Walk along the Manifold Way, a highly significant former light railway route along the River Hamps and River Manifold limestone gorges in the Staffordshire Peak District, from Waterhouses to Hulme End. Continue reading Waterhouses – Hulme End
Walk between the west Worcestershire villages of Martley and Knightwick crossing meadows with views towards the Malvern Hills, through the wooded Ankerdine Common, and down Ankerdine Hill. Continue reading Martley – Knightwick
Walk from Stone railway station south through the mid-Staffordshire countryside, and across the unusual surviving Stafford Common, a town common, to Stafford town centre. Continue reading Stone – Stafford
Walk from the centre of Walsall into former mining country along the McClean Way greenway, and across the remarkable surivivals that are Pelsall and Pelsall North Common, before crossing the Staffordshire countryside to reach Cannock. Continue reading Walsall – Cannock
Walk from Oldbury, following the Midlands Watershed Ridge (the most visible expression of the divide between the Severn and Trent catchment areas) through the Black Country and Woodgate Valley to the Kit’s Well the only river flowing into the Severn rising inside Birmingham. Continue reading Oldbury – Kitswell
Walk from the Derbyshire market town of Ashbourne to the picturesque, deeply gothic, Ilam Park in the Staffordshire Peak District situated on the River Manifold near where it joins the River Dove. Continue reading Ashbourne – Ilam Park
Walk from Cheddleton along the Caldon Canal to Leek, a market town on the edge of the Peak District known as “the Queen of the Moorlands”. Continue reading Cheddleton – Leek
Walk from Hereford to Perton at the northernmost point of the Wye Valley National Landscape, via Checkely, home of the Canwood Gallery contemporary arts gallery and sculpture park. Continue reading Hereford – Perton
Walk primarily along the Pennine Way from Hadfield in Derbyshire at the foot of Longdendale up and over the Black Hill, West Yorkshire’s highest point, to Marsden just across the northern boundary of the Peak District National Park. Continue reading Hadfield – Marsden
Walk along the Upper River Wye Valley Gorge from Goodrich famed for its castle, via Symonds Yat East and The Biblins, to the historic Welsh market town of Monmouth. Continue reading Goodrich – Monmouth
