Country Walking

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

5 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS MONTH THINGS

Land's End

Welcome to the Natural Health Service • Meet the passionate walker taking the lead on the future of Britain's National Trails.

Some things are worth celebrating • £5 Like walking 1000 miles and your membership of biggest & best community in the outdoors! walk1000miles.co.uk/shop

THE SHORTLIST REVEALED! • Our judges have been blown away by your entries, but the shortlist has been revealed. Winners announced from 28 September!

THE WYE VALLEY • Admired by poets and artists for centuries, the lower reaches of the River Wye meander gracefully between wooded hills, overlooked by castles, abbeys and riverside villages.

SIZE DOESN'T MATTER • As these 1000-mile challengers prove, walking is magic medicine no matter what size the dose!

Short walks benefit you more than you think

‘Off all the pills and feeling chilled!’ • Dave Gent from Swavesey retired in 2021 uptight, in pain and fed up. Then he saw a copy of Country Walking magazine…

Walk more & love where you live! • Eager to make use of some scraps of time Alice discovered an addictive mile-munching method.

The collectors • Collecting things on your walks can provide yet more motivation for your miles – and a powerful source of precious memories. Here are some ideas we collected from the community…

New in the shop

Carry on 1000-miling! • It's a seriously silly business winning one of our mini-challenges – designed to give you even more mile-munching motivation. Enter this month and you could win a money-can't-buy Golden Badge!

Do more and win treasure! • Spice up your miles with one of our quests, post the result in the Facebook group and our favourite 20 will win a Golden Badge! You have until 12 October for this crop. Got a suggestion for a challenge? Email us! walk1000miles@countrywalking.co.uk

Your View

Views in brief

Stuart Maconie • From the Peak to the Pennines, the Napoleonic Wars seem to have spawned more hilltop memorials than any other conflict.

Rachel Hewitt • Like so many people, I have turned to walking in times of grief. Not to shy away from pain, but to look it in the face and keep breathing.

Enjoy Life ON THE EDGE • You don't have to be an adrenaline junkie for the word ‘edge’ to be one of the most exciting of all to find on the map…

Plan your trip

More GREAT EDGES • From airy Lakeland rock to myth-soaked Cheshire sandstone, here are seven edges with a licence to thrill.

THE TIME TRAVELLER'S TRAIL • The Ridgeway offers a six-day ticket to thousands of years of British history, and some of its loveliest walking country. You won't be the first to pass…

Plan your trip

The wonder of TREES • Providing so much of the character and company of any walk, for CW's photographer trees are a source of wonder and wisdom that takes root...