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In every issue of _Country Walking_ there are 27 cut-out-and-go route cards at the back of the magazine. Each and every one is researched, walked, written and photographed by an avid walker. If you have ever wanted to share a great route with us and wondered how to go about it, you’ve come to the right place.

We’re always looking for potential new routes contributors who are passionate and knowledgeable about walking and the outdoors. If you can write clearly, concisely and colourfully, and take good photos too, we want to hear from you. You don’t have to be a trail-ticking, peak-bagging superwalker. But you must have an eye for detail and a knack for research. Map reading proficiency and walk planning know-how are essential.

The great thing about _Country Walking_ is that we can publish such a wide variety of walks. We can have a walk up Snowdon on one page and a flat seaside walk on the next. The majority of our routes are circular walks, though we do publish linear routes as long as there are good transport links between the start and finish. As a guideline, we try and keep most of our routes between 5 and 12 miles in length.

**Drop us a line at :a[editorial@countrywalking.co.uk]{href='mailto:editorial@countrywalking.co.uk' target='_blank' rel='noreferrer noopener'}** **with a few suggestions of some walks you’d like to provide (a brief outline is fine, but please include the name the county in each case) and we’ll get back to you!**

_We’re happy to provide more information about writing routes for Country Walking (including our fees and freelance contributor guidelines) upon enquiry. Before we can commission a route, you’ll need to sign Bauer Media’s freelance contributor agreement._

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Every issue of Country Walking comes with 27 new route cards covering the whole country. But we also offer a few routes from our archives in our features each month, and this is where you can download them for free. Just find the issue name you want (scroll down for older issues) and then browse the galleries to find the walk you're looking for. Click on the link and it will open as a PDF in a new window for you to download and print. Enjoy every step!

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## Country Walking Bonus Routes - August 2025


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<p>Berney Arms</p>
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<p>Henley-in-Arden</p>
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<p>Hope to Edale</p>
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<p>Ingleborough</p>
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<p>Pen-y-ghent</p>
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<p>Todmorden to Hebden Bridge</p>
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<p>Whitby</p>
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<p>Ben Cruachan</p>
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<p>Ben Vrackie</p>
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<p>Fionn Bheinn</p>
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<p>Fuar Tholl</p>
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<p>Amberley</p>
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<p>Beaulieu Road</p>
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<a href="https://images.bauerhosting.com/marketing/sites/27/2025/10/coombe-hill.pdf?fm=pdf" target="_blank">
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<p>Coombe Hill</p>
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<a href="https://images.bauerhosting.com/marketing/sites/27/2025/10/high-willhays.pdf?fm=pdf" target="_blank">
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<p>High Willhays</p>
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<p>Garth Hill</p>
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<p>Llandovery to Cynghordy</p>
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<p>Y Llethr</p>
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<p>Barrisdale to Inverie</p>
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<p>Crundale</p>
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<p>Farleton Fell</p>
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<p>Kinloch Hourn to Barrisdale</p>
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<p>Addlebrough</p>
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<p>Aran Range</p>
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## **Your companion to discover a more beautiful Britain.**

We believe walking is the key to unlocking a world of wonder, happiness and health, and it’s a vision we’re thrilled to share with tens of thousands of readers! Join their number and become a :a[Country Walking subscriber]{href='https://www.greatmagazines.co.uk/country-walking-magazine?utm_source=walk1000miles.co.uk&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=bau_countrywalking' target='_blank' rel='noreferrer noopener'} today. You’ll pay less than the shop price, qualify for a half-price subscription to OS Maps AND be the first to hear from us every month.

Your companion to discover a more beautiful Britain.

We believe walking is the key to unlocking a world of wonder, happiness and health, and it’s a vision we’re thrilled to share with tens of thousands of readers! Join their number and become a Country Walking subscriber today. You’ll pay less than the shop price, qualify for a half-price subscription to OS Maps AND be the first to hear from us every month.

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For the 2026 challenge, progress trackers are available to purchase via the online shop, with the February issue of Country Walking (in shops 6th Jan) or via our exclusive subscription offer for Walk 1000 Milers - 3 issues for £5+FREE tracker+FREE 2026 Country Walking Calendar.

Medals are also available to purchase via the online shop from Spring 2026.

Enter your miles walked so far to get your current daily target average required.

**#walk1000miles is the free challenge for everyone, created by the UK's biggest-selling walkers' magazine Country Walking. It encourages you to walk about an hour a day to achieve an amazing total. Believe it or not, you can do it in your lunch hour.**

Depending on how you put it, walking 1000 miles sounds like a towering achievement or a trivial effort. It’s enough to see you across the Gobi desert, yet 2.74 miles a day hardly seems worth writing home about. Both things are true. There’s nothing back-breaking or SAS-impressing about it, and yet it’s something only a vanishingly small proportion of the population can say they have done. And so only a few will be able to vouch for the fact that it _will_ change your life. You may not think there’s much wrong with your life as it is (I didn’t). But after completing 1000 miles in 12 months I feel _miles_ better than I have in a decade. Huge things happen by tiny increments after all. It’s just a question of doing it.

It's honesty-based and you're free to walk wherever and however you like. Country Walking magazine and the challenge community centred around walk1000miles.co.uk are here to motivate, celebrate and to provide advice, as well as bring you free content and goodies with fantastic prizes from our partners. Sign up here now to get updates, exclusive content, competitions and discounts, and get ready to enjoy a life-changing year – one step at a time!

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## Make the greatest investment in your health and happiness

Join the challenge that changes lives one step at a time – no matter how unfit you are or how unlikely it sounds, you CAN walk 1000 miles!

Brought to you by the UK’s best-selling walking magazine, Country Walking, walk just 2.74 miles per day and you can clock up an amazing 1000 mile total in 12 months from the day you start. It’s an incredible achievement that will transform your health and happiness and open up new possibilities in life.

Register free to take part and you’ll get our **monthly Country Walking newsletter** bursting with inspiration and support for your challenge, and access to competitions to win prizes from our partners.

Ready to change your life, one step at a time?

NB: Please ensure you tick the first box in the sign up form below – otherwise we **can't contact you** with newsletters, or register your participation.

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**Important**: add email@news.bauermedia.co.uk to your contacts under the name ‘Country Walking’ to avoid your newsletters, getting caught in your spam filter.

**If you have signed up in previous years, you have already given us permission to contact you. This could mean that re-entering your details into the form might not generate a new sign-up email. This is because you’re already on the list.**

If you’re experiencing any issues signing up, please contact us walk1000miles@countrywalking.co.uk.

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3 Guernsey  
4 Alderney  
5 Cornwall  
6 Devon  
7 Somerset  
8 Dorset  
9 Wiltshire  
10 Hampshire  
11 Isle of Wight  
12 West Sussex  
13 Surrey  
14 East Sussex  
15 Kent  
16 Greater London  
17 City of London  
18 Berkshire  
19 Bristol  
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43 Greater Manchester  
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45 Lancashire  
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47 East Riding  
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49 Isle of Man  
50 Cumbria  
51 Durham  
52 Tyne & Wear  
53 Northumberland  
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55 West Glamorgan  
56 Mid Glamorgan  
57 Gwent  
58 Dyfed  
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99 Caithness  
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Whether you’re throwing sticks for your dog, kitted out in fancy dress for a charity challenge, hopping across stepping stones with your kids, or heading for a country pub with a gang of mates, there’s a lot more to walking than just chalking off miles and boosting physical fitness. For a start, just think of the fun places you can visit in Britain if you walk the 2.74 miles a day required to hit 1000 miles in 12 months.

You could eat freshly-baked cakes in Snowdon’s summit cafe, walk the Gruffalo Trail on Forestry Commission nature reserves, paddle in the sea anywhere on our 6,000 miles of coastline, splash through muddy puddles, and have picnics everywhere from windswept moors to quaint Cotswolds riversides. You can play games of nature bingo or eye-spy while you walk, hunt for the millions of geocaches stashed all over the UK, take selfies, collect mementos like feathers and shells, use a pocket guide to ID birds and trees – the list is endless. It doesn’t matter if your feet stink, your hair gets plastered to your forehead, your belly hangs over your waistband or your walking boots look like their belong in the 1950s.

That’s the beauty of walking – anything goes, and all that matters is getting outside and enjoying yourself. You’ll forge stronger friendships through hours spent on footpaths and trails, connect with your kids in ways you didn’t think possible, and – possibly most fun of all – gorge yourself on sugary treats while you walk and giant pub meals at the end of the day, all in the name of fuelling the day’s exercise.   A few years ago, a video called ‘DofE Mud Jump Fail’ was uploaded to YouTube, showing a teenage girl with a heavy rucksack trying to jump across a bog on a Duke of Edinburgh’s Award expedition. Of course, she tripped over, face-planted, and got coated from head to toe in mud. She laughed hysterically, as did every member of her expedition group, and probably every one of the 1.8 million people who have since viewed it online. That video’s a reminder of everything that’s fun about walking. Laughter, friendship, the pure joy of nature, getting out of your usual cozy comfort zone, and the ability to forget all about the pressures of everyday life to just giggle your way through a few muddy miles.

Sign up to #walk1000miles today, join our Facebook group, meet some fun people, and let’s have fun together for the next 12 months.

Walking 1000 miles does you a power of good – but you can magnify that power many times over by adding a fund-raising dimension to your challenge. You might take on a fantastic challenge-within-challenge or you might seek per-mile sponsorship for your 1000 miles. You might start putting your pocket change in a jar after every walk. However you choose to do it, charitable giving can extend and enlarge not only the enjoyment but the impact of your challenge – something that many find makes a great feeling even more memorable.

Millions of kids watch their parents wearing Fitbits and Apple Watches to record amazing milestones like 10,000 steps a day, and think they could never do it. But they can – easily. In fact, research shows that 6-11-year-old kids do about 10,000-15,000 steps on a school day; adolescents do 10,000-11,700. They can hit incredible mileages! Yet British kids, on average, spend more than 20 hours a week online – swiping smartphone screens, playing consoles, streaming movies. Government research shows 74% of them spend less than 60 minutes a day outside, which is less than prison inmates....

According to The National Trust, a ‘Nature Deficit Disorder’ is creating serious hidden issues among children like diminished senses, attention difficulties, higher rates of illness, and even the loss of basic – and vital – everyday functions like learning how to safely cross roads. Walking is free, simple and one of the easiest ways to get active as a family. Hitting 1000 miles in a year might seem like an impossible target now, but make a few small changes to your weekly routine and you’ll soon see the miles pile up. Ditch the car and walk to school, go for a short stroll after dinner, take stairs instead of lifts, meet up with other families who like spending time outdoors. Short, simple activities can quickly make a big difference.

You can define the #walk1000miles challenge as a family however you want – count every step of every day; just count miles you walk together as a family; or only count ’boots-on’ miles when you’re hitting countryside trails. Walking 1000 miles in a year breaks down to 2.74 miles a day. So think about this – 10,000 steps is roughly five miles for adults, so even little legs can be well on target to smash that milestone by simply leading an active life. So make those little lifestyle changes, plan regular walks and – most importantly -– keep getting outside as a family. You don’t have to walk up mountains or trudge across boggy moors (although both are great!) – just explore your local woods or country park, or take the dog for slightly longer walks. Make each walk fun and engaging. Take plenty of snacks, play games of nature bingo, hunt for creepy-crawlies, jump in muddy puddles, skim stones, climb trees, paddle in rivers – all those great things you loved doing as a kid. The most important thing is just to get out and walk as a family, and together you could achieve something amazing.

Walking is a fantastic way to move more, protect your health, improve how you feel and achieve the body you want. Walking helps you maintain a healthy weight happily, gets the heart pumping faster, makes you feel more energetic and improves your mood. Over time, it can even help to lower the risk of serious illnesses like heart disease and type 2 diabetes. And as well as bringing all the benefits of more vigorous activity, it’s also great because you can do it anywhere and it won’t cost you a penny!

If you’re on a weight-loss journey and thinking of signing up for #walk1000miles you’re in luck: research shows that being physically active on a regular basis is equal in importance to eating a healthy balanced diet to successful weight-loss maintenance – and 100% of dieters polled said doing #walk1000miles made their weightloss journey a happier one. Whether it’s walking to meet a friend, stepping out of the office at lunchtime, walking around your local shopping centre or taking the dog to the park, there are lots of ways you can build up those miles. Encouraging friends and family members to feel as good as you do and build activity into their daily life will be of huge benefit too, and if you do it together you’re more likely to stick to it. More than 50% of Slimming World members who are active influence their partners, friends and family to get more active too.

'Helped my depression and I lost weight' says Shaun Garrett, 49; 'I feel so much happier – I'm a completely different person' says Julia Martin; 'Really helped me stay motivated to get out there and see so much of our beautiful countryside, and massively helped to keep my anxiety and depression under control" says Mark Taylor, 33. The experience of challengers confirms the science: regular walking boosts confidence, creativity, mood and is at least as effective as medicine at treating mild to moderate depression. Bust out your boots and find your happy.

Peace of mind, positivity, better perspective – and most of all just massively enjoyable. Walking 1000 miles isn’t just about the physical benefits, it will also do wonders for your mental wellbeing. Walking has been proven to lift your mood, boost self-esteem and improve sleep quality. It’s a well-known fatigue buster, while also reducing stress hormones and levels of anxiety. The charity Healthy Minds says physically active people have a 30% reduced risk of becoming depressed, and that staying active while suffering from mental illness can help you recover more quickly. The benefits for older walkers are even greater, with walking known to improve cognitive function, memory, attention levels and reduce the risk of dementia. In October 2018, doctors in Scotland’s Shetland Islands started prescribing walking to patients. As part of the ‘Nature Prescriptions’ project,10 surgeries across the Shetlands archipelago are now authorised to treat illnesses including stress with rambles, beach walks and birdwatching trips around the islands. As well as the obvious physical benefits of regular exercise, NHS Scotland believes that getting out into nature and connecting with local surroundings will lead to improved mental health.

So basically, a morning dog walk or stroll to work will keep you feeling happy all day!

Over the past few years, Country Walking has been inundated with wonderful stories from #walk1000milers who’ve trounced bad moods, grown in confidence, stopped worrying about the little things in life, and become happier and more determined. They’ve told us the challenge has kept them motivated, helped combat depression, given them courage to try new things, boosted positivity and provided a massive feeling of achievement. Walking is also an excellent way to meet new people and can be great for your social life. If you’re looking for people to share your challenge with, search for locally organised health walks, contact your local Ramblers group, or join our Facebook group and start chatting to like-minded people. Most importantly, just go for a walk and enjoy yourself. Forget about work, money and all the other stresses of modern life. Just put one foot in front of the other for an hour a day, listen to the birds, marvel at your local landscape, watch the sun set, and have a bloody great time!

The White to Dark Way is a sensational 27-mile trail through some of the very best scenery in the Peak District.

It’s called the White to Dark because it takes you from the limestone-rich dales of the White Peak, up to the mighty gritstone scarps of the Dark Peak, starting in the historic town of Bakewell and finishing in the village of Hope, in the beautiful Hope Valley.

It’s designed to be walked over three days, with overnight stops in Litton and Hathersage.

The **Monsal Trail** – a former railway trackbed (with walkable tunnels) leading to the incredible viewpoint of Monsal Head

Gorgeous **Cressbrook Dale**, home of the remarkable **Peter’s Stone**

The historic village of **Eyam**, whose residents quarantined themselves in 1666 to save others from the Great Plague

The iconic escarpment of **Stanage Edge**

The great sweep of **Ladybower Reservoir**

…and a final flourish on the summit of **Win Hill**.

Plus all sorts of hidden delights along the way – and some really lovely pubs and cafés too.

On this page you can find all the details to help you walk the trail. So take a look, get planning, and **welcome to the White to Dark!**

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Take a look at some of your favourite memories from ten years of a phenomenal journey...

My favourite memory was the New Year’s Eve virtual mile in 2017 (a mile walked by challengers across the world at the same time), my first year of the challenge. I walked it on a beach in Northumberland at 4pm UK time and held the moon in my hand. It was really special knowing that wherever we 1000-milers were, we shared that mile and the moon. **Rachel Kirk**

Without doubt, it was my first mountain walk – Snowdon in July 2017. It was the year I joined Walk1000Miles. The weather was perfect, the mountain almost free of people (I started early!). And all because I happened across a copy of Country Walking magazine in a shop whilst browsing for something to read. The rest is (my) history – 14,530 miles and counting. **Richard Crooks**

Walk1000Miles and Country Walking have inspired me to try hiking in places I might not otherwise have done. Just last week I climbed Pendle Hill (557m), which is quite a feat for a 60-year-old from Norfolk. My favourite memory and best achievement by far. **Michael Crouch**

I think a favourite memory was in 2021 when I signed up to walk the Virtual London Marathon… OK, I didn't quite get to 26 miles, but I was very proud of the 19 miles I did manage around the Vale of Glamorgan before being beaten by fading light. **Linda Ball**

Encouraging my friend Anna to do Walk1000Miles as well, and now she’s as obsessed as me! We have had some wonderful walks together – the West Highland Way, Hadrian’s Wall and the South Downs Way – as well as walking the white villages of the Ronda in southern Spain. We’re both mid-60s now and hope we have many more years ahead of us. It’s such a joy to see someone else love it like you do. **Sue Waton**

My favourite memory was the biggest ever Badger Meeting (‘badgers’ is how some Walk1000Milers like to refer to themselves, on account of the hallowed Walk1000Miles badge) to climb Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon) – 142 people from across in the UK coming together because of little old me. Everyone who climbed reached the summit and told me afterwards in the pub that they had a fantastic time! **Susan Miller**

Climbing Yr Wyddfa/Snowdon in 2023 with my eldest daughter. Ten years ago, I barely walked anywhere. I found this challenge in 2017 after the loss of my son and haven't looked back. I've done hundreds of walks in some beautiful surroundings but nothing will beat the sense of accomplishment on reaching that summit. **Janina Wiles**

Circumnavigating the Isle of Wight a couple of years ago and clambering down chines so steep we couldn’t see the bottom. I never dreamed I'd ever do anything like that. The part I remember most is walking from the Needles to Tennyson Down with a clear blue sky overhead and turquoise sea to our right. Fabulous. **Denni Morrison**

Walking the Kett's Way in Norfolk with my friend Barbara. Just over 19 miles on a lovely summer's day. **Maggie Baldwin**

My favourite memory dates back ten years ago to September 2015, when I completed my first 1000 miles. Back then there was no Facebook group, just me and my trusty spreadsheet of miles. Little did I know it was going to change my life for the better, both mentally and physically. Within a few years I had made many friends, joined various badger meets and started leading a few of my own. I love this challenge and group – Walk1000Miles is amazing! **Richard Inns**

For me it has to be spending time with my seven-year-old Maya Bee doing the Seven Hills of Edinburgh – from her big smile of pride on her first trig to her excitement on completing the challenge. Having her walking with me on my Walk1000Miles challenge has been an absolute blast. This wee soul is a true Golden Badger, with the drive and determination to keep going. Well done Maya! **Scruffy John Murphy**

Walking (and a bit of crawling) to the Megatron, a storm drain under the streets of Sheffield, is definitely my favourite memory. It was a unique walk which the majority of locals don't even know about. Above us, people were going about their daily lives not knowing we were walking around beneath their feet. Such great fun! **Katrina Scott**

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