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MAY is National Walking Month and Bradford Council is encouraging people to enjoy the health benefits of walking at the same time as exploring the district’s great scenery. Many people have taken up walking during the pandemic and with the longer days and better weather, this interest is likely to continue. The Council’s website has a number of downloadable self-guided walks. These take in beauty spots across the district. These include moorlands, canal towpaths, woodland and for something a little different, a ‘Fungus Foray’ at Raw Nook Nature Reserve or ‘Four Pubs and a Sewa...

There was a time when the thought of walking made me shudder. I grew up in Merstham, a one-pub village in England's south-east that sits on the motorway border between London and Surrey. My school was at the top of a wooded hill, accessible to vehicles only by two narrow country roads. But my school commute, a journey where I was more likely to encounter a bushy-tailed squirrel than another human being, was a little different. A new national network of walking routes will soon connect every town, city and thousands of villages across Britain Most days after class, I would swap my school sho...

Slow Ways wants to verify walking routes in the UK including Pembrokeshire. Photo: https://beta.slowways.org/ The Slow Ways initiative have set the challenge for 2021 to walk all 100,000kms of its identified routes and this includes walks in Pembrokeshire. Slow Ways is an initiative to create a national network of walking routes connecting all of Great Britain’s towns and cities as well as thousands of villages. Using existing paths, ways, trails and roads, people can use Slow Ways routes to walk or wheel between neighbouring places and combine them to create longer distance trips. ...

MEMBERS of the Bradford on Avon Walkers are Welcome group have signed up to help out with a project to review and use more than 7,000 miles of…

MEMBERS of the Bradford on Avon Walkers are Welcome group have signed up to help out with a project to review and use more than 7,000 miles of…