The Lich Way on Dartmoor, running from Bellever to Lydford was the first corpse road I ever followed, a long stretch across some of the wildest parts of the Moor. In fact, I helped to identify a probable early part of the route, correcting the way marked on the Ordnance Survey map, during my timeContinue reading “Walking the Corpse Roads”
Monthly Archives: November 2018
Up and around High Street
It’s twenty-one years since I was last atop High Street, that broad and considerable Lake District fell which carries one of England’s highest Roman roads. We’ve walked other stretches of High Street over the past few years, but not right to the top. It’s not your typical Roman road, of course. It bends more thanContinue reading “Up and around High Street”
Journeys In Forbidden Britain
THE COMPLEAT TRESPASSER Journeys into the Heart of Forbidden Britain by John Bainbridge WALK MAGAZINE SAID OF THE COMPLEAT TRESPASSER: “On a vagabonding tour through Britain’s most delightful countryside and forbidden tracts, Bainbridge charts the history of access and assesses the present state of the law. Villainous landowners feature; so do the likes of GHBContinue reading “Journeys In Forbidden Britain”
Walking to England’s Highest Roman Fort
Epiacum, the Romans called it, a second-century fort built to guard the empire’s interests in Pennine lead mining, and probably to provide backup for Hadrian’s Wall. It’s unique in being the only lozenge-shaped fort in Britain – rather than the more familiar playing-card shape, and has the most complex defences of any Roman fort yetContinue reading “Walking to England’s Highest Roman Fort”
Walking the Old Ways 