The pace of walking frees the mind and calms the body.
By its history, its customs, the very size and the shape, the island of UK breeds walkers. Long walks make a lovely holiday. There are a pilgrimage of a kind, as walking is an inner journey as well as a timeline.
Here is a list of the 20 top walking sites in the UK:
1. London: the Thames Path
2. Buckinghamshire: Great Missenden
3. Surrey: the Wheald
4. Somerset: the Quantocks
5. Corwall: Roseland Peninsula
6. Conwall: Porthcurno and Logan Rock
7. Rowys: the Black Mountains
8. Gower Peninsula: Rhossili Down
9. Hereforshire: Golden Valley
10. Herefordshire-Powys: Offa’s Dyke
11. Staffordshire: the Roaches
12. Lancashire: the Hoddey Valley
13. Lake District: Borrowdale
14. Killmartin Glen: Argyllshire
15. Northumberland: Dunstanburgh
16. Durham
17. North Yorkshire: Kettlewell
18. Nortfolk: Snettisham
19. Essex-Suffolk: Constable Country
20. Cambridgeshire: Grantchester