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We are members of the national charity, the Ramblers’ Association. If you wish to contact them, click on the logo. If you wish to support their work, details on how to join can be found under “contacts” page.

Welcome to our website. Use the bar above to navigate our site. See “About Us” for answers to questions newcomers frequently ask. Under “Walks” you will find details of our programme and guidance on what to expect when you join us. Under “News” see information about our social events and under “Contacts” see links to other sites and information about joining The RA..

This is our logo. It was designed soon after our establishment in 1999 by a local sculptor, Catharni Stern, and portrays seven men in one waistcoat. It is based on the 18th century tale of a very fat man, Edward Bright, who then lived in Maldon, and died weighing 44 stone 6lbs. A wag in a local pub tempted an inveterate gambler with a bet that seven hundred men would fit into Bright’s waistcoat.The bet was lost because seven men from the Dengie Hundred fitted into the waistcoat. A “Hundred” is an ancient name for a measure of land,still used in parts of Essex, probably akin to a “shire county” nowadays.