Britain’s 10 most popular walks – according to the OS map app

Ordnance Survey reveals the hikes most enjoyed by the British public over the past 12 months, according to its app

The nation’s 10 favourite walks this year were calculated by OS through data collected from its OS maps app between April 2022 and April 2023. The app is downloaded over 3.5 million times a month to find routes and navigate the outdoors, and the latest figures reveal that people were returning to rural areas in greater numbers compared with urban routes, reversing trends that developed during the coronavirus pandemic. Ordnance Survey spokesperson David Jones describes the routes …