Walking from Romaldkirk

It’s funny isn’t it? You see a placename on a map or a signpost. You have no idea what the place is like. Then you go there and wonder why you never made the journey before? So let me put it on record. Romaldkirk, high above the banks of the River Tees in County Durham

Butchering Brighton’s Senior Public Space

Another disgraceful act of public vandalism… please help if you can… SAVE WHITEHAWK HILL NATURE RESERVE  Contact: Dave Bangs <bangs682@btinternet.com> T: 01273 620 815;  Eileen McNamara <eyemac60@yahoo.com>;  Anne Glow <anneglow774@yahoo.com>  Richard Bickers  <richardbickers@hotmail.co.uk> October 2018  WHITEHAWK HILL PROPOSED HIGH RISE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT  BUTCHERING BRIGHTON’S SENIOR PUBLIC SPACE A site for a major housing project has

A Waste Land Rebellion, walking to church and opium dealing

A village where the locals attacked a common land intrusion by their landowner, following a path where the “big house” servants walked to church, and tea importers with a sideline in opium dealing. The history you encounter on a five-mile walk in the countryside of Westmorland. We set out from the village of Crosby Ravensworth,

Footloose in Devon

My Devon book’s now out in paperback and on Kindle…    Here’s the blurb… “The novelist John Bainbridge has walked in the Devon countryside for over fifty years, and is well known as a writer and broadcaster on the county. In this miscellany of country essays, he explores many of the quiet corners of Devon,

Turnpikes, Toll Gates, Fly Agaric, the South Tyne and the Pennine Way

There was a wonderful cloud inversion as we drove up Hartside on the way to Garrigill, for a walk along the Pennine Way and the South Tyne Trail. One of the best we’ve seen for a long time, hiding the levels of the Eden and the Solway. The high Pennines around were high above the