As any experienced walkers knows, the easiest way to find your way around is using a map – so we thought we'd add walk's ever-growing selection of walking routes around Britain to a handy Google Map for you to browse. We've also hidden a few features around the British Isles, so have fun exploring!
The lower reaches of Rye Dale are protected by steep banks of mixed woodland that keep the car away. ...
For me, this walk is less about the summits, more about the route to reach them.
Like many of those quiet little villages which straddle the border of England and Wales, Gladestry acts...
‘Krugers – Next Pub Boston’ says the sign, pointing down the road to the local hostelry, the last indeed...
MASTILES Lane was a key part of a drovers’ super-highway in the eighteenth century, the M6 of its time. Before then it was in use by monks from Fountains Abbey more than 20 miles away, linking the grange at Kilnsey with sheep pastures on Malham Moor. Earlier still, the Romans pounded the path in their...
This walk didn’t begin on the South Downs, but in front of a drawing hung on a wall in the Towner art gallery in Eastbourne. The almost angry lines of the charcoal, in the hands of artist Julian Le Bas, added a depth and gravity to the most atmospherically named place on the South Downs: Devil’s Dyke...
The combination of mountain bikes and mountain walking is a good one in an area like the Cairngorms and after an embarrassing day trying to negotiate my bike down one of the easier mountain bike courses at Laggan’s Wolftrax trails I reckoned I should stick to roads and forest trails.
So instead of ...
I was in the Lake District to give the Wainwright Centenary Lecture, a celebration of the legacy of Alfred Wainwright, England’s most iconic fell wanderer.
Wainwright’s favourite fell was Haystacks, above the head of Buttermere. “For a man trying to get a persistent worry out of his mind, the top of...
While most hillwalkers will visit the fells of the Lake District at least once in their hillwalking career England can boast many other very fine hillwalking areas. The Yorkshire dales and the Peak District are the obvious alternatives but in the deep south Dartmoor and Exmoor attract walkers throughout the year. The coastline between Minehead and Plymouth attracts many walkers and the 600-mile South West Coastal Path is a perennial favourite.
The Principality of Wales is a walkers paradise. Take the wonderful coastline, from the Gower to the excellent Pembrokeshire Coast Path and the hills of south Wales - the Brecons and the Black Mountains and then, of course, there is Snowdonia, containing 15 mountain peaks over 3000 feet and the highest hill in England and Wales, Snowdon. Wales has something for everyone, from the climber to the rambler.
Ireland boasts some superb hillwalking and backpacking terrain but it's potential is limited because of a lack of access to many areas. The most popular areas include the McGillicuddy's Reeks, the mountains of Mayo and Clare and on the east coast, the Wicklow hills .
In terms of mountain walking and backpacking there is nowhere to compare with the highlands of Scotland. This small country boasts 283 Munros, the Scottish hills over the 3000ft /914m and 221 Corbetts, the hills between 2500ft/762 and 2999ft/914m. The diversity of mountain landscape in Scotland is astonishing, from the rolling hills of the Borders to the awe-inspiring outline of the Skye Cuillin.
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