Spring 2024

At the eastern edge of Bodmin Moor in Cornwall is a series of impressive rock formations. See Walk 1 for more.

Photo: Roger Butler

1. Cornwall The Cheesewring
2. Devon Dartmouth
3. Somerset South Stoke
4. Gloucestershire/Wiltshire South Cerney & Ashton Keynes
5. West Sussex Pagham Harbour
6. Kent Shoreham
7. Essex Great Chesterford
8. Hertfordshire Thundridge
9. Oxfordshire Wytham Woods
10. Lincolnshire Stamford's Four Counties walk
11. Lincolnshire Burghley Park
12. Worcestershire Monkwood
13. Northamptonshire Kislingbury
14. Leicestershire Leicester to Sileby
15. Cumbria Crinkle Crags via Little Stand
16. Cumbria Riggindale Round
17. West Yorkshire Fairburn Ings
18. North Yorkshire Speeton Sands
19. Northumberland Warkworth to Alnmouth
20. Carmarthenshire Carreg Cennen Castle
21. Powys Kerry Ridgeway
22. Conwy Colwyn Bay
23. Stirling Callander
24. Highland Beinn Bhan
25. Outer Hebrides RSPB Balranald
26. Derry/Londonderry Derry Walls & River Foyle
27. Gwynedd Snowdon (via South Ridge)

March 2024

This little church is one of the tiniest in the UK, and can be found in Walk 17.

Photo: Tom Bailey

1. Cornwall Cremyll Ferry and Maker
2. Devon East Prawle
3. Somerset Meare to Glastonbury
4. Wiltshire Bradford-on-Avon
5. Gloucestershire Wyck Rissington and Icomb
6. Oxfordshire Henley-on-Thames and Greys Court
7. Hertfordshire Great Kimble
8. Buckinghamshire Cosgrove and Old Wolverton
9. Cambridgeshire Alconbury
10. Suffolk Moulton and Gazeley
11. Herefordshire Cradley
12. Worcestershire Stourport-on-Severn
13. Staffordshire Gnosall and Doley Common
14. Lancashire Clougha Pike
15. Cumbria Place Fell
16. Cumbria Sheffield Pike & Stybarrow Dodd
17. East Yorkshire Wold Newton
18. North Yorkshire Nawton
19. County Durham Lartington
20. Pembrokeshire Broad Haven
21. Ceredigion Tre'r Ddol
22. Conwy Capel Curig
23. Stirling Conic Hill
24. Highland Schiehallion
25. Aberdeenshire Forvie National Nature Reserve
26. Moray Nairn East Beach and Culbin Forest
27. Surrey Gibbet Hill & the Devil’s Punch Bowl

February 2024

The remains of this Norman castle are free to visit and situated deep in the Shropshire Hills. Find them in Walk 13.

Photo: Simon Whaley

1. Devon Princetown and Foggintor Quarry
2. Dorset Maiden Castle
3. Somerset Withypool and Landacre Bridge
4. Gloucestershire Leckhampton Hill
5. Hampshire Sway and Brockenhurst
6. Essex Epping to Chipping Ongar
7. Greater London Hampstead to Manor House
8. Buckinghamshire/Hertfordshire Denham
9. Oxfordshire Wheatley & Horspath
10. Suffolk Martlesham
11. Cambridgeshire Wimpole Hall
12. Herefordshire Hoarwithy
13. Shropshire Clun Valley
14. Shropshire Bury Ditches & Soudley Wood
15. Lancashire Slaidburn & Dunsop Head
16. Cumbria Green Crag and Harter Fell
17. Cumbria Lowther Castle & Divock Moor
18. South Yorkshire Shire Brook Valley
19. North Yorkshire Newgate Bank
20. County Durham Bowes Fell & God's Bridge
21. Powys (BB) Talybont Reservoir
22. Wrexham Minera
23. Denbighshire/Flintshire Moel Findeg
24. Midlothian North Esk Reservoir
25. Highland Grantown-on-Spey & Anagach Woods
26. Moray Findhorn Bay & Beach
27. Cumbria Western Howgills

January 2024

Where might you find this spectacular volcanic plug? Find out in Walk 23.

Photo: Tom Bailey

1. Cornwall Padstow to Wadebridge
2. Cornwall Port Isaac & Port Quin
3. Devon Budleigh Salteron & Otterton
4. Dorset Kimmeridge & Swyre Head
5. Gloucestershire Chipping Campden to Moreton-in-Marsh
6. Surrey Farley Green
7. Kent Sutton Valence
8. Berkshire Great Shefford
9. Oxfordshire Duns Tew
10. Worcestershire Worcestershire Beacon
11. Herefordshire Brimfield
12. Warwickshire Claverdon & Lowsonford
13. Suffolk Darsham to Halesworth
14. Norfolk Salhouse
15. Cheshire Wrenbury
16. Cumbria Latterbarrow (from Hawkshead)
17. West/North Yorkshire Towton Battlefield and Saxton
18. County Durham Whorlton to Winston
19. Northumberland South Tyne Valley
20. Powys (BB) Mynydd Llangorse
21. Gwynedd Llanfihangel-y-Pennant
22. Denbighshire St Asaph circular
23. Stirling Dumgoyne
24. Aberdeenshire (Cairngorms) Ballater loops
25. Highland Loch Kinellan
26. Outer Hebrides Loch Druidibeag
27. Cumbria Ennerdale Water

December 2023

Is this the most filmed outdoor location in Britain? Find out more in Walk 6.

Photo: Tom Bailey

1. Devon Kingston & the Erme Estuary
2. Somerset/Devon Pinkery and the Mole's Chamber
3. Dorset West Bay
4. Gloucestershire Northleach
5. Hampshire East Meon
6. Surrey Frensham & Hankley Commons
7. Greater London King's Cross to Clapton Pond
8. Buckinghamshire Lane End to Turville
9. Oxfordshire/Buckinghamshire Mixbury, Finmere and Westbury
10. Cambridgeshire Cambridge to Grantchester
11. Cambridgeshire Fen Drayton
12. Herefordshire/Gloucestershire Symonds Yat
13. Shropshire Mitchell's Fold Stone Circle
14. Derbyshire Windgather Rocks
15. Lancashire Cockersand Abbey
16. Cumbria Carnforth to Arnside
17. Cumbria Deer Hills & High Pike
18. West Yorkshire Todmorden to Hebden Bridge
19. East Yorkshire Harpham & Kilham
20. Northumberland Darden Lough
21. Rhondda Cynon Taf Merthyr Vale
22. Ceredigion RSPB Ynys-hir
23. Gwynedd Craig yr Allor
24. South Lanarkshire Fiddler's Gill
25. Perth & Kinross Kinnoull Hill
26. Highland Loch Glass
27. Nottinghamshire Sherwood Forest

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