AN INITIATIVE to connect all of Britain's towns, cities and villages by walking is looking for people to review the routes in Clacks.
Slow Ways, created by Dan Raven-Ellison just before the beginning of the Covid-19 lockdown in 2020, aims to create a national network of walking routes connecting every town, city and village in the UK.
During the Spring 2020 lockdown volunteers from across the nation plotted a network of walking routes that connect all of Great Britain's towns and cities.
Without leaving home, more than 7,000 Slow Ways walking routes were mapped using existing paths, trails and roads. Combined, the routes stretch for 100,000km and lap the equator twice.
The team behind Slow Ways is now looking for people from every town and city in Britain to walk and review the routes to make sure they work in practice.
Dan said: "The Slow Ways walking network will be something we can all enjoy for generations to come.
"Working from their living rooms and kitchens, volunteers have done an incredible job of drafting the network, but now we need to make sure it works on the ground, quite literally.
"To do that, we need people to head out and walk all the proposed routes to check them."
Slow Ways currently has routes on its website from Alloa to Tullibody, Tillicoultry, Alva and Clackmannan which need to be reviewed.
Dan continued: "Making use of country paths, under-used ways and city streets, the idea is to make it easier for people to plan walking journeys between neighbouring places and combine routes to go on longer distance walks.
"Some people will use Slow Ways to simply see friends in neighbouring towns.
"Others will use them to get to a festival, for a walking challenge to raise money for charity, or as time to reflect while exploring nature.
"Millions of us love walking – it's such a simple thing, and it benefits so many of us in so many different ways.
Visit beta.slowways.org/Settlement/Alloa to see the Clacks paths or visit slowways.org for more information.
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