152 articles found
Article · 22 May 2019
It is five years since Cycling in the Yorkshire Dales was first published. Its author, Harry Dowdell, considers what changes have taken place in the Dales and the world of cycling...
Article · 12 May 2019
Dipping a long sinuous finger into the Solent, the southernmost tip of the New Forest National Park forms part of the Solent Way, with Hurst Spit, an impressive shingle spit with...
Article · 10 May 2019
Cicerone's Clare Crooke, a talented designer and cartoonist, will be helping us celebrate our 50th anniversary by sharing some of her creations with us. Here is May's cartoon.
Article · 17 Apr 2019
Cicerone's Clare Crooke, a talented designer and cartoonist, will be helping us celebrate our 50th anniversary by sharing some of her creations with us. Here is April's cartoon.
Article · 13 Apr 2019
Rachel Crolla and Carl McKeating are co-authors of Cicerone’s Outdoor Adventures with Children – Lake District. Here, they describe a selection of their favourite routes to...
Article · 30 Mar 2019
Everyone has a favourite run, right? And surely that question is easy to answer for Pete Ellwood, who has just written a running guide, Trail and Fell Running in the Yorkshire Dales. Actually, it’s not.
Article · 24 Mar 2019
The Cotswold Way is a wonderful national trail, covering 102 glorious miles along the Cotswold escarpment between Chipping Campden and Bath. On the ridge the views are superb and...
Article · 20 Mar 2019
Cicerone's Clare Crooke, a talented designer and cartoonist, will be helping us celebrate our 50th anniversary by sharing some of her creations with us. Here is the latest cartoon on those sneaky snorers that follow us around.
Article · 20 Feb 2019
Peter Aylmer prepares for the annual event that stretches coast-to-coast across the Scottish Highlands, where one of the first challenges is to make it into the ballot. Here he...
Article · 13 Feb 2019
Cicerone's Clare Crooke, a talented designer and cartoonist, will be helping us celebrate our 50th anniversary by sharing some of her creations with us. Here is February's cartoon on a smelly situation familiar to us all.
Article · 26 Jan 2019
Cicerone's Clare Crooke, a talented designer and cartoonist, will be helping us celebrate our 50th anniversary by sharing some of her creations with us. Here is January's cartoon, based on The Mountain Hut Book by Kev Reynolds.
Article · 5 Dec 2018
Nick Burton retraces the route Oliver Cromwell and his troops took from Yorkshire to Lancashire in 1648 to take part in the Battle of Preston. Along the way he explores the...
Article · 17 Oct 2018
Lily Dyu explains the concept of this fast-growing niche in the trail running world.
Article · 9 Sept 2018
The Southern Upland Way has it all – elegant border towns, the Galloway hills and plenty of wild camping opportunities. If you choose this trail for your annual walking holiday...
Article · 18 Jul 2018
Nigel Kemp fulfils a long-held ambition to walk the Ridgeway long-distance trail from Avebury to Ivinghoe Beacon in this remote part of southern central England.
Article · 8 Jul 2018
Mark Sutcliffe discovers the Bay Cycleway, an epic new cycle route skirting the shifting sands of Morecambe Bay and linking the Furness Peninsulas, undiscovered gems of the...
Article · 7 Jul 2018
Malcolm Leatherdale, author of the Cicerone guidebook to the Test Way, explores the River Test and its important economic history. He visits plenty of mills along the way,...
Article · 9 May 2018
Our Hidden Gem of the month is Cycling in the Yorkshire Dales. With 25 routes on quiet lanes throughout the national park, including the Prologue stage of the 2014 Tour de France,...
Article · 15 Apr 2018
There are only nine mountains over 4000ft in the UK, and they are all in Scotland. It’s a big but manageable day to walk the four in Lochaber in one go but Alex Kendall gives it a try.
Article · 28 Mar 2018
Raad ny Foillan (The Way of the Gull) is a 98 mile footpath around the coastline of the Isle of Man. It was opened in 1986 to mark the island’s Heritage Year and owes its unique...