Value for Money from Wiltshire Walks

Wiltshire Walks is a commercial organisation, but we don’t consider that profit margins are a

guide to the level of our success.  Our overall motivation is to provide a great service to our customers so that they feel ‘special’ in every way - something that is unusual to find these days.  Here are a few examples of why we consider our Walks are ‘special’:

• We use Walks Leaders that know the area well,
• and do not use a pre-written ‘commentary’ - the conversation will follow your interests.
• and will try to answer all your questions - if they do not have the answer, they will research this after your Walk, and email you the answer.
•  The ‘pace’ of a Walk is set by you - you can stop and admire the views, take photographs, take small detours - there is no timetable set for your Walk

An example of this?  Well, if you were to become a ‘Fly-On-The-Wall’ for the same Guided Walk on successive days with differing clients you would immediately notice that the same Guided Walk would be very different on each day.  Our Walks Leader will take note of differing clients tastes, and modify both the Walk route and the ‘content’ of the Walk to take these into account.

As this ‘Fly-On-The-Wall’ you will not find the Walk Leader taking you on a route that he/she is following to the metre (via GPS of course) whilst giving a bored rhetoric memorised for that particular Walk.  Of course, our Walks Leaders cannot be experts in every subject, but our Leaders are individually chosen to be the best ‘compatible fit’ for each customer profile.  You are therefore guaranteed an incredible value-for-money Guided Walk in every way.

You may have visited this Website looking for free details of Walks around the area.  Sorry, but we are a commercial organisation, and we don’t provide free details of maps/routes of the usual harangued short walks along well-worn Rights of Way. You find these elsewhere on the Web, or in any of the Walks Guides in the Bookshops.  

The Web makes it seem so easy for us to find information of any kind, and that includes details of Walks and Tours of the English countryside.  But how accurate is this information, both in factual terms, and the age of the information?  In terms of Self-Guided Walks and Tours, can you trust the following information:

• The accuracy of Rights of Way, Footpaths, Tracks and Fences?  Although many maps are derived from ‘definitive’ mapping, errors do occur, and updates, particularly in rural areas, are not frequent. Indeed, we know of one map of the area in which many Rights of Way have not been updated in 50 years.
• The accuracy of Permissive Paths?  Many advertised Walks in this area rely on ‘Permissive Paths’ (PPs), which are provided through the goodness of the landowner(s).  PPs are not Rights of Way, and are subject to frequent alterations and cancellation.  Are you certain that a PP that you are going to walk is still in existence?
• The accuracy of information on Google Earth?  Points of Interest (POIs) are mostly supplied by the general public, and as such, are often completely wrong.  There is also the mischievous element ‘out there’ who love to seed false information onto the Net.......