Edmund Seyfang Taylor

Edmund Seyfang Taylor (27 August 1853 – 19 April 1908), popularly known as "Walker Miles", was an early pioneer of rambling in the UK.

He founded one of the predecessors of the modern-day Ramblers of Great Britain and wrote numerous walking guides.

Walker Miles was the founder of the Croydon Rambling Club and was also associated with the Forest Ramblers and the Commons and Footpaths Preservation Society.

This proved to be the first of many such organizations around the country which eventually joined together to form the National Council of Ramblers Federations.

[1] Walker wrote 37 pocket-sized books of 'field-path rambles' and published them via his own printing company which he inherited from his father.

Series 28 of Field-path rambles
Walker Miles' memorial plaque
The sarsen stone marking Walker Miles' grave
Direction indicator tablets at the top of Leith hill tower.