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| Ellie and Dave Brewer - the Hertfordshire Walker team |
We have been sharing our walks online for more than 25 years. They have always been free of charge and always will be.
We have no connection with a company that created a paid-for subscription walking app in April 2022 and charges to access walks.
Our aim is to share our love of walking in the Hertfordshire countryside with like-minded people who also enjoy getting out and about.
Dave built the site and plots and maps all the walks, takes the photos, writes the directions, and manages the website. Ellie is the map reader and navigator and is also in charge of quality control having the final decision regarding which walks are published on the site.
Dave has worked as a journalist and editor in print, broadcast and online journalism. He was a political correspondent at the BBC, the managing editor of BBC News Online, the managing editor at CNN.com Europe, Middle East, and Africa, and the launch consultant for Al Jazeera English.
Apart from updating Hertfordshire Walker he is also the founder and editor of Media Helping Media which provides free journalism training resources for journalists living in countries where the media is still developing.
Ellie has worked in the insurance industry and in human resources for a charity helping people with learning disabilities. She is a big Zumba and yoga fan.
The first few walks in the collection are about three to four miles long and fairly easy. Most of the earlier walks are around Brookmans Park; this is because we first started publishing walks near our home on a village website we ran. When we had walked most of the local paths we created this site, Hertfordshire Walker, and expanded our range to cover the whole county.
We have walked every inch of every walk on our site, sometimes several times. We would never publish a walk unless we had throughly tested it.
We would like to thank Gerry Gross, a regular user of Hertfordshire Walker, for volunteering his considerable computer programming skills to help us introduce improvements to the way the site works for the benefit of fellow walkers. Gerry has been working his way through all the walks on the site giving valuable feedback and suggestions for improvements.
We are also grateful to Zsolt Ero from MapHub for allowing us to use their amazing free mapping tools to create all the walking maps and GPX files on the site.
Hertfordshire Walker is on Mastodon and BlueSky. We have a Facebook page and a members-only Facebook group, which everyone is welcome to join.
