Walks Archive

The 148km/91-mile Llŷn Coastal Path begins at Caernarfon and goes round the beautiful north and south coasts of the Llŷn peninsula, before finishing at Porthmadog.

Ilmington lies within the most northerly part of the Cotswolds AONB, seven miles south of Stratford-upon-Avon.

Cairnsmore of Fleet, at 711m/ 2,333ft, is the highest point along the Galloway coast and provides a stunning vantage point and a window on the wilder, remoter upland areas of Galloway.

Far from the flat, arable land that typifies the rest of the county, the Lincolnshire Wolds are a beautiful range of rolling hills running from the River Humber in the north to Spilsby in the south.

The village of Bratton Fleming lies to the north-east of Barnstaple, just a few miles outside Exmoor National Park, in lovely, quiet, rolling countryside.

One of England’s great privately-owned stately homes, Penshurst Place, stands in the picturesque rolling countryside of the High Weald AONB.

In 1956, the Gower Peninsula was the first area in Britain to be designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

Lochnagar is one of the truly classic British mountain walks, its renowned brooding cliffs never failing to take the breath away.

The North Pennines is one of the remotest places in England. A high, wild, bleak landscape of heather moorland and blanket peat, it is sometimes referred to as ‘England’s last wilderness’.

One argument that can never be settled is that over which is the most beautiful of the Yorkshire Dales.