The benefits of a good walk with your canine companion are endless - from warding off depression and managing weight problems to increasing your chances of meeting Mr or Miss Right. And they're just as great for your pooch too - twice a day walkies will help reduce canine obesity and related conditions including heart disease, arthritis, breathing difficulties and diabetes.

You can now vote for your favourite walk on the 2008 shortlist - you may even win a year's supply of Hill's Science Plan dog food! The voting stage and prize draw closes on 30th November 2008.

STOP PRESS: The second of our new walks is ready to test! Check out Walk Three - Lime Kilns and Quarries now!

As you know we produced our first walk leaflet to help you take your own self-guided walks on Halkyn Mountain and we gained the prestigous title of one of the top ten walks in the UK with MyFavouritePubWalks.com!

We are building a new series of walk leaflets, reworking the first walk leaflet above and creating a second and third leaflet. We are making early versions of them available to you for testing so do please feed back any errors or omissions you have This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it . We are hoping that the final versions of the walks will be in a foldable pocket sized A3 leaflet with lots more information available than our first leaflet.

The first walk will be called Walk One - Halkyns Four Peaks and is a reworking of the original circular walk of 5.75 miles (download the original walk from here). The second walk will be a shorter circular walk of around 3.5 miles called Walk Two - Woods, Buffalo and Hill Forts which will take in some different terrain and part of the Wat's Dyke Way, more of which later. The third walk (this walk) will be a longer circular walk of 9.5 miles and called Walk Three - Lime Kilns and Quarries.

One of the interesting things about these walks is that they share the common feature of the Hill Fort of Moel-y-Gaer. This provides the option to string more than one walk together, for intance, Walk Two + Walk Three is about 12 miles as they share a part of the route in common. Each of the maps will be to scale and list as much inforation as we can of the flora, fauna, geology and anything else we can find of interest.

We have lots of ideas for other walks and the exciting prospect of providing postcards and prints of features, sights and views found on the walks.

Watch this space! In the meantime, the maps are available for all the walks by clicking the icons if you click READ MORE, we'll add the basic text and bird lists as soon as we can. We'll also try to include as much of interest as we can & make the leaflets available online & in hardcopy from the Blue Bell Inn.