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Andrew Swift stays close to the city this month, following a short walk that discovers some less explored areas in...
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Rise with the skylarks high up on the Marlborough Downs. Andrew Swift visits Barbury Castle… Enjoy a visit to one...
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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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Explore the historic site where the Royalists were at loggerheads with the Parliamentarians at Lansdown in 1643. Andrew Swift guides...
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Andrew Swift goes in search of a mountain to climb and discovers one with enough craggy slopes and expansive views...
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A succession of green lanes, a Norman castle, views over Salisbury Plain and a towpath with a dramatic flight of 16 locks are the highlights of Andrew Swift’s circular walk from Devizes This month’s walk is ideal for a sunny autumn day. Six and a half miles long, it starts...
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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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Andrew Swift takes us on a journey through the historic town of Warminster – choose either the full walk starting...
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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 magnificent structures, ancient standing stone monuments and some spectacular scenery as you go Much of this eight-mile walk follows the course of the River Chew, along with a couple of...
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This enchanting village is rich in history, Andrew Swift takes you on a tour Picture a village at the end...
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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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Andrew Swift visits the site of dozens of wrecks at Purton in Gloucestershire, which locals are fighting to preserve A relatively short walk for what can be a wet month, which traverses terrain that is both flat and relatively mud free. Boring, however, it isn’t, for in the space of...