January 2023

Walk 27 trails the youthful River Windrush upstream to a top-notch country pub in the Cotswolds.
Photo: Roger Butler

1. Cornwall Buttern & Leskernick Hills
2. Dorset Beaminster & Stoke Abbot
3. East Sussex Piltdown & Sheffield Park
4. Berkshire Hungerford & Kintbury
5. Kent High Halstow & St Mary Hoo
6. Hertfordshire Braughing
7. Warwickshire Corley Moor
8. Shropshire Stiperstones
9. Staffordshire Brewood & Chillington Hall
10. Nottinghamshire Robin Hood Way
11. Derbyshire Old Glossop
12. Cambridgeshire The Giddings
13. Norfolk/Suffolk Brandon & Hockwold
14. Lincolnshire Witham Valley
15. Lancashire Abbeystead
16. Cumbria Skiddaw & Glenderaterra Beck
17. Cumbria Grange Fell, Watendlath & High Seat
18. East Yorkshire Kiplingcotes & South Dalton
19. North Yorkshire Penhill
20. Tyne & Wear/County Durham Penshaw Hill & Lambton Park
21. Bridgend Bryngarw Park & Blaengarw
22. Monmouthshire/Gloucesteshire The Kymin & Wye Valley
23. Conwy Cwm Penamnen
24. East Lothian Dirleton & the Brigs of Fidra
25. Perth & Kinross Pitlochry & Loch Faskally
26. Highland Loch Ness & the Falls of Foyers
27. Gloucestershire Naunton & the Slaughters

December 2022

Walk 15 passes this unusual survey pillar on the lonely fells above Longsleddale in the Lake District.
Photo: Roger Butler

1. Devon Saunton Sands & Braunton Burrows
2. Somerset Dinder & Wells
3. Wiltshire Wilton and the Kennett & Avon Canal
4. Hampshire Hamble Estuary
5. East Sussex Mount Caburn
6. Surrey Abinger Hammer
7. Buckinghamshire Nether Winchendon
8. Worcestershire Clent Hills
9. Northamptonshire Badby
10. Leicestershire Donisthorpe
11. Nottinghamshire Ranby
12. Cambridgeshire Soham & Fordham
13. Norfolk Winterton-on-Sea
14. Greater Manchester Strines
15. Cumbria Harrop Pike & Tarn Crag
16. Cumbria Heughscar Hill
17. West Yorkshire Elland

    UPDATE: Point 3 – Route to canal currently closed for roadworks. Detour R along road. L down cobbled Exley Bank. R along A629. R before petrol station (‘Hebble Trail’). Sharp L under A629 to follow towpath under Wakefield Road. Cross footbridge at lock. Down cobbled slope, pass lower lock and follow detour to Stainland Road. Go R to crossing and path around construction site to towpath. R to Long Lees Lock and resume route.

18. North Yorkshire Wykeham & Hutton Buscel
19. North Yorkshire Bilsdale & Round Hill
20. County Durham Spennymoor to Durham
21. Powys Caer Einon & Gilwern Hill
22. Powys Aberedw Hill & Wylfre
23. Conwy Moel Siabod (via Daear Ddu)
24. Dumfries & Galloway Balcary
25. West Lothian Winchburgh

    UPDATE: Point 5 – Construction work mentioned is now blocking the route. Continue along canal path, or the track after the railway bridge and turn R on the B8020, to return to Winchburgh.

26. Highland Melvich Beach & Portskerra
27. Lancashire Pendle Hill

November 2022

The Peak District’s Great Ridge rolls away to the east from the summit of Mam Tor – the high point of family-friendly Walk 13.
Photo: Nick Hallissey

1. Cornwall Nare Head
2. Dorset Hambledon & Hod Hills
3. Dorset Badbury Rings
4. Gloucestershire/Bristol Frenchay & the Frome Valley
5. Hampshire Itchen Abbas
6. Kent Knole & Ightham Mote
7. Oxfordshire Islip & Otmoor
8. Essex Newport & Wicken Bonhunt
9. Herefordshire Orleton & Yarpole
10. Warwickshire Offchurch & Newbold Comyn
11. Staffordshire Swynnerton Old Park
12. Derbyshire/Leicestershire Calke & Ticknall
13. Derbyshire Mam Tor
14. Suffolk Wickham Market to Woodbridge
15. Lincolnshire Haxey
16. Merseyside Liverpool
17. Cumbria Lingmoor Fell
18. Cumbria Smardale Gill
19. West Yorkshire Roundhay Park
20. North Yorkshire Fremington Edge
21. North Yorkshire Wharram Percy & Thixendale
22. Northumberland Berwick-upon-Tweed
23. Swansea Burry Holms
24. Anglesey Parys Mountain
25. Falkirk Bo’Ness & Kinneil Estate
26. Highland Càrn Ghluasaid
27. Powys/Ceredigion Pumlumon Fawr

October 2022

The wooded banks of the River Allen turn golden in autumn. Catch this kaleidoscopic show of colour while you can on Walk 20.
Photo: David Marsh

1. Devon Loddiswell & Avon Valley Woods
2. Devon Ivybridge & Butterdon Hill
3. Somerset Winsford Hill
4. Wiltshire Morgan's Hill & Wansdyke
5. West Sussex Bignor Hill, Bury & Sutton
6. West Sussex Slindon, Halnaker Hill & Bignor Hill
7. Surrey Outwood Common
8. Buckinghamshire Brill & Boarstall
9. Shropshire Wenlock Edge & Easthope
10. Shropshire Much Wenlock & Arlescott
11. Northamptonshire Farthinghoe
12. West Midlands Berkswell & Meriden

    UPDATE: Incorrect grid ref and postcode printed: correct postcode CV7 7BJ, correct grid ref SP245791. Footpaths between Points 4 and 5 affected by HS2 construction. Take diverted path M216 before Marsh Farm via Sixteen Acre Wood to resume described route at Point 5.

13. Cambridgeshire Little Abington & Linton
14. Norfolk Overstrand & Northrepps
15. Greater Manchester/West Yorkshire Calderbrook & Crook Hill
16. Cumbria Winster
17. South Yorkshire Rabbit Ings
18. North Yorkshire Pateley Bridge
19. North Yorkshire May Beck & Falling Foss
20. Northumberland Allen Banks & Staward Gorge
21. Vale of Glamorgan Tinkinswood & St Lythans
22. Powys Bryn-y-Fan & Llyn Clywedog
23. Conwy Dulyn Bothy & Pant y Griafolen
24. Midlothian Ratho & Lin’s Mill Aqueduct
25. West Lothian Linlithgow & the Avon Aqueduct
26. Angus Auchmithie to Arbroath
27. Isle of Wight Freshwater Bay & Mottistone

September 2022

Walk 17 climbs the tussocky east ridge of Bannerdale Crags in the Lake District’s Northern Fells. Your uphill efforts are rewarded with this splendid view across the Eden Valley to the North Pennines.
Photo: David Marsh

1. Devon Fernworthy
2. Somerset Odcombe & Ham Hill
3. Gloucestershire Blakeney to Newnham

   UPDATE: Best to park at end in Newnham car park (GL14 1BH) and catch bus to start from nearby stop

4. West Sussex Cuckfield
5. Hampshire/Berkshire Ashmansworth & Walbury Hill
6. Kent West Peckham & Hurst Wood
7. Greater London Monken Hadley
8. Bedfordshire Ouse Valley Way
9. Herefordshire Wormelow Tump & Aconbury Hill
10. Warwickshire Studley
11. Staffordshire Lapley
12. Derbyshire Melbourne
13. Norfolk Blickling
14. Lincolnshire Alford & Rigsby
15. Lancashire Dunsop Valley
16. Cumbria Fairfield Horseshoe
17. Cumbria Bannerdale Crags & Bowscale Fell
18. West Yorkshire Pule Hill & Tunnel End
19. North Yorkshire Kirby Grindalythe
20. Tyne & Wear/County Durham Hendon to Seaham
21. Ceredigion/Pembrokeshire Cardigan & St Dogmaels
22. Gwynedd Arenig Fawr
23. Wrexham Glyn Ceiriog
24. Dumfries & Galloway Whita Hill
25. Dumfries & Galloway Potholm & Castle Hills
26. Perth & Kinross Schiehallion
27. Derbyshire Win Hill & Stanage Edge

August 2022

Walk 15 leads you around the shore of Buttermere in the Lake District.
Photo: David Marsh

1. Somerset Haddon Hill & Wimbleball Lake
2. Wiltshire Marden Henge

   UPDATE: Public transport: Buses 101/102 Devizes-Pewsey to Marden (Mon-Sat; www.salisburyreds.co.uk)

3. Hampshire Fritham & the Rufus Stone
4. Surrey Shepperton
5. Oxfordshire Swerford & Great Tew
6. Essex Hatfield Forest
7. Worcestershire Ombersely
8. Shropshire Bridgnorth
9. Derbyshire Kinder Plateau
10. Nottinghamshire Daneshill Lakes
11. Suffolk Felixstowe Ferry
12. Cambridgeshire Holme Fen
13. Greater Manchester Wardle & Crook Moor
14. Cumbria Windermere to Ambleside
15. Cumbria Buttermere & Crummock Water
16. East Yorkshire Bainton & Kilnwick
17. North Yorkshire Sutton Bank & Gormire Lake
18. Northumberland Bloodybush Edge & Yarnspath Law
19. Carmarthenshire/Ceredigion Llyn Brianne & Twm Sion Cati's Cave
20. Gwynedd Llyn Cwm Bychan & Llyn Eiddew-bach
21. Denbighshire Graig Fawr
22. Denbighshire Prestatyn & Gronant
23. North Lanarkshire Dumbreck Nature Reserve
24. Perth & Kinross Dunkeld & Birnam
25. Highland/Moray Loch Avon
26. County Antrim/County Down Lagan Towpath
27. Cornwall Padstow to Mawgan Porth