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

CAUGHT OUR EYE

DID YOU KNOW?

THE WALKING POLL

TIME TRAVELLER

LOCAL HERO • Adventurer Alastair Humphreys has spent a year exploring his local map. He says it might be the greatest adventure of them all.

THREE QUESTIONS WE ASK EVERYONE

GUIDING LIGHTS

GLENRIDDING • A village that lies at the foot of Helvellyn, at the head of Ullswater, and at the start of a plethora of epic yomps among the eastern Lakeland fells.

The word is…

OH WHAT A YEAR we're going to have! • What's in store in your year of walking 1000 miles? The favourite photos of 1000 milers from the Class of 2023 are a reliable guide. It's going to be the year of…

It's always the perfect time to start • You've got 12 months from the day you start Walk 1000 Miles – whenever that is. And since every day's the first day of the rest of your life, it's always the absolute best time to begin.

The age of the Golden Badger is upon us • Take part in one of our mini-challenges this year and if we publish your entry, you'll win a money-can't-buy Golden Badger!*

Do even more with your miles!

This month's mini-challenges

Your View

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 • Coke? Tea? Laphroaig? John Smith's Extra Smooth? What is the perfect felltop refresher and why?

REACH FOR THE STARS • Only the sofa-bound imagine you can't see in the dark – on a walk you realise you can see far, far more.

Here comes THE SUN • 12 incredible facts about our nearest star…

The MOUNTAIN that weighed THE WORLD • The remarkable story of how a man and a mountain proved the earth wasn't hollow – and Newton was right about the planets.

path to the PLANETS • To get a proper feel for the sheer scale of the solar system and size of the planets you don't need a book, you need the Somerset Space Walk…

DON'T LOOK UP… • A meteorite can strike Earth at any time and any place – and while it's unlikely to fall at your feet, it never seems more likely than on a walk where it actually happened.

THREE MORE ROCK FALLS

Plan your trip

ONE GIANT LEAP • Discover Cornwall's part in the most famous footsteps in all time and space.

DID YOU KNOW?

A space ODYSSEY • The Quantocks nourished one of the universe's most fertile and prophetic imaginations. Walk here and you can see why.

Plan your trip

Cyswllt (contact) • Explore the Pembrokeshire coastline that's so sensational, even extraterrestrials are thought to walk here…

Aliens of the west

Plan your trip

Tea break

Walk & Stay • The Essential Guide on where to walk and stay in Britain

HEAD TORCHES • Expert advice on the kit that makes a...