Welcome to the Harrogate Group of the Ramblers
Welcome to the Harrogate Group of the Ramblers.
We organise a walk each Saturday of various distances. These walks are at a moderate pace. You are welcome to join us for a couple of walks before joining the Ramblers. Joining the Ramblers gives you access to not just the walks organised by the Harrogate Group but all Ramblers groups throughout the UK.
Our walks explore the attractive countryside that surrounds Harrogate, a countryside of meadows and woodland, steep-sided valleys and craggy outcrops. Not far away are the Yorkshire Dales and the North York Moors. There is a good network of public paths enabling us to visit places of beauty that cannot be reached by road.
Good walks need good paths! The Harrogate Group of the Ramblers is also a footpath protection group and looks after local public footpaths on behalf of the whole walking community. All local planning applications which might affect public footpaths and applications for footpath diversions are carefully scrutinised by the Group to make sure that the path is fully protected. Paths blocked by vegetation and crops, dangerous stiles etc are reported to the local highway authority for appropriate action.
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Big Thanks at our AGM 2025
This year’s AGM was held on Saturday 8 November 2025 at Trinity Methodist Church, Harrogate. The pre-AGM walk was enjoyed by those who attended it and although the weather forecast was bright and sunny we did get blessed with a shower but it did not spoil the walk or chat. It was taken from "Four local Walks in Urban Harrogate" written by Keith Wadd during lockdown. The book was proudced by Skyware Ltd on behalf of the West Riding Area of the Ramblers' Association.
At the end of the AGM Keith Wadd was presented by the Vice Chairman Andrew Willoughby with a book of Yorkshire views and thanked by all for his work on the Harrogate Ramblers Committee. Keith had been on the Committee since 1990 and steped down at the AGM.
Keith and his wife Anne joined the Ramblers after a Ramblers Holiday in Crete in 1987, and allocated to the Harrogate Group. Keith became West Riding Area Secretary in 1994 in response to a note in the West Riding Rambler asking for volunteers to take on the role. Shortly after that, Peter Goldsmith suggested Keith join the Harrogate Group Committee and Keith agreed and has been on the Group Committee ever since, until standing down at this years AGM.
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We now have copies of the Harrogate Ringway and Knaresborough Round Leaflets that are Free to download. Go to the Shop Tab.
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Please find our walks programme here