Category: Short walks
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Bure Valley
It has been a long-held ambition of mine to combine a trip on the Bure Valley Railway, a narrow-gauge railway running steam-hauled passenger services for nine miles between Aylsham and Wroxham, with a walk on its accompanying footpath. Our recent trip to Norfolk has finally presented us with the chance to accomplish this.
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Overstrand
Hang about – what do you mean, Norfolk Coast Path extension?
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Celebrate Our Forests Day in Hitch Wood, north Hertfordshire
Yesterday was Celebrate Our Forests Day – part of a national campaign to preserve the UK’s forest estate in public ownership. We thought we’d join in with a visit to one of our nicest local woods, Hitch Wood. The idea of the day was to get people out and about in their local forest or…
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Looping the HOOP
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Categorised under: Short walks
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The Chiltern Hundred
This is the story of a challenge that is quite different from, say, walking the South West Coast Path or some other long-distance trail. Nevertheless, it needs planning, persistence and ingenuity as well as the ability to complete a walk of around 26 miles, although that can be sub-divided into three shorter sections if you…
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Flying west to Exmoor for the winter
Thoroughly fed up with the snow, the cold and the grey skies in the east of England, we fled west. A four-day break on Exmoor has given us an abundance of clear blue skies, mild weather and sunshine before we had to return home to the cold and damp and the refrozen slush on the…