Fiona Reynolds

Walking the Quantock Hills: 'The last sprigs of heather speak of Coleridge's never bloomless furze'

Colour never dies in the Quantock Hills, a landscape that inspired great poetry — and which catches Fiona Reynolds just the same.

The wonder of walking in Edinburgh: 'What an extraordinary city this is!'

Fiona Reynolds takes a long walk across the Scottish capital and sees it in a new light.

Walking on Dartmoor: 'Ponies, sheep and cattle have created an extraordinary upland landscape, but there’s now fear among the commoners'

The people who manage the evocative Dartmoor landscape are facing challenges, says Fiona Reynolds.

Walking Thor's Cave and the Manifold Valley: 'A corner of England I’ll swear hardly anyone knows'

Attractively no-nonsense, scattered with ruins both medieval and industrial, the Staffordshire Moorlands should be better known. Fiona Reynolds talks a walk through this extraordinary land.

Tracking the Norfolk spoonbills: 'We’ve hardly walked a mile before a string of three white birds flies towards us'

Fiona Reynolds visits the wilds of Norfolk to find spoonbills — and discovers a remarkable conservation success story.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Cnicht, Snowdonia: If you only climb one mountain in your life, it should be this one

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.

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.