ViewRanger

Route planning and maps
You can find maps of these walks on the ViewRanger website or the ViewRanger app. You can download the routes to the ViewRanger app on your smartphone.

The website link is below

ViewRanger

Select the Find Route tab and enter into the Search by text and VR shortcode: box

Either warwick district U3A or WDU3A

You will need to Zoom In to find a walk and view a map.

Alternatively there are maps available on the Warwick district U3A website. Link below.

Warwick district U3A

Select the Groups tab and then the Rambling/Walking category.

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Grid Reference finder

The parking directions always give the grid reference for the parking spot. Sometimes the postcode is given. If not, you can use the Grid Reference finder at the link below to find the postcode of the start of the walk to use in your car satnav (or to google on your smartphone). 

http://www.gridreferencefinder.com/

You can enter a location (road, village) or the OS grid reference (as 2 letters followed by 6 digits)

For example:
Ramble: Alcester - Ragley Park 5 miles
Park in the Alcester town centre carpark off Moorfield road
Grid Ref 089575 Explorer 205

Now add 2 letters in front of grid ref  to produce, say SP089575 and enter this in the Grid Reference box on the left. Most of our walks will use the 2 letters SP. Now click on Go the the right of the box. A map of the area appears. You can Zoom in or out, change the map to Satellite (map) by using buttons on the top left or to an OS map by scrolling down and selecting the button on the bottom right. Now right click on the exact parking spot. A window is displayed giving the exact OS grid ref in 10 digits, latitude and longitude, postal address and postcode.

Google Earth

You can use this to identify parking places.

Google Earth