the free Google Maps Journey Planner. It couldn’t be easier!