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Visit Thames and Thames Path National Trail Business Engagement Forum

24th Feb’ 2016. Natural England and National Trails

The National Trail Family

• 16 National Trails in England and Wales including the emerging

England Coast Path.

• Cleveland Way
• Cotswold Way
• Glyndw’rs Way
• Hadrian’s Wall Path
• Norfolk Coast Path and Peddars Way
• North Downs Way
• Offa’s Dyke Path
• Pembrokeshire Coast Path
• Pennine Bridleway
• Pennine Way
• Ridgeway
• South Downs Way
• South West Coast Path
• Thames Path
• Yorkshire Wolds Way

The new deal – from April 2013

• National Trails are ‘managed locally but within a national framework
• f guidance and support’.
• NE’s vision –

– ‘…they are a family of the highest quality recreational routes connecting our finest landscapes for extensive off road journeys’

• Trail Partnerships – taking collective

responsibility for local delivery of the trail.

Thames Path National Trail Partnership

• Formed April 2015
• Already enabled:

– Involvement of a much broader range of interested groups and individuals – Engagement with bodies along the full length of Thames Path National Trail – Exploration of a wider range of opportunities

Thames Path National Trail today

• “A walk for walkers and non-walkers alike”
• “The Thames Path National Trail is a tapestry of English

history”

• “A well signposted, level path that takes in city, town and

countryside.”

• www.nationaltrail.co.uk/thames-path
• www.visittahmes.co.uk