Walking in Stoke-on-Trent

Walking is an ideal form of exercise.  It needs no equipment or expense and is one of the best ways for you to become more active. It is also kind to the environment.

We know that people need to walk more. That's why our Local Transport Plan  has an ongoing programme of measures to help make your walking journey safer, more direct and generally more pleasant.

Such measures include:

• new road crossings;
• safer local streets;
• better maintained footways;
• new surfaced paths; and
• safer routes to school.

We also try to make sure that new developments are better designed and that buildings and services are located in sensible locations that encourage rather than prohibit walking.

Places to Walk

Stoke-on-Trent has approximately 850 km of pavements where you can walk as part of your everyday activities. But there are also many other places where you can enjoy a traffic-free and pleasant walk including:

• numerous parks and open spaces;
• miles of greenways; and
• canal towpaths.

Greening for Growth

We have started an ambitious programme of improving the image of the city under the Greening for Growth project. This includes the improvement of:

• parks;
• opens spaces; and
• new river paths, canals and former disused railway lines.

Follow this link to our leisure pages find out more. 

Walking the way to Health

This initiative was set up in October 2000 by the British Heart Foundation and the Countryside Agency. It aims to improve the health and fitness of more than a million people, especially those who do little exercise or who live in areas of poor health.

For more information follow the link on the right to visit the walking your way to health website.

Tip: We recommend you buy yourself a pedometer and surprise yourself as to how far you walk just doing everyday activities such as shopping or walking to friends. See if you can build up to the recommended 10,000 steps a day for maximum health benefit.

Contact us

For further information on walking in Stoke-on-Trent email transportation@stoke.gov.uk or phone 01782 - 236178.