10 - 15 Miles, Arts and Heritage Destinations, Countryside Rambles, Hills and Uplands, History and Heritage, National Landscapes (AONBs), Severn Basin, Suburban Strolls, Walks, Welsh Marches, Worcestershire

Worcester – Great Malvern

Walk from the heart of Worcester across the River Severn and River Teme to Great Malvern, before crossing the rural Severn Vale. Continue reading Worcester – Great Malvern

5 - 10 Miles, Arts and Heritage Destinations, Countryside Rambles, History and Heritage, Leicestershire, Midlands Contemporary, Severn Basin, Suburban Strolls, Walks, Warwickshire

Rugby – Lutterworth

Walk from Rugby to Lutterworth famed for its connections via St. Mary’s church to the 14th Century radical theologian John Wycliffe (father of Lollardism), and its rare, well preserved late medieval doom painting. Continue reading Rugby – Lutterworth

5 Miles or Less, Arts and Heritage Destinations, Countryside Rambles, Herefordshire, History and Heritage, Severn Basin, Walks, Welsh Marches

Kington – Almeley

Walk from Kington in nothern Herefordshire south across gently hilly countryside to Almeley, the home village of John Oldcastle, early 15th Century war hero, rebel baron and Lollard heretic imortalised as Shakespeare’s Falstaff. Continue reading Kington – Almeley

5 - 10 Miles, Arts and Heritage Destinations, Countryside Rambles, Hills and Uplands, Hills and Uplands, History and Heritage, Outwith, Severn Basin, Staffordshire, Suburban Strolls, Trent Basin, Walks

Kidsgrove – Biddulph

Walk from Kidsgrove to Biddulph via Mow Cop the village in two counties (Staffordshire and Cheshire) that stands high up on a gritstone ridge overlooked by the famed Mow Cop Castle folly. Continue reading Kidsgrove – Biddulph

10 - 15 Miles, Arts and Heritage Destinations, Countryside Rambles, Hills and Uplands, Hills and Uplands, History and Heritage, National Landscapes (AONBs), Outwith, Severn Basin, Walks, Worcestershire

Ashchurch – Pershore

Walk from Ashchurch near Tewkesbury up and over Bredon Hill, a dramatic outlying northwestern limb of the Cotswolds in southern Worcestershire, to the historic town of Pershore on the River Avon plain. Continue reading Ashchurch – Pershore

5 - 10 Miles, Arts and Heritage Destinations, Countryside Rambles, Hills and Uplands, History and Heritage, Midlands Contemporary, National Landscapes (AONBs), Outwith, Severn Basin, Walks, Warwickshire

Shipston on Stour – Great Rollright

Walk across the Warwickshire Cotswolds from Shipston-upon-Stour via Cherington and Whichford. Ends at Great Rollright in Oxfordshire famed for its proximity to the Rollright Stones. Continue reading Shipston on Stour – Great Rollright

10 - 15 Miles, Arts and Heritage Destinations, Countryside Rambles, Hills and Uplands, History and Heritage, Midlands Contemporary, National Landscapes (AONBs), Outwith, Severn Basin, Walks, Warwickshire

Stratford-upon-Avon – Mickleton

Walk through rural south west Warwickshire along the Stratford-upon-Avon Greenway to Quinton and Mickleton beneath the highly prominent, deeply enigmatic, Meon Hill the most northwestern part of the Cotswolds escarpment. Continue reading Stratford-upon-Avon – Mickleton

5 - 10 Miles, Arts and Heritage Destinations, Countryside Rambles, Hills and Uplands, History and Heritage, National Landscapes (AONBs), Outwith, Severn Basin, Walks, Worcestershire

Moreton in Marsh – Broadway

Walk from Moreton in Marsh in northermost Gloucestershire, across the northwest Cotswolds to Broadway Hill in Worcestershire, which stands above the picturesque eponymous village of Broadway Continue reading Moreton in Marsh – Broadway

10 - 15 Miles, Arts and Heritage Destinations, Canals and Rivers, Countryside Rambles, Herefordshire, Hills and Uplands, Midlands Contemporary, National Landscapes (AONBs), Severn Basin, Walks, Welsh Marches

Hereford – Perton

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

5 - 10 Miles, Arts and Heritage Destinations, Countryside Rambles, Hills and Uplands, History and Heritage, National Landscapes (AONBs), Severn Basin, Shropshire, Walks, Welsh Marches

Stiperstones – Chirbury

Walk from the village of Stiperstones across the western Shropshire countryside to Chirbury near the Welsh border via Mitchell’s Fold the county’s best known Bronze Age stone circle. Continue reading Stiperstones – Chirbury