If the mapmakers had no information as to what might be in an area of map, they filled it with monsters; ship-devouring kraken; huge whales with sharp teeth, Neptune on the warpath, or viciously gigantic mermaids.

If one thing should exercise an island race even more than woodlands, it is the coast and the sea…

Following a sustained campaign by the Ramblers and its members, the government last year passed the landmark Marine and Coastal Access Act. Now, we’re calling on all members and walk readers to help protect your coastline by taking action…

Find out which candidates have signed up to the Ramblers Walking Manifesto

After more than 50 years of campaigning, new legislation is finally giving the public access rights to almost the entire English coast. David Foster explores the intriguing background to this historic victory for walkers…

Hundreds of miles of inaccessible and out-of-bounds coastline are set to be permanently opened up to the public for the first time under the new Marine and Coastal Access Act…

MPs are set to get even more stick this week, this time from Britain’s biggest walking charity…

The skies above Westminster were recently filled with kites as people showed their support for a new law that would create a continuous walking route around the English coast…

Weymouth, of course, is on the South West Coast Path and here many visitors and locals are aghast that the rest of the country doesn’t have the same right of access as enjoyed in the south west. We really shouldn’t be this complacent though because many of our national trails and regional routes rely on permissive access and 10% of the 1014 km (630 miles) South West Coast Path is not legally secure.

The Ramblers’ kite-flying campaign for better coastal access took off – quite literally – with a crowd of over 30 supporters pulling kite-strings in front of BBC news reporters at Lepe Country Park…