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Cold Moor viewed from Cringle Moor (photo: Bernie McLinden)

Article · 17 Sept 2026

In conversation with Terry Marsh: Walking the Coast to Coast Path

Terry Marsh has been walking, writing and thinking about the northern fells for longer than most. His first Cicerone guide to the Coast to Coast Path appeared in 1993, and this...

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Article · 14 Sept 2026

In conversation with Julia Goodfellow-Smith: Walking in Worcestershire

Julia Goodfellow-Smith spent twelve years living in Malvern, exploring Worcestershire's hills, waterways and villages at walking pace before putting pen to paper on the Cicerone...

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Article · 19 Aug 2026

In conversation with Dan Hughes: Walking the Gloucestershire Way

We caught up with Dan Hughes about his new guidebook, Walking the Gloucestershire Way, covering the 152km (94 mile) trail from Chepstow to Tewkesbury. Dan has walked the footpaths...

Striding out along St Bees Head

Article · 11 Aug 2026

Coast to Coast Path: a complete planning guide

The Coast to Coast Path is a tantalising and inspiring excursion across northern England, running from the pebbled shores of St Bees on the Irish Sea to Robin Hood's Bay on the...

Alpine peaks and hut in the Austrian mountains

Article · 11 Aug 2026

Mountains for everyone: a conversation with Cat Mittins of the AAC (UK)

We caught up with Cat Mittins, Office Manager at the Austrian Alpine Club UK, to talk about the club's growth to more than 21,000 members, its ever-widening programme of...

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Article · 28 Jul 2026

Walking in Gower: a complete planning guide

This planning guide draws on Andy Davies' Cicerone guidebook to help you plan a walking trip to a peninsula that, as the author puts it, packs a glittering array of features into...

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Article · 27 Jul 2026

The Cicerone App

Isles of Scilly

Article · 24 Jul 2026

Walking on the Isles of Scilly: a complete planning guide

The Isles of Scilly are as close to a tropical paradise as anywhere gets in the British Isles: turquoise seas, white sand beaches and rugged granite headlands rising from the...

Chiltern Hills

Article · 23 Jul 2026

Walking in the Chilterns: a complete planning guide

Inspired by Steve Davison's Cicerone guidebook, this planning guide provides everything you need to know about walking in the Chiltern Hills, from where to stay and the best time...

Derbyshire

Article · 22 Jul 2026

Walking in Derbyshire: a complete planning guide

Derbyshire is a county the Victorian critic John Ruskin praised for its compact variety, a landscape small enough to take in at a glance: gritstone edges and moorland giving way...

West Pennine Moors

Article · 20 Jul 2026

Walking in the West Pennine Moors: a complete planning guide

This planning guide covers everything you need to plan walking on the West Pennine Moors, based on Terry Marsh's 30-walk Cicerone guidebook. Marsh knows this landscape intimately:...

Lune Valley

Article · 17 Jul 2026

Walking in the Lune Valley and Howgills: a complete planning guide

Set between the Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales, the Lune Valley "begs discovery," and this planning guide will help you find the right walk among the 40 circular day walks...

Forest of Bowland

Article · 17 Jul 2026

Walking in the Forest of Bowland and Pendle: a complete planning guide

For generations, the word 'Lancashire' conjured smoky mill towns rather than wild moorland, and Terry Marsh's Walking in the Forest of Bowland and Pendle sets out to correct that...

North Pennines

Article · 16 Jul 2026

Walking in the North Pennines: a complete planning guide

This is a region of superlatives: once the world's greatest producer of lead, home to England's most powerful waterfalls, and holder of several records for extreme weather. For...

North York Moors

Article · 14 Jul 2026

Walking in the North York Moors: a complete planning guide

The moors of the North York Moors National Park are of no great height, yet they offer a wonderful sense of spaciousness, with extensive views opening out under a big sky. Deep,...

County Durham

Article · 10 Jul 2026

Walking in County Durham: a complete planning guide

County Durham is, in Paddy Dillon's words, "a land of change": a richly wooded, ancient landscape running from the high Pennines in the west to a low cliff coast in the east,...

Uist and Barra

Article · 8 Jul 2026

Walking on Uist and Barra: a complete planning guide

This planning guide covers everything you need to know before walking on the Uists and Barra, islands that lie on the very edge of Europe, where the approach by air or sea only...

Crossing the Ribble on Halton Bridge (Photo: Geoff Cater)

Article · 7 Jul 2026

Cycling the Pennine Bridleway: a complete planning guide

Running along the spine of England from Rochdale to the edge of the Yorkshire Dales and on into Cumbria, the Pennine Bridleway was purpose-built for mountain bikers, and it shows:...

Jura

Article · 7 Jul 2026

Walking on Jura, Islay and Colonsay: complete planning guide

Tucked away off the Kintyre peninsula, some 80km (50 miles) west of Glasgow as the crow flies, Jura, Islay and Colonsay sit apart from the routes that draw most walkers north to...

Harris and Lewis

Article · 6 Jul 2026

Walking on Harris and Lewis: a complete planning guide

Getting to Harris and Lewis costs more, and takes longer, than a flight to the guaranteed warmth of southern Europe, and once you're there the weather is unlikely to cooperate for...