This week's new walking route is: Kington - Almeley 4.6 miles in the north west Herefordshire countryside to Almeley, birthplace of John Oldcastle, early 15th Century war hero, politician, baron, Lollard "heretic" and treacherous rebel Check it out👇 walkmidlands.co.uk/2025/11/06/k...

This month's Walk Midlands Newsletter has been sent to subscribers Check it out for new walking routes in Derbyshire and Staffordshire, and four feature articles, and to subscribe👇 walkmidlandsnewsletter.substack.com/p/walk-midla...

This week's new walking route is: Ashbourne - Ilam Park 4.9 miles in the southernmost part of the Peak District, from Derbyshire across the River Dove into Staffordshire, ending at the truly gothic Ilam Park and Hall walkmidlands.co.uk/2025/10/30/a...

This week's new walking route is: Youlgreave - Tideswell 13.7 miles in the heart of the Derbyshire Peak District, primarily along the Limestone Way, via Monyash, Flagg and Miller's Dale Check it out👇 walkmidlands.co.uk/2025/10/23/y...

This week's new walking route is: Bakewell - Miller's Dale 12.3 miles in the heart of the Derbyshire Peak District, via Laithkill Dale, Monyash and Flagg Check it out👇 walkmidlands.co.uk/2025/10/16/b...

This week's new walking route is: Matlock - Youlgreave 8.5 miles following the Limestone Way upon onto the Peak District limestone plateau, past Winster and Robin Hood's Stride, to the large village of Youlgreave Check it out👇 walkmidlands.co.uk/2025/10/10/m...

This week's new walking route: Middle Mayfield - Thorpe 5.2 miles in the Staffordshire fringes of the Peak District, and across the River Dove into the National Park and Derbyshire's distinctive Thorpe Cloud Check it out👇 walkmidlands.co.uk/2025/10/02/m...

September 2025's Walk Midlands Newsletter went to subscribers this morning Ft. new walks in Derbyshire, Staffordshire and much, much more Check it out and subscribe👇 walkmidlandsnewsletter.substack.com/p/walk-midla...

A Three Day Walk on the Limestone Way: walkmidlands.co.uk/2025/09/27/a...

This week's new walking route is: Tideswell - Castleton 6.6 miles in the Derbyshire Peak District from the large village of Tideswell, to dramatically sited Castleton, where the Peak District's limestone south meets it's gritstone north Check it out👇 walkmidlands.co.uk/2025/09/25/t...

This week's new walking route is: Glossop - Hayfield 14.4 miles in the Derbyshire gritstone high peak, following the Pennine Way along the western edge of the mountainous Kinder Scout plateau Check it out👇 walkmidlands.co.uk/2025/09/19/g...

This week's new walking route is: Bamford - Upper Padley 11 miles along the gritstone edges that define the eastern edge of @peakdistrict and comprise the boundary between Derbyshire and South Yorkshire Check it out👇 walkmidlands.co.uk/2025/09/11/b...

This week's new walking route is: Kidsgrove - Biddulph 5.2 miles in Staffordshire, Cheshire boundary country, via Mow Cop, a village high up on a gritstone outcrop, site of the famed Mow Cop Castle Check it out👇 walkmidlands.co.uk/2025/09/04/k...

August 2025's Walk Midlands Newsletter is with subscribers Ft. a focus on the Cotswolds with new walks in Warwickshire and Worcestershire, plus much more like details of free Photo Walks in Staffordshire Moorlands (some led by me) Check it out👇 walkmidlandsnewsletter.substack.com/p/walk-midla...

This week's new walking route is: Ashchurch - Pershore 12.3 miles, up and over the highly prominent Bredon Hill, the most westerly northern part of the Cotswolds National Landscape Check it out👇 walkmidlands.co.uk/2025/08/28/a...

This week's new walking route is: Shipston upon Stour - Great Rollright 9.9 miles in the far south of Warwickshire, amidst the Cotswolds' hills and dales Check it out👇 walkmidlands.co.uk/2025/08/22/s...

This week's new walking route is: Stratford-upon-Avon - Mickleton 10.4 miles, primarily down the Stratford-upon-Avon Greenway in Warwickshire, to Mickleton, Gloucestershire's northernmost settlement in the shadow of the distinctive and enigmatic Meon Hill walkmidlands.co.uk/2025/08/14/s...

This week's new walking route is: Stratford-upon-Avon - Mickleton 10.4 miles, primarily down the Stratford-upon-Avon Greenway in Warwickshire, to Mickleton, Gloucestershire's northernmost settlement in the shadow of the distinctive and enigmatic Meon Hill walkmidlands.co.uk/2025/08/14/s...

Right now autumn seems a long way off But on 3rd October and 1st November I am delighted GRAIN have commissioned me to lead photo walks in the beguiling Staffordshire Moorlands (at Biddulph Moor and Ilam Park respectively) Part of a superb wider series: grainphotographyhub.co.uk/portfolio-ty...

This week's new walking route is: Moreton in Marsh - Broadway 9.6 miles in the heart of the northern Cotswolds Check it out👇 walkmidlands.co.uk/2025/08/08/m...

July 2025's Walk Midlands Newsletter is hitting subscriber's inboxes Ft. new walks in Derbyshire, Herefordshire, Nottinghamshire, Rutland and Staffordshire plus much, much more including an interview with Storie's curators Check it out👇 walkmidlandsnewsletter.substack.com/p/walk-midla...

This week's new walking route is: Cheddleton - Leek 4.9 miles in northern Staffordshire, primarily along the Caldon Canal Check it out👇 walkmidlands.co.uk/2025/07/30/c...

This week's new walking route is: Creswell - the Welbeck Estate Home of the Portland and Harley art galleries 2.2 miles in the Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire borderlands Check it out👇 walkmidlands.co.uk/2025/07/25/c...

This week's new walking route is: Matlock - Rowsley 5.2 miles along Derbyshire's River Derwent valley on the edge of the Peak District, to Rowsley, home of the remarkable Level contemporary arts centre Check it out👇 walkmidlands.co.uk/2025/07/18/m...

This week's new walking route is: Oakham - Uppingham 8 miles across countryside in England's smallest county Rutland, to its smallest town, famed for its plethora of contemporary art galleries Check it out👇 walkmidlands.co.uk/2025/07/10/o...

This week's new walking route: Hereford - Perton 11.5 miles in the centre of Herefordshire, including the nothermost part of the Wye Valley National Landscape, and the remote Canwood Gallery contemporary artspace Check it out👇 walkmidlands.co.uk/2025/07/03/h...

This month's Walk Midlands Newsletter was sent to subscribers yesterday morning Ft. a focus on the Midlands prehistoric stone circles with new walks in Derbyshire, Shropshire and Warwick plus much more Check it out and subscribe👇 walkmidlandsnewsletter.substack.com/p/walk-midla...

This week's new walking route is: Bakewell - Hartington 11.2 miles in the Derbyshire Peak District via Arbor Low, the site of one of the UK's 'best preserved' neolithic henges and stone circles Check it out👇 walkmidlands.co.uk/2025/06/26/b...

This week's new walking route is: Stiperstones - Chirbury 8.6 miles in westernmost Shropshire, via Mitchell's Fold, Shropshire's best known and most celebrated prehistoric stone circle, dramatically placed in front of Corndon Hill Check it out👇 walkmidlands.co.uk/2025/06/19/s...

This week's new walking route is: Hook Norton - Long Compton 6.6 miles in the north eastern Cotswolds via the rightly celebrated prehistoric megaliths known as the Rollright Stones Check it out👇 walkmidlands.co.uk/2025/06/12/h...

This month's Walk Midlands Newsletter went out to subscribers this morning Ft. new walks in Derbyshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, and much, much more Check it out and subscribe👇 walkmidlandsnewsletter.substack.com/p/walk-midla...

This week's new walking route is: Hadfield - Marsden 14.7 miles, primarily along the Pennine Way National Trail, across the northern part of the Peak District, up and down Black Hill, the northernmost point in Derbyshire and West Yorkshire's highest hill walkmidlands.co.uk/2025/05/29/h...

This week's new walking route is: Hay-on-Wye - Black Mountain A circular walk from Hay-on-Wye, out along Offa's Dyke Path, to the Black Mountain the 703 metre peak right on the boundary between Herefordshire & Powys (England and Wales). 11.5 miles Check it out👇 walkmidlands.co.uk/2025/05/22/h...

This week's new walking route: Chipping Campden - Broadway 6.2 miles, entirely on rhe Cotswolds Way, along the Cotswolds escarpment to its 2nd highest point Worcestershire's Broadway Hill and down to the village of Broadway Check it out👇 walkmidlands.co.uk/2025/05/15/c...

PBLJ11 is out now at www.poetrybirmingham.com. Have a look, have a read, buy a copy. Over 200 pages and full of interesting things. I think it's pretty good and want to know what you think. Write me and let me know 🤓

This week's new walking route is: Buxton - Macclesfield 11.7 miles from a spa town in the Derbyshire Peak District, up to the county boundary near Cheshire's highest peak, and then down to the historic market town of Macclesfield Check it out👇 walkmidlands.co.uk/2025/05/08/b...

This month's Walk Midlands Newsletter went to subscribers this morning. Ft. new walks in Derbyshire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, and much, much more Check it out and subscribe👇 walkmidlandsnewsletter.substack.com/p/april-2025...

This week's new walking route is: Goodrich - Monmouth 8 miles, primarily on level paths and country-lanes, from Goodrich in Herefordshire, past Symonds Yat and down the beautiful Upper Wye Gorge, to Monmouth, a historic Welsh town once in the Midlands: walkmidlands.co.uk/2025/04/30/g...

This week's new walking route is: Upton-upon-Severn - Tewkesbury 7.1 miles in the Worcestershire countryside along the River Severn, to Tewkesbury, the very historic town where the Avon meets the Severn just inside Gloucestershire Check it out👇 walkmidlands.co.uk/2025/04/24/u...

This week's new walking route is: Shipston-on-Stour - Hook Norton 10.2 miles in the Warwickshire Cotswolds, up and over the escarpment, to a picturesque Oxfordshire village famed for its traditional brewery Check it out👇 walkmidlands.co.uk/2025/04/17/s...

Past and Present is launching an e-newsletter. It will be published quaterly in-line with the journal's publishing schedule. The first issue will be published in May 2025. Subscribe below, and please share with your network: pastpresentsoc.substack.com/about

This week's new walking route is: Gobowen - Llangollen 9.7 miles from the Shropshire plain, into Wales, past @nationaltrust's Chirk Castle and then down from a high ridge to Llangollen, a tourist town on the Dee nestled in the Clwydian Range's foothills walkmidlands.co.uk/2025/04/10/g...

Three years and one week after I launched the site, Walk Midlands has just wracked up 100,000 lifetime views walkmidlands.co.uk

This week's new walking route: Hadfield - Holmfirth 15.9 miles, partially on the Pennine Way, up and over Black Hill in the northernmost part of Derbyshire. Then, into Yorkshire and down the Holme Valley to Holmfirth, overshadowed by TV twice over: walkmidlands.co.uk/2025/04/04/h...

This week's new walking route: Hadfield - Holmfirth 15.9 miles, partially on the Pennine Way, up and over Black Hill in the northernmost part of Derbyshire. Then, into Yorkshire and down the Holme Valley to Holmfirth, overshadowed by TV twice over: walkmidlands.co.uk/2025/04/04/h...

This week's new walking route is: Coseley - Dudley 3.1 miles in the northern part of the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley in the western Black Country Via the spectacular Wren's Nest famed for its rich fossil layers and industrial history Check it out👇 walkmidlands.co.uk/2025/03/27/c...

This month's Walk Midlands Newsletter went out to subscribers this morning Ft. a theme of gorges, ravines, and gullies, it includes new walks in: Derbyshire, Herefordshire, Staffordshire, and West Midlands, plus much more Check it out/subscribe👇 walkmidlandsnewsletter.substack.com/p/march-2025...

This week's new walking route is: Coseley - Dudley 3.1 miles in the northern part of the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley in the western Black Country Via the spectacular Wren's Nest famed for its rich fossil layers and industrial history Check it out👇 walkmidlands.co.uk/2025/03/27/c...

This week's new walking route is: Creswell - Creswell Crags 2 miles in north eastern Derbyshire from Creswell Railway Station to Creswell Crags, a spectacular and unexpected limestone ravine, whose archaeology tells the ice age's story Check it out👇 walkmidlands.co.uk/2025/03/13/c...

This week's new walking route: Ross-on-Wye - Symonds Yat East 7.6 miles through the southern Herefordshire countryside following the course of the River Wye Via Goodrich famed for its castle and ending at Symonds Yat at the top of the Upper Wye Gorge walkmidlands.co.uk/2025/03/06/r...