GUIDED WALK : EGHAM to RUNNYMEDE & museum ( free entry) 🍁🍂🌹

Join us for a fascinating historical guided walk taking us through beautiful country side and the spot where one of the worlds most famous and important charter was signed, which has influenced countries all over the world.

MEETING at EGHAM station at 11am on Sunday 9th November.

We will visit Egham Museum ( free entry) before our walk and stop at the Magna Carta tearooms for refreshments for a break.

- 4 miles circular

- includes extensive guided information about the history of the area and the Magna Carta.

“The Magna Carta was sealed on 15 June 1215 by King John at the Runnymede Meadows, in the north of the Borough.

The Magna Carta is recognised as one of the most important documents in English history as it marked the road to individual freedom, parliamentary democracy and to the supremacy of law.

In the spring of 1215, England stood on the brink of Civil War. A group of barons demanded King John agreed to a document as protection against the King's arbitrary behaviour. King John met these Barons in Runnymede and agreed to their demands by sealing a document known as Magna Carta, which is Latin for Great Charter.

From then, no English King could act in a tyrannical manner to erode the rights of free men or dominate the church.
The Great charter of Freedom concludes with these words:

> "Given by Our hand in the meadow which is called Runnymede between Windsor and Staines, on the fifteenth day of June in the Seventeenth year of Our Reign"

The Charter contained the important general expressions of freedom which prohibited the selling of justice, protected the rights of the City of London, prevented the arbitrary imprisonment of freemen, and protected the rights of heirs.
These great principles were exported to the United States of America and as a result, the American Bar Association installed the current Magna Carta Memorial in Runnymede Meadows.”

£9 organiser fee ( cash or contactless )

Contact - 07816 866300