hiking
Around Britain with a theodolite: a celebration of the Ordnance Survey maps
With their finely drawn symbols for hedges, fences, ‘gentlemen’s seats’ and letterboxes, the first maps gave the intimacies of landscape a cosy storybook intensity
Let teenage boys discover the English countryside
When I was four, the progressive teachers at my primary school thought it would be wise to teach us how…
Low Life
The other week I turned up for the village walking club’s Monday hike. A dawn meet. Two cars. A 90-minute…
Real life
If the novelty of going for a walk doesn’t wear thin for the marauding masses soon, I am going to…
