East Cheshire Ramblers is a group within the UK-wide Ramblers organisation. Most of our members live in the area of north-east Cheshire centred around Macclesfield and Wilmslow. We organise several walks each week which are generally in our local area or the Peak District but are occasionally in North Wales, the Yorkshire Dales or the Lake District. We have an active footpath maintenance group and our members undertake an annual survey of all the public footpaths in our area, reporting faults to the county council rights of way department.

All members of the Ramblers, whatever their local group, are welcome to join our walks; if you aren't a member you can try up to three of our walks before committing yourself to joining.

Our walks are graded by length

• stroller – up to four miles
• short – up to seven miles but rarely less than five
• medium – between eight and eleven miles
• long – more than eleven miles but rarely more than fifteen

and degree of difficulty

• easy – mostly flat walking on good paths
• moderate – this covers the majority of walks; there might well be a steep hill or two but it will generally be on good paths in undulating terrain
• strenuous – expect a fair bit of uphill walking, maybe even some mild scrambling. We might leave paths for open country but not invariably.