Latest Walks

The 67km/42-mile Stour & Orwell Walk – which links up with the Suffolk Coast and Heaths Path at Felixstowe – goes around two of the most beautiful estuaries in East Anglia.

Hang your hat amid the sheer, isolated desolation of Whitendale Hanging Stones and – says the Ordnance Survey – you’re at the very centre of Great Britain and its outlying islands.

The lovely valley of St John’s in the Vale is one of the quieter areas of the Lake District, the fells
either side of it far less frequented than many elsewhere.

The Falls of Foyers are a mustsee on any visit to Loch Ness. Robert Burns, visiting the area on the then newly built military Wade road, called the Falls a “horrid cauldron”.

The Crinan Canal is frequently called the most beautiful short-cut in Scotland: the short-cut being between the Sound of Jura at Crinan and Loch Fyne at Ardrishaig, which avoids a long diversion around the Kintyre peninsula for boats sailing between the Clyde estuary and the Inner Hebrides.

Rhayader lies at the heart of Wales, situated in the beautiful upper Wye valley. With the nearby elan valley reservoirs – known as the lakeland of Wales – and the surrounding quiet rolling hills, it makes an ideal centre for walkers.

The South Dorset Ridgeway, 27km/17 miles long, is the new name for what used to be known as the Inland Coast Path. It’s an alternative to a stretch of the South West Coast Path between West Bexington and Osmington Mills, taking an inland route and avoiding the built-up area around Wey- mouth.

The New Forest is one of the largest-surviving swathes of ancient forest in South East England. For centuries it was a royal hunting ground, and then a major source of ship-building timber for the Royal Navy.

‘Clunton and Clunbury, Clungunford and Clun/Are the quietest places under the sun’ are the oft-quoted lines from AE Housman’s A Shropshire Lad.

Stretching from the Dyfi Estuary in the north to the Teifi in the south, the 96km/60-mile Ceredigion Coast Path was officially opened in 2008.