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Books, maps and guides

Featured publications

Freedom to Roam guides Freedom to Roam guides
Our new series of guides helping walkers explore recently opened access land, available at a special offer price.
Walking for you Walking for you - Cerdded eich lles
How everyone can start enjoying the benefits of regular walking with the help of Britain's biggest walking charity
Take 30 Take30 - Cymerwch30
A practical guide to walking to improve health and well being with the help of Britain's biggest walking charity
Walk Britain walk BRITAIN
This indispensable annual directory is free to members or on sale to the public at £5.99.
The Walker's Companion The Walker's Companion
Small, beautiful and hardback, the perfect present. Over 160 pages of facts, tips, notes, jokes and quotes on the greatest of British pastimes.
Blue Book Rights of Way: a guide to law and practice
(aka the Blue Book)
Our authoritative handbook of rights of way law in England and Wales. Available to order from Cordee. Buy a copy.

Other books, maps and guides

Aqua 3Maps are widely available from bookshops, websites and local retailers. Earn a 10% discount with free postage and help the Ramblers by buying from Aqua3 maps using this link. We receive a 10% donation for every map sold this way. They stock the full range of Ordnance Survey maps and some overseas maps, in either standard paper or coated weatherproof versions.

Ramblers members can hire OS Explorer and Landranger maps, many in weatherproof versions: see the map library order form.

Stanfords logoBooks shown on these pages with an ISBN number should be available from bookshops, mail order and internet sources. Specialist outlets such as Stanfords have many titles in stock, but all good book retailers will be able to order books for you: quote the ISBN number shown for easy reference. We earn a commission if you buy from Stanfords by following the links from our site.

In case of difficulty, contact the publisher, who may also supply direct by mail order. Some small scale publications are only available locally or by mail order from the publisher and in these cases the ordering details are shown.

See maps for walkers for a list of alternative specialist retailers offering a range of guidebooks and maps.