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 Thornton-Cleveleys, Lancashire
Shows a variety of walking routes around your new home all with different levels of difficulty and distances to fit your needs.
What’s On
Fancy a day out with the family? Then why not get outside in your local area and get moving with Lancashire
Wyre Council
Click here for walking events and activities in your local area. Or why not join a weekly walking/outdoor activity.
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!