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Walk-it: Norwich‘s free online walking route planner

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A new, free online walking route planner for Norwich has been launched, to encourage the city's residents and visitors to walk more: www.walkit.com/norwich.

HEART has commissioned walkit.com - the UK's leading provider of web-based walking directions - to create the route planner for the city with an aim of encouraging walking, reducing traffic and thereby improving health, fitness and the city environment. The site also aims to assist visitors to the city in accessing the city's heritage on foot, enabling visitors to plan walking routes to take in the city's finest heritage buildings and places of interest.

The website is free to use and helps people plan a walking route, giving directions from start to finish. It can:

• Show the most direct route as well as a less busy and more scenic one
• Calculate the distance of the journey
• Work out the time it will take to walk it (at a slow, medium and fast pace)
• Work out the number of calories burned at the different paces
• Calculate how much carbon dioxide you've avoided producing by not going by car, taxi or bus

The route planner is part of a wider project funded by the East of England Development Agency which HEART is working on with the landscape team from Norwich City Council, who are providing expertise and support for the project.

Supported by HM Treasury's Invest to Save Budget