Country Walking Magazine shows you the best of British walks: the biggest views, the hidden gems, the sea cliffs and the mountain summits. All our features come complete with superb writing, inspiring photography and step-by-step instructions so you can follow every footpath yourself. In every issue, you’ll find: - In-depth stories of amazing walks - A booklet of 25 pull-out walks every issue - with OS maps! - Information about hotels, pubs, cafes, tearooms. - Clear, jargon-free tests of walking kit And… every issue our readers tell their walking stories, help us devise new walks and shape the places we go to. If you love walking, this is the magazine for you.
Welcome
IN THIS ISSUE…
Find a great walk near you! • Highlights from the 27 fantastic walks in this issue…
The View • SIGHTS | SOUNDS | WONDERS | IDEAS | COOL STUFF
‘The more we value nature, the more we will protect it.’ • Novelist, podcaster, evangelist: Melissa Harrison talks walking, writing, and how she brought the Hidden Folk back to the world…
Nature in words • An at-a-glance guide to Melissa Harrison’s work…
I can’t wait to…
HAWORTH • Walk the ‘wiley, windy moors’ of Yorkshire’s Brontë Country and the mill valley backdrop to a much-loved adaptation of a children’s classic.
The word is…
Little legs, lots of ambition • Being on your first set of teeth is no barrier to Britain’s biggest walking challenge, as these guys are here to prove (especially when there are trees to climb, ponds to explore, crabapples to kick, and chocolate to devour!).
Young and fit = old and wise • Getting kids walking will boost their ability to think, remember and learn later in life.
Miles with the Midas touch • Each month our #minichallenges are a chance to add a little something to your miles. Here are the latest winners - next time it could he you walking off with a money-can’t-buy Golden Badge!
Do more on your miles & win treasure!
Your View
Views in brief
Where’s Kes? • Every month our favourite spaniel Kes goes walkies somewhere in the issue, and we want him back! Can you help find Kes?
Stuart Maconie • You can drive around a city to try and explore it, sure. But then you can try and eat a yogurt with a boat oar too.
LOST in a good book • Walk Into the worlds of out best-loved books.
The Enchanted Place • In which we go for a walk in the Hundred Acre Wood to celebrate a Very Significant Birthday…
The War of the Worlds
Plan your trip
A ‘desperate walker’ • Step into the world of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, the great romance where walking is a big deal…
The SAS Survival Handbook
The Da Vinci Code
HARRY POTTER and the Labyrinth of Auld Reekie • A wander through Edinburgh in search of The Boy Who Lived and The Writer Who Created Him.
POTTER’S TRAVELS
An adventure GREAT & SMALL • He was raised in Scotland and doubted anywhere else had such a thing as scenery. Then the world’s best-loved vet moved to Yorkshire, and began a love affair with Dales life that spawned legendary books - and what might be the best short long-distance path in the country.
Plan your trip
The walker’s bookshelf • To some it’s putting one foot in front of the other, to these writers it’s much, much more…
The DREAM MAN • Neil Gaiman’s works take us from Hell to the American Midwest and everywhere in between. And once, he took us to the South Downs…
‘A false step yonder means death to man or beast’ • 120 years after The Hound of the Baskervilles was unleashed in print, we sink our feet into the notorious patch of Dartmoor that inspired the story’s eeriest location.
Three Men in a Boat
Plan your…