Category Archives: National Trails

The Ridgeway – 87 miles – Overton Hill to Ivinghoe Beacon.

The Ridgeway National Trail stretches 87 miles (139km) across five counties, starting at Overton Hill near Avebury in Wiltshire and passing through Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Hertfordshire and ending at Ivinghoe Beacon in Buckinghamshire. The Ridgeway is often described as ‘the oldest … Continue reading

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Norfolk Coastal Path, 46 miles – Hunstanton to Cromer.

Friday 26th September to Monday 29th September: Why is walking in wild and solitary places so satisfying? Partly it is the sheer physical pleasure: sometimes pitting one’s strength against the elements, sometimes relaxing on the springy turf or sand. The … Continue reading

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Peddars Way, 46 miles – Knettishall to Holme-next-the-sea.

In that country of luminous landscapes and wide horizons where the wind runs in the reeds and the slow rivers flow to our cold sea, a man may still sense and live something of the older England which was uninhabited, … Continue reading

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