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This month Andrew Swift guides us through a delightful feature-packed walk, taking in five villages along the River Chew, with...
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Box once had a population of 1,300, but after Brunel’s Great Western railway opened in 1841 things were set to...
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Walking with a clear view of the skies and surveying the hills and the landscape stretching out beneath them is always a special experience for the walker, says Andrew Swift, who follows a skyline walk starting from Primrose Hill Although Bath’s Skyline Walk is justly popular, it is but one...
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One defining memory of lockdown is the peace, the sound of the trees rustling in the breeze and the birds...
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Andrew Swift takes us on a journey through the historic town of Warminster – choose either the full walk starting...
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Start the year off with a stimulating walk along an uplifting stretch of coastline. Andrew Swift makes his way along the breezy headland of Brean Down and encounters a Second World War observation post, a 19th-century fort and views over the bay Brean Down, which outlies The Mendips, jutting one...
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How are we affected by the environment in which we live? Martin Gledhill, senior teaching fellow at the department of...
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Avoiding wild country paths, muddy fields and dark forests this month, Andrew Swift wanders around the city investigating the pubs...
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While firmly established as Bath’s literary heroine, Jane Austen was not the city’s biggest fan. Andrew Swift recreates one of her walks and tries to work out why she was so unimpressed by a view over the city from Beechen Cliff A guidebook to Bath published just over a century...
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A succession of green lanes, a Norman castle, views over Salisbury Plain and a towpath with a dramatic flight of...
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Kirsten Elliott takes a walk in Lyncombe Vale and encounters what used to be its three pleasure gardens. The route...
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A 12th-century palace steeped in royal history, roaming alpacas and a couple of quaint country pubs are among the hidden gems that feature on Andrew Swift’s linear walking route from West Dean to Salisbury Clarendon Palace, three miles east of Salisbury, was established as a royal hunting lodge shortly after...