February 2025

The finest walk in the Lakes? Alfred Wainwright certainly thought so. Try it out for yourself in Walk 27.

Photo: David Marsh

1. Devon Branscombe and Beer
2. Somerset Sand Point
3. Gloucestershire Old Sodbury
4. Wiltshire Cherhill White Horse
5. Oxfordshire Steeple Aston
6. Hertfordshire Benington
7. Surrey Knowle Park
8. Kent/East Sussex Isle of Oxney
9. Essex Burnham-on-Crouch
10. Suffolk Snape
11. Herefordshire Ewyas Harold
12. West Midlands Birmingham
13. Leicestershire Stonton Wyville
14. Derbyshire/South Yorkshire Longshaw
15. Cumbria Melmerby Fell
16. East Yorkshire North Newbald
17. North Yorkshire Yordas Cave
18. County Durham Castle Eden Walkway
19. Vale of Glamorgan Monknash to Nash Point
20. Pembrokeshire Preseli Hills
21. Ceredigion Penbryn and Llangrannog
22. Gwynedd Coed y Brenin
23. West Lothian Fauldhouse loop
24. Highland Ben Nevis via CMD Arete
25. Aberdeenshire Old Aberdeen
26. Aberdeenshire Greyhope
27. Cumbria Howtown to Glenridding

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January 2025

Walk 24 takes us into the Pentland Hills, just a stone's throw from Edinburgh.
Photo: Ralph Storer

1. Devon Overbecks & Bolt Head
2. Devon Bolberry and Hope Cove
3. Gloucestershire Guiting Power
4. West Sussex Kingley Vale and Stoughton
5. Greater London New Addington
6. Hertfordshire Saunderton & Chinnor
7. Bedfordshire Barton-le-Clay
8. Cambridgeshire Leighton Bromswold
9. Norfolk Thompson Common
10. Northamptonshire Ringstead & Woodford
11. Warwickshire Wootton Wawen to Stratford
12. Shropshire Carding Mill to Ratlinghope
13. Lancashire Mellor Knoll
14. Cumbria Whernside from Dent
15. Cumbria Whitbarrow
16. North Yorkshire Simon Howe
17. County Durham Baldersdale
18. Northumberland Yeavering Bell and Humbleton Hill
19. Gwent Llanmartin
20. Carmarthenshire/Pembrokeshire Amroth
21. Gwynedd Egryn Lights
22. Anglesey Benllech
23. South Lanarkshire Douglas loop
24. Lothian Allermuir Hill
25. Highland Cow Hill
26. Highland Loch Migdale
27. Staffordshire Lud’s Church and the Roaches

December 2024

Walk 27 this month serves up multiple spectacular Lake District views, including this cracker of Skiddaw from the ascent of Barrow.

Photo: David Marsh

1. Devon Ringmore and Bigbury
2. Dorset Sherborne
3. Gloucestershire Staunton and Buck Stone
4. Wiltshire Old Sarum
5. Bedfordshire Ampthill
6. Surrey Guildford
7. East Sussex Rye Harbour
8. Essex Manningtree
9. Suffolk Thurston and Rougham
10. Norfolk Sea Palling and Horsey
11. Northamptonshire Silverstone
12. Herefordshire Dorstone
13. Staffordshire Loynton Moss
14. Lancashire Darwen Tower
15. Cumbria Elterwater and Loughrigg Tarn
16. West Yorkshire Black Hill
17. North Yorkshire Malhamdale
18. County Durham Puddingthorn Edge
19. Northumberland Deadwater Fell
20. Carmarthenshire Laugharne
21. Powys/Shropshire Knighton and Knucklas
22. Powys/Shropshire Knighton to Stowe Hill
23. Gwynedd Llyn Nantlle Uchaf
24. Dumfries & Galloway Hart Fell via Devil's Beef Tub
25. Clackmannanshire River Devon Circular
26. Highland Skye's clearance villages
27. Cumbria The Coledale Round

November 2024

The serenity of this stretch of Cornish coastline hides a turbulent past. See Walk 1 for more.

Photo: Robert Hesketh

1. Cornwall Lansallos
2. Devon Wistman's Wood
3. Wiltshire Seend Ridge
4. Gloucestershire Soudley Ponds
5. Berkshire Chieveley
6. Hampshire Ropley
7. West Sussex Iping and Chithurst
8. Greater London West India Dock
9. Hertfordshire Lemsford
10. Cambridgeshire Barrington and Harlton
11. Norfolk Holkham Park
12. Warwickshire Shipston-on-Stour and Todenham
13. Warwickshire Brailes & the Sibfords
14. Shropshire Brown Clee Hill
15. Derbyshire Alsop en le Dale and Milldale
16. Cumbria Hutton Roof and Farleton Knott
17. Cumbria Whinlatter Tops
18. North Yorkshire Bolton Abbey and the Stryd
19. Northumberland St Cuthberts Cave
20. Monmouthshire Whitestone
21. Powys Grwyne Fechan Valley
22. conwy Llanfairfechan
23. dumfries & Galloway Corserine
24. Glasgow Campsie Fells
25. Highland Abriachan Woods
26. Highland Loch Torridon
27. Gwynedd Cadair Idris (Minffordd Path)

October 2024

This Elizabethan lodge was never finished, its owner dying before it was completed. A footpath heads right past it in Walk 11.
Photo: Phoebe Taplin

1. Cornwall Gorran Haven
2. Somerset Dunkery Beacon
3. Gloucestershire Berkeley
4. Wiltshire Urchfont
5. Oxfordshire Thame
6. Bedfordshire Woburn
7. West Sussex Graffham
8. Kent Detling and Thurnham
9. Suffolk Sudbury to Long Melford
10. Suffolk Lavenham
11. Northamptonshire Lyveden Way
12. Herefordshire Black Hill and Black Darren
13. Shropshire/Worcestershire Wyre Forest
14. Nottinghamshire Attenborough Reserve
15. Derbyshire Peter and Miller's Dale
16. Lancashire Whelp Stone Crag
17. Cumbria Oxen Park & Rusland Moor
18. Cumbria Croglin and Newbiggin
19. North Yorkshire Harome
20. Northumberland Alnwick to Alnmouth
21. Powys Cascob
22. Gwynedd Clogau Gold Mines
23. South Lanarkshire Falls of Clyde
24. Fife North Queensferry to Burntisland
25. Highland Beinn a Chaorainn
26. Isle of Skye Beinn Deargs & Glamaig
27. County Durham High Force & Cronkley Fell