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Ramblers Route in depth: Out in droves

Ramblers Route in depth: Out in droves

Friday, February 22nd, 2013

The droving of huge herds of livestock for hundreds of miles to market was once a common sight across pre-industrial Britain, and the drovers’ trails they created offer some fine upland walking today. The Kerry Ridgeway among the Welsh Borders is one of the finest, so we sent Julian Rollins – without the livestock – to explore it for himself…

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Arrow Valley Trail

Arrow Valley Trail

Tuesday, December 11th, 2012

This new walking route follows the 56km/35-mile course of the enchanting River Arrow…

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Headwaters: Walking to British River Sources

Headwaters: Walking to British River Sources

Thursday, November 29th, 2012

Underneath all the trappings of urban development, with its lattice of roads and rail, it’s easy to forget that Britain has a far more ancient and prevalent network running across it…

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Walk & talk with Sara Maitland

Walk & talk with Sara Maitland

Thursday, November 29th, 2012

Author Sara Maitland won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1978 for her first novel, Daughter of Jerusalem, and found more recent fame with 2008’s A Book of Silence. Susan Gray talks to her about her new book exploring Britain’s forests, and asks how nature connects us all to the magical and divine…

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One foot in the grave

One foot in the grave

Tuesday, August 28th, 2012

With Hallowe’en upon us, Mark Rowe explores the morbid history of some of Britain’s most scenic ‘coffin trails’ and picks the best urban cemeteries for a ghoulish autumnal stroll…

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Walk & Talk with Neil Oliver

Walk & Talk with Neil Oliver

Tuesday, August 28th, 2012

Archaeologist and TV presenter Neil Oliver talks to Susan Gray about his new series on the Vikings, how walking connects him to the past, and his love affair with the coast…

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Walking Class Hero: 100 not out

Walking Class Hero: 100 not out

Friday, August 17th, 2012

As the immediate post-Olympic era seems set to revive the debate about the Big Society, especially as the 17,000 volunteer Games Makers were such a resounding success, it seems self-evident to me that we can learn a lot from organisations like Morley College and the Ramblers.

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Aida Goitom Aregai: a lasting legacy

Aida Goitom Aregai: a lasting legacy

Wednesday, August 8th, 2012

The Olympic Opening Ceremony invited us all to become part of history at an historic moment, and I hope that these guided walks do the same. I hope we create a wave of people young and old that will cherish these local areas: a lasting legacy of Our History rather than Them vs. Us, West vs. East, London vs. The Rest of the Country, or even Poor vs. Rich

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Benedict Southworth: Walking in partnership

Benedict Southworth: Walking in partnership

Monday, July 9th, 2012

The Ramblers played a key role in establishing National Trails. Tom Stephenson, the first Ramblers Secretary, envisioned “a long green trail from the Peak to the Cheviots…which the feet of grateful pilgrims would, with the passing years, engrave on the face of the land.”

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Eugene Suggett: Oldest inscriptions upon the land

Eugene Suggett: Oldest inscriptions upon the land

Monday, June 18th, 2012

‘Roads, lanes, paths,’ wrote another twentieth-century poet, Geoffrey Grigson, ‘we use them without reflecting how they are some of man’s oldest inscriptions upon the landscape’. It’s time we reflected

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