14 Jul 09, 11.16AM
Walking Class Hero: This side was made for you and me
The commentary at the top of every Walking Class Hero tells you ‘Basically if you can walk there it’ll be in this blog’ but this entry concerns a place where you mostly can’t walk.
Tags: Bayham Abbey, Billy Bragg, East Sussex, Kent, private, Ramblers, trespass, Walking Class Hero
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3 Jul 09, 16.11PM
Walking Class Hero: Cake Walk
Doesn’t the world seem a better place when the sun shines? It just makes you want to get out and go walking – provided of course you’ve slapped on your sun screen, plonked your hat on your head and perched your sunnies on your nose.
Tags: Add new tag, Cake, Canary Wharf, Cup Final, Cycling, football, Get Walking Day, Greenwich, Thames, Walking Class Hero
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25 Jun 09, 14.28PM
Phil Pickin: Ratty’s return
It looks like things are looking up for Britain’s water voles.
This compact and furry little animal was the model for Ratty in The Wind in The Willows. But, sadly, since the 1990s its numbers have fallen from around seven million [...]
Tags: Blogs, Cairngorms, conservation, Phil Pickin, reintroduction, River Wandle, Trossachs, water vole, waterways, Wildlife, Wildlife Trust
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11 Jun 09, 10.00AM
Chris Hatherill: Hopping the fence
Though not comparable in scope or scale, private urban garden squares are the city dweller’s equivalent of restricted land in the countryside: nice to look at over the fence – but frustratingly out-of-bounds. I know that most of London’s leafy [...]
Tags: access, gardens, guided walks, urban walks
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8 Jun 09, 16.50PM
Walking Class Hero: Doin’ the Lambeth Walk
At first sight a walk going from Lambeth North to Peckham seems to owe more to Will Self than William Blake but stay with me for a moment and I’ll try to explain…
Tags: Camberwell, Kennington, Lambeth, music, Peckham, Street art, Vauxhall, Will Self, William Blake
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29 May 09, 14.55PM
Tom Franklin: Leaping into the open
At Easter, I walked along the breathtaking Hadrian’s Wall. Again and again, as I climbed over stiles and went through gates along the route, I came across those small square discs with a brown circle that denote access land. Every [...]
Tags: access, countryside, Hadrian's Wall Path, Northumberland, Tom Franklin, walkers, walking
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28 May 09, 15.35PM
Cameron McNeish: Renewables rethink
With a decision imminent on the proposed Beauly-Denny powerline through the wilds of central Scotland, Cameron McNeish argues for a fresh approach to renewable energy…
Tags: Cameron McNeish, Environment, opinion, Wind farms
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26 May 09, 14.18PM
Christopher Somerville’s A-Z of walking: B
B is for Binoculars
Tags: Christopher Somerville, humour, opinion
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22 May 09, 11.48AM
Walking Class Hero: The ‘Recce’
About 40 minutes later we were at the base of Box Hill. Named after the many box trees found growing wild here this National Trust property is a well known beauty spot on the North Downs…
Tags: graffiti, group walks, guided walks, music, National Trust, North Downs, Surrey, Walking Class Hero, wine
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19 May 09, 15.45PM
Chris Stephens: Walls for all
Like motherhood and apple pie, everyone is in favour of dry stone walls. We enjoy seeing them and use them to promote the countryside, as well as to sell walking boots and rucksacks, and to recruit members to heritage organisations. But few, it seems, are currently in a position to pay for their maintenance or restoration…
Tags: Blogs, Chris Stephens, conservation, countryside, dry stone wall, heritage, opinion, Ramblers
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