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Walking Winchester: Mystery and intrigue, extraordinary beauty and historic survivals
Fiona Reynolds walks in, through and around Winchester, a place which shows how city and country could come closer together.
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Fiona Reynolds: 'In bright sunshine and strong wind, it’s exhilarating to look down on the roofs of Great Malvern''
Elgar’s music resonates all over the Malverns as Fiona Reynolds revels in a walk to the Worcestershire Beacon.
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Avebury stone circle in the time of Covid: 'It’s so quiet I have the stone circles almost to myself'
Fiona Reynolds takes a walk through the normally-busy Neolithic stone circle, discovering things not normally noticeable among the crowds of a World Heritage Site.
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Fiona Reynolds: 'The day wears to a close, satisfied by a long walk and new discoveries close to home'
Fiona Reynolds recounts a pre-lockdown tale of a walk along the banks of the River Frome to where it meets the Severn.
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Packwood House to Baddesley Clinton, a snatched last walk of this lovely, if strange summer
Fiona Reynolds visits two National Trust properties on a glorious Indian summer’s day.
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Four summits, 12 miles, 5,000ft of climbing — and one unforgettable day in Snowdonia
Fiona Reynolds heads to Snowdonia for a day's walking. Twelve miles, four summits and 5,000ft of ascent later, the water’s cool and the air is clear... but she's very glad her husband is there to give her a lift back to the cottage.
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Walking the Uffington White Horse: 'A delicate carving in the chalk bounding gracefully across the hillside'
Fiona Reynolds takes a walk through Wiltshire and cannot help but feel the hand of history on the 6,000-year-old Ridgeway — not least at the famous Uffington White Horse.
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Cirencester Park, still full of 'the amiable simplicity of unadorned nature' 200 years after its creation
Fiona Reynolds strolls through Cirencester Park and beyond into the Gloucestershire countryside.
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The 18th century canal tunnel that was a miracle of engineering, now reclaimed by Nature
The coronavirus put an end to Fiona Reynolds’ big walking adventures, but a local round along a Cotswold canal proved a restorative.
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The Cambridgeshire Fens: 'A symbol of human skill and determination from more than 350 years ago'
Fiona Reynolds takes a walk through the floodplains of the Cambridgeshire Fens, which still perform the task they were designed to do by a 17th-century Dutchman.
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A walk through Badley Woods: 'My memory, is on fire, and I wander through the woods looking for places half-remembered, but intensely felt'
A return to scenes from a carefree childhood rekindles happy memories for Fiona Reynolds.
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Arnside and Silverdale: A landscape on par with the Lake District in its beauty and significance
People often miss the delightful landscape of Arnside and Silverdale as they hare off to the Lake District.
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Cnicht, Snowdonia: If you only climb one mountain in your life, it should be this one
The former director-general of the National Trust reveals which of the walks previously under her care was her favourite. Unsurprisingly, it involves the glorious routes on Snowdon.
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Walking The Burren, Co Clare: A place of curved hills, acres of open limestone and a landscape in which to lose oneself
Fiona Reynolds eats her words about regular walkers avoiding showers during the wettest months she can remember.
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Walking St Cuthbert's Way in late summer: Heather in late-summer emperor’s purple, lit up by the last burst of warmth
The Cheviots and St Cuthbert’s Way are the right setting for reflection and remembrance, as Fiona Reynolds finds on her latest walk.
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Walking the 79-mile Dales Way: 'The Wharfe is full and raging; we’re getting worried messages as people hear about the mayhem'
Torrential rain swells the River Wharfe as Fiona Reynolds embarks on a 79-mile walk along the Dales Way, just one step ahead of the floods.
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Walking Derby and the Derwent Valley, on a morning with 'dappled light on the river reflecting the monumental 18th-century mills'
Fiona Reynolds walks the Derwent Valley Heritage Way in Derbyshire, and is struck by the contrast between Man and Nature.
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A walk through the Forest of Bowland: 'I feel the immensity of the history of this place and am deeply moved by it'
A solitary dawn walk through the Forest of Bowland is a magical experience, says Fiona Reynolds.
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Climbing Ben Stack: A perfect, conical mountain whose paths are adorned with bluebells, violets and orchids
Fiona Reynolds takes time out during a trip to Scotland to climb one of its most beautiful little peaks: Ben Stack.
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Walking Exmoor: 'The views open out and there's just me, a lone figure in an immense, almost featureless landscape'
Fiona Reynolds walks in the footsteps of Lorna Doone and finds that there’s still a feeling of wilderness out on Exmoor.
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Fiona Reynolds: A walk on the Suffolk coast that brings home the true horror of the new plans for Sizewell
A few months after writing about a development at Otmoor, Fiona Reynolds visits the beautiful Suffolk coast — and can't quite believe how the proposed new work will tear up this idyllic landscape.
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Climbing the Sugar Loaf, the irresistibly perfect mountain in a ‘wild and lovely’ setting
The Sugar Loaf in Wales’s Black Mountains is a satisfying little peak to conquer, as Fiona Reynolds explains.
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Otmoor, the majestic Oxfordshire landscape that inspired Lewis Carroll, under threat once more
It's over a generation since Fiona Reynolds helped the fight to save Otmoor, a beautiful lowland wetland just outside Oxford. Now, it's under threat once more.
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Walking Hadrian's Wall: An epic walk from coast to coast and back in time
One of Britain’s most famous landmarks makes for an epic walk back in time – and it's a journey that Fiona Reynolds took this summer.
