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Walks & Walking - MOD Stafford and around Hopton

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Find Great Walks, Historical Walks and Guided Walks in and around Hopton and Staffordshire

Find the best Hopton walks. The Ramblers Association now have a greatly improved website which is an exceptional resource for all walkers, hikers and young families wanting to go for walks with young children. This site lists everything from historical walks to leader led walks to any really arduous walks within the MOD Stafford area.

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Walking Britian

Find A Walk Near Me by using Walking Britain is a truly excellent and free resource. Just enter where you are or where you would like to walk - and print out directions. The walks are graded and you can buy a specific map of the area at the same time. These are proper OS maps and weather proofed if required.

I always think of walking as one of the few activities you can do for free - and now you can with this guide!
Click to find a Walk near Hopton or anywhere in UK using Walking Britain

Walking, Hiking and Outdoor Shops

Trespass

30 Gaolgate St, Stafford ST16 2NT, UK – 01785 223806

Has everything you need for outdoor adventures. Great staff super helpful!

It's okay, Staff are helpful and they are good value.

Millets

11-12, Gaolgate St, Stafford ST16 2BG, UK – 01785 336397

It's an improvement on the old premises. A good range of outdoors products in store at reasonable prices.

Went in to buy some walking shoes and spent an hour trying on several due to none of them not quite fitting my feet properly. Eventually after making the assistant bring out box after box I found a pair that fitted. The staff were really accommodating of my requirements and persisted as much as myself in finding the right shoes. They could easily had fobbed you off with something high priced just to clinch the sale but they didn't. This is a really professional service.

The Range, Stafford

Greyfriars Business Estate, Grey Friars' Pl, Stafford ST16 2PE, UK – 01785 255759

I enjoy the place and have spent a lot there, in every department. But beware!!!! Know what their opening times are. If you go into their parking lot before they're open, ParkingEye will get you!!!! And the Range doesn't try and help you !!!!

Large home and garden store, wide range of goods, well laid out, wheelchair accessible, low prices but not cheap tacky goods, some well known brands and some less known European brands,

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Walking Worlds Walks Directory of Walks near MOD Stafford and close to Hopton

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Walks from easy to difficult near Hopton

Another good walking guide. Walkingworld has huge library of guides with a good selection of walks, of varying lengths and grades, pretty well anywhere in the UK. The walks come in an excellent format making them very easy to follow, with photographs to illustrate every important decision point and a proper Ordnance Survey map.

A modist annual subscription gives you unlimited access to all the walks. However you can Pay As Go by downloading indiviual walks.You get one walk free.

Crucially you can also find walks France, Spain, Norway, Portugal and Australia!

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Camping and Caravaning

Camping Equipment Hire

14 Commonside Cl, Stafford ST16 3FP, UK – 07846 302728

Cheap parking

Ingestre Lodges

New Stables, Ingestre, Stafford ST18 0RE, UK – 01889 271013

Brilliant! I stayed for two nights with family and there are 4 double bedrooms with a good living/dining room and kitchen! A nice touch is the stable's cat who insists on coming in and joining you as if he was your own family cat for years!! we named him Gary!! Very splendid accommodation, beautifully decorated. On a very minor negative point, some of the bedding needed to be replaced and more extra toilet rolls would have been useful. All in all a very fabulous place to stay.

I would highly recommend Ingestre Lodges as somewhere to stay especially after a wedding. We had a wonderful reception at Ingestre Hall and it was a great pleasure to be able to relax and discuss our special day in such beautiful and comfortable surroundings with family and friends.The accomodation is very stylish and homely providing everything you could need .The open plan living room is very spacious, the fully fitted kitchen is well equipped, the beds are sumptuous and the bathrooms luxurious. An amazing and truely memorable experience.

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Dog friendly walks and accommodation - Hopton

Find Dog Friendly Accommodation Hopton and Staffordshire

Looking for dog friendly cottages around Hopton? The 'Dog Friendly Cottages' website looks like any other self-catering accommodation website but every single one should be dog friendly! This saves worrying and going through all the small print. However you you may need to check with the owner where the dog is expected to sleep and the what size of dog you can have!
Click to find a self-catering dog friendly cottages around MOD Stafford

Find Dog Friendly Walks around Hopton and Staffordshire

Dog People find this is such a great website. If you have dogs who go on holiday with you just enter ST18 0FZ and everything from dog friendly Bed and Breakfasts and Hotels to dog friendly walks and beaches come up. The Dog People site covers Bed & Breakfast, Holiday Parks, Hotels, Self Catering, Pubs & Food, Days Out. Enjoy!
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Flat Walks, Buggy Walks, Short Walks

Hopton Buggy Walks, Short Walks, Granny or Grandpa Walks

'Walks with Buggies' is a must for walking parents with young children, babies or even grannies and grandpas! If you would like to walk around MOD Stafford or Staffordshire just select your nearest town, length of walk and type of walk. You will not only be able to download detailed OS maps free of charge but you can read reviews of walks and their ratings - and add your own afterwards! Enjoy PS This link has been withdrawn. Please watch this space or send a suggestion!
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Snakes and Snake Bites

What to do if you are bitten by a snake

Snake bites

Most snake bites in the UK are not serious. But it's important to get all snake bites checked as soon as possible.

Call 999 or go to A&E immediately if:

  • you think you, or someone else, has been bitten by a snake

Find your nearest A&E

Information:

If you're not in the UK when you are bitten by a snake, contact the emergency medical services in the country you're in.

Get foreign travel advice on GOV.UK

What to do while you're waiting for help

Do

  • stay calm, most snake bites in the UK are not serious and can be treated

  • keep the part of your body that was bitten as still as you can

  • lie in the recovery position if you can

  • take paracetamol for any pain

  • try to remember the colour and pattern of the snake to tell the doctor

  • take off any jewellery and loosen clothes near the bite, in case it swells

Don’t

  • do not go near the snake, or try to catch or kill it

  • do not try to suck or cut the poison (venom) out of the bite

  • do not tie anything tightly round the part of the body where the bite is

  • do not take aspirin or ibuprofen, as they can make bleeding worse

What happens at the hospital

You will usually need to stay in hospital for at least 24 hours if you have been bitten by a snake.

The bite will be cleaned and bandaged. You may be given an injection to help protect you from tetanus.

If you were bitten by a poisonous (venomous) snake you will be treated with a medicine to fight the venom. This is given through a thin tube into a vein, called a drip.

Types of UK snake

Only 3 types of snake are found in the wild in the UK.

The adder is the only venomous snake, but you should get all snake bites checked as soon as possible.

Telling the doctors the colour and pattern of the snake that bit you could help them treat it.

Click to see images of the our three types of snake and what to do if you get bitten

www.nhs.uk/conditions/snake-bites

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